bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
What gars ye turn awa yer head, as though ye'd seen a bogle?
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 by Various
To-day the bogle wags, a thing of jest And open scorn; the very pipits mock it; A jenny wren, I'm told, has built her nest In one torn pocket!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various
Great was the surprise o' baith at the unexpected sight; they were maist as frightened as if they'd seen a bogle.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
Lang syne, when I was a callant in the south country, I mind there was an auld, bald bogle in the Peewic Moss.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Stevenson, Robert Louis
