bogle
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Now for a bogle story in the gloamin'!'
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
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 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
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