bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
He may be a ghost, or a bogle, or a wraith," she said; "or he may only be a harmless Brownie.
From Tales From Scottish Ballads by Allan Stewart
The name Bangweolo is applied to the great mass of water, though I fear that our English folks will bogle at it or call it Bungyhollow.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
Ghaist nor bogle shalt thou fear; Thou’rt to love and heaven sae dear, Nocht of ill may come thee near, My bonnie 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 Robert Burns
Whether there was among them 'ae winsome wench and wawlie,' is more than I can say; but most probably there was, or the bogle would scarcely have been so zealous in the cause.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
