The vagrant and erratic movements of "Noman" were, somehow or another, connected with the marvellous adventures and appearances in the "boggart chamber.
I have told ye oft o' the sights and terrible things that have visited me i' the boggart chamber, and that the ghost begged hard for a victim.
Some thought it was, for it was called the Boggart's peep-hole; but others said that they had remembered it long before the shrill laugh of the Boggart was heard in the house.
Jack and little Robert shall sleep o'er the cart-house, and Boggart may rest or wriggle as he likes when he is by himsel'.
Whether or not the aperture had been formed by the Boggart as a peep-hole to watch the motions of the family, I cannot pretend to say.
They are said to have turned back, but the boggart and they afterwards came to a better understanding, though it long continued its trick of shooting the horn from the knot–hole.
Alarmed by the sound, Crouch stopped, and questioned the lady as to its cause; but receiving no satisfactory explanation from her, he bade her ride quickly on, affirming it must be the boggart of the clough.
I tell you, some boggartfights for the Waynes of Marsh, and always has done.
Begow, I thowt 'twar a rightboggart this time," he muttered.
Boggart was the Yorkshire sprite, and the Boggart commonly disliked children, and stole their food and playthings; wherein he differed from his kindly kindred.
In one second I saw the face of the Boggart flash up at me full of hideous triumph, and I felt the grip of his arms about my waist.
So t' Boggart thowt to ha' hugged thee down Pothoile!
Boggart-hole is thought by some to be a mistaken and enlarged spelling of Boggart Hall, the appellation of a house near the head of the clough, once and for a long while of evil repute as the home of an unclean spirit.
This boggartis invariably looked upon as the forerunner of death, and it is supposed that only the relatives of persons about to die, or the unfortunate doomed persons themselves, ever see the apparition.
The well-known legend of the Boggart of Townley Hall, with its warning cry of 'Lay out, lay out!
Surely, thought the turtle-doves, the Boggart is coming forth with some new trick, and they fled in terror.
While we were resting at the farm-house at the head of the clough, I asked a buxom maid if she had ever seen a boggart in the neighbourhood.
The story went that this boggart or ghost was at length "laid" by some magical or religious ceremony in Walton Church yard.
Plant said he knew where the finest specimens of the herb grew, and led the way to the "Boggart Ho' Clough," referred to in the preceding chapter.
But Mr. Boggarteventually returned to his old avocations, and midnight noises again disturbed the repose of the inmates of the haunted house.
I remember in my youth hearing a story of a headless boggart that haunted Preston streets and neighbouring lanes.
Some thought it was, for it was called the boggart's peep-hole; but others said that they had remembered it before the shrill laugh of the boggart was heard in the house.
Whether or not the aperture had been formed by the boggart as a peep-hole to watch the motions of the family, I cannot pretend to say.
There is a story of a Yorkshire boggart who teased the family so much that the farmer made up his mind to leave the house.
Yes," said the farmer, "the boggart torments us so that we must go.
I'd never let the boggartin with my own good-will!
Likewise, one cannot get rid of a boggart by going from here to there, for it is sure to be in the cart with the household things.
Still the boggart did his work well, and so Farmer Griggs put up with his evil ways as long as he could.
Even now, they say, you may find a boggartin some houses.
A boggart is a small imp that lives in a man's house, unseen by any one, doing a little good and much harm.
As for the poor little children, they were always crying and complaining that the boggart did this and the boggart did that; that he scraped the butter from their bread and pulled the coverlids off of them at night.
We were forced tull it, neighbor, for that black boggart torments us so that there was no rest night or day for it.
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Now on the wain was a tall, upright churn; as soon as Georgie had ended his speech, the lid of the churn began to clipper-clapper, and who should speak out of it but the boggart himself.
I now adopt the same course with regard to the story of "The Boggart of Godley Green.
It was widely believed that had Mr. Brooks continued his visits and his prayers long enough, the boggart would have been effectively "laid.
The place is uncanny, and the boggart is always there.
I can remember the old woman during her lifetime, and the boggart is just like her.
And with the house and grounds mentioned in the story of "The Boggart of Godley Green" I am especially familiar.
While he looked the boggart vanished, and then the man took to his heels.
There is a certain house in that part of the township of Godley known as the Green, which is said to be haunted by a boggart in the shape of an old lady, who formerly belonged to the house.
In it there is many a boggart story, brought down from the past, many a spot of fearful repute among native people.
We now proceed to Yorkshire, where theBoggart and the Barguest used to appear in by-gone days.
The narrator is the same person who told the precedingBoggart story.
The Boggart at length proved such a torment that the farmer and his wife resolved to quit the house and let him have it all to himself.
In the house of an honest farmer in Yorkshire, named George Gilbertson, a Boggart had taken up his abode.
He seems to unite in his person the Boggartand Barguest of Yorkshire.
In some parts of the country, instead of Jenny Green-teeth, the boggart of the ponds is a masculine water-demon called Rawhead (Yks.
They hardly belong to the boggart tribe of spectres whose business it is to terrify mortals with gruesome sounds and horrid shapes.
One of the best ways of laying a boggartwas to beguile it into consenting to keep away ‘while hollies are green’.
The popular story of "The Boggart Flitting" is common to both Lancashire and Yorkshire; and indeed to most of the nations in the North of Europe.
The famous "Boggart of Hackensall Hall" had the appearance of a huge horse, which was very industrious if treated with kindness.
In the present generation, by pleonasm, the place is named 'Boggart Hole Clough.
He names, "The headless Boggart of White-gate Lane," as a sample of the first class.
The "Boggart Hole" therefore means the hollow haunted by the bar-gheist or gate-ghost.
Boggart has driven William Clarke out of his house; he flitted last Friday.
The boggart located at Thackergate, near Alderdale, has well-nigh scared many a sober person out of his senses.
The Higher and Lower Boggart Stones come next, and these are followed by the Wicken Clough, and other minor groups of stones.
Of course it was the Boggart did this, and it soon became their sport, which they called larking with the Boggart, to put the shoe-horn into the hole and have it shot back at them.
And with that, he turned about to his wife, and told her they might as well stay in the old house, as be bothered by the Boggart in a new one.
But the gamesomeBoggart at length proved such a torment that the farmer and his wife resolved to quit the house and let him have it all to himself.
The late Mr. Charles Hardwick thought that the flitting boggart was of Scandinavian origin, and the evidence seemed strong enough, but there is evidence that he is known in Italy.
The wind coming across Boggart Brow has a way of scattering and cooling restless plans and feverish fancies, that is good for a man.
What a simple little lass yo' are to be feart by a boggart i' that way.
Then keep your figgers o’ speech and your daft boggart tales to yourself,” growled Swithin.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boggart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bogey; bug; bugbear; bugger; ghost
