bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
I’m no bogle, but you’d better not ask what I am.
From Bluebeard by Johnson, Clifton
To-day the bogle wags, a thing of jest And open scorn; the very pipits mock it; A jenny wren, I'm told, has built her nest In one torn pocket!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various
“Na,” said he; “it will be made by a bogle and her wanting ta heid upon his body.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
An' aa saw theer t' bogle—thee knaws, t' bogle o' Bleacliff Tarn; an' she turned hersel, an' she spoak to me!'
From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
