bogy

Example Sentences

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Bogy took his pal down to Tamarisk and proceeded to rip off an impeccable 73 after not playing for two months.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 30, 2020

He had not given 19 hie mistress because be was afraid of being punished by some sort of Holy Bogy, but he had been confronted by two people whom he loved.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Shell fire, speaking generally, is the "Bogy of Battle" to those not accustomed to it.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

He certainly was an alarming object, pulling those grimaces in the blue brandy glare; and unpleasantly like a picture of Bogy himself with horns and a tail, in a juvenile volume upstairs.

From The Brownies and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

The majority of the commission consisted of Messrs. Jones, Bogy, Willard, Bland and Groesbeck.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 by Boutwell, George S.