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

Two personages of our popular mythology, however, seem Slavonic—Old Bogy and Old Scratch.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

The majority, comprising Messrs. Jones, Bogy, Willard, Groesbeck, and Bland, recommended the remonetisation of silver and the recourse to a fresh international conference.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur

Syme remembered those wild woes of yesterday as one remembers being afraid of Bogy in childhood.

From The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)