bugbear

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They swatted aside the Jackets, their bugbear from a season ago, and the Bruins — the team that appeared most equipped to give them trouble in the East — like so many mosquitos, needing just five games to beat each of them.

THE TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING FINALLY DELIVERED ON THEIR STANLEY CUP POTENTIALTERRENCE DOYLESEPTEMBER 29, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever.

TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.

The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life.

PATCHWORKANNA BALMER MYERS

A mere bugbear to frighten children, believe me; and never yet alarmed a brave man.

ROOKWOODWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH

As for the Tennessee land, so long a will-o'the-wisp and a bugbear, it became tangible property at last.

MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

This bogie, phantom, bugbear, is a supposed influence called "Reaction."

BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 64, NO. 393, JULY 1848VARIOUS

Or it may be a woman, who finds her household duties, which had hitherto been a pleasure to her, becoming a bugbear.

NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW TO AVOID THEMCHARLES DAVID MUSGROVE

This garden was the rector's delight, but to my restless seven years it was a sort of gay-colored and ever-threatening bugbear.

EARTH'S ENIGMASCHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

Henceforward I began to be anxious of the bugbear Responsibility, and to realise what a soul-throttling thing it is.

THE GOLDEN AGEKENNETH GRAHAME

He was new bugbear recently set up, and more haunting than even a gunpowder treason in the cellars!

COUNTESS KATECHARLOTTE M. YONGE

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