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  • Hest Bank to Ulverston by the route _brogged_ out by the guides; the brogs being branches of trees stuck in the sand to mark where the treacherous way was safest; a dreary distance of about 14 miles. '

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • An eye-witness describes Charles's costume at this time as "a tartan short coat and vest of the same, got from Lady Clanranald; his nightcap all patched with soot-drops, his shirt, hands, and face patched with the same; a short kilt, tartan hose, and Highland brogs."

    Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Allan Fea 1908

  • Swift and all but soundless on their quiet brogs they paced along: to startle the deer while the hunter was far off, might be to drive him within range of his shot.

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

  • Swift and all but soundless on their quiet brogs they paced along: to startle the deer while the hunter was far off, might be to drive him within range of his shot.

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Yet if evolution is true, one might reasonably expect to hear of extraordinary displacements upsetting the rhythm and pattern of the four seasons as well as to see evolved bird / frogs (brogs?) nesting in terraced penthouse nests.

    The Reality Check LindaKimball 2009

  • Yet if evolution is true, one might reasonably expect to hear of extraordinary displacements upsetting the rhythm and pattern of the four seasons as well as to see evolved bird / frogs (brogs?) nesting in terraced penthouse nests.

    The Reality Check 2009

  • a tailor like myself, so numb with cauld, that instead of driving the needle through the claith, he brogs it through his ain thumb -- then, fient

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • Their trained eyes instinctively marked the slight depressions in the sand and the line of brogs, or half-hidden trees, that guide travellers across by what is really the safest route, although it may seem to take unnecessary loops and curves. [

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

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