bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
I’m no bogle, but you’d better not ask what I am.
From Bluebeard by Clifton Johnson
This bogle stood at the doorway when we ourselves went to have our first Turkish bath.
From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables
These oppressed yet dreaded fugitives obtained, naturally enough, the character of the German spirits called Kobold, from which the English goblin and the Scottish bogle, by some inversion and alteration of pronunciation, are evidently derived.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
The bogle that comes to a house at night and throttles the goodman is a creature more hardy than the dragon, and more persevering.
From Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature by W. P. Ker
