bogle

Example Sentences

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

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

This bogle stood at the doorway when we ourselves went to have our first Turkish bath.

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

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

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