bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
O happy be the woodbine bower, Nae nightly bogle make it eerie; Nor ever sorrow stain the hour, The place and time I met my dearie!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
But what most of them felt was perhaps rather broadly expressed by Maitland when he called religion 'a bogle of the nursery.'
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
The bogle that comes to a house at night and throttles the goodman is a creature more hardy than the dragon, and more persevering.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by Ker, W. P.
The name Bangweolo is applied to the great mass of water, though I fear that our English folks will bogle at it or call it Bungyhollow.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.