bogle

Example Sentences

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

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

For though, whaure’er yoursel’ may be, We’ve just to turn an’ glisk a wee, An’ Rab at heel we’re sh�re to see Wi’ gladsome caper:— The bogle of a bogle, he— A ghaist o’ paper!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

That bogle looked very small indeed as we strode out again, about an hour afterwards.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Stables, Gordon

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

"Well, now tell us your own bogle tale!" she said—"And David and I will play the angels!"

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie