bugbear
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From Time Magazine Archive
“It’s either foxes or a Blood-Suckin’ Bugbear, an’ I need the headmaster’s permission ter put a charm around the hen coop.”
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
The very name of Drake Was a Bugbear to fright Children; Nurses still'd Their little Spanish Nynnyes when they cryde "Hush! the Drake comes."
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
Thou Bugbear of the Law," to speak and say why he stands there:— "Tell them, it was, because he was too bold, And told those truths which should not have been told!
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
Prithee, no more of these Flights; for our Time's but short, and we must fall into Business: Do you think we can agree on that same terrible Bugbear, Matrimony, without heartily Repenting on both sides.
From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess
Vocabulary lists containing bugbear
"The Minister's Black Veil," Vocabulary from the short story
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"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," Vocabulary from the political argument
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Four Star Words from Annie Proulx's "Rough Deeds"
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