Many of them fell into the slough of pauperism, and were saved from starvation by public doles.

The earliest practical trial of electrical telegraphy was made in 1837 on the London and North Western Railway, and the first public line under the patent of Wheatstone and Cooke was laid from Paddington to Slough on the Great Western Railway in 1843.

It could not be otherwise if England was to emerge from the slough in which Mary had left it.

a being who has not yet shed the slough of an animal shape, but combines the powers - natural and preternatural - of some animal with those of a man.

This tract, the remnant of an ancient forest, the more beautiful because of the undulating character of the land, lies west of the road between Slough and Beaconsfield, and 2 m.