bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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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
The same flag that keeps aff a witch may easily fetch a bogle.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
Though perhaps all human life is only a bogle tale!
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie
What gars ye turn awa yer head, as though ye'd seen a bogle?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.