bogle
Example Sentences
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“Castle Craig,” this bogle of a railway employee repeated laconically.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Now for a bogle story in the gloamin'!'
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
The bogle made lawful prize of the contents of the cart.
From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock
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
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
