bogle

Example Sentences

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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Maybe," answered the doctor, "but it's a loup they often bogle at.

From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Lang syne, when I was a callant in the south country, I mind there was an auld, bald bogle in the Peewic Moss.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis

He may be a ghost, or a bogle, or a wraith," she said; "or he may only be a harmless Brownie.

From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Stewart, Allan

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