bogle

Example Sentences

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

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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 looked pale, and almost fleered out of his wits, so I made sure he had seen the bogle that my granam used to frighten us with.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

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.

I’m no bogle, but you’d better not ask what I am.

From Bluebeard by Johnson, Clifton