bogle

Example Sentences

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

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Though perhaps all human life is only a bogle tale!

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Corelli, Marie

I’m no bogle, but you’d better not ask what I am.

From Bluebeard by Johnson, Clifton

He looked pale, and almost fleered out of his wits, so I made sure he had seen the bogle that my granam used to frighten us with.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

O happy be the woodbine bower, Nae nightly bogle make it eerie; Nor ever sorrow stain the hour, The place and time I met my dearie!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert