Lexicographical Neighbors of Bogles
Literary usage of Bogles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"I did not mean to assert that " bogles" meant " corpses (or emanations from them),
etc. etc. . . . till corruption had completed its work", for this would ..."
2. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1832)
"Some farther correspondence passed with bogles and Co. and with Gillies, but the
proceeds of the goods never having been received from Jones, Smith raised ..."
3. Archibald Constable and His Literary Correspondents: A Memorial by Thomas Constable (1873)
"... bogles" —Publication of Quentin Durward—Mr. Cadell quotes a note from Sir
Walter Scott to Mr. Ballantyne, and gives his own views as to the future. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"... like old coat or castor, On scarecrow cut a caper—• ( For scarecrows, alias
bogles, Have always gone barefooted ; And were they e'er to sport я shoe, ..."
5. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"... as their ancestors had no doubt done, that the sound " was the humming o'
bogles i' the dark green wud." But I discovered the " boggles. ..."
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