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"ref": "1837, J. Augustine Wade, Darby the Swift, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume 2, page 70",
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"text": "[…] the large peats generally employed for roofing bothies and pig-sties. These large peats are called \"scraghs,\" the Gaelic name which is also applied to the large flat bonnet worn by the natives.",
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"ref": "1912, “The Sin of Conn Moor”, in The Living Age, volume 273, page 625:",
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"ref": "1912, Miriam Alexander, Beyond the Law, page 166:",
"text": "He sat now, goose-quill in hand, ink-horn by his side, looking out west over the dark brown sweep of the bog. He loved every inch of it—every rush-fringed pool that mirrored the sky; every dark green gorse bush, tipped with gold, ashimmer with the fairy lace of wet cobwebs; the scraghs vivid as emerald velvet, the little streams that held pools of sunlight in their amber depths and laughed to themselves as they ran.",
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"text": "\"You are very muddy—shockingly muddy,\" said the Smithereen, with the air and tone of a man who has made a discovery. \"You'll really have to go home.\" He came like Agag to the edge of the scragh as he spoke, and held out his crop, by the aid of which Noreen was presently got ashore. […] Noreen […] surveyed the shower-bath of bog-mud which rained from every part of her person.",
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