bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
"Well, now tell us your own bogle tale!" she said—"And David and I will play the angels!"
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
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 John Roby
Boggle, bog′l, v.i. to stop or hesitate as if at a bogle: to start with fright: to make difficulties about a thing: to equivocate.—n. a scruple, objection: a bungle.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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
