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Example sentences for "boggarts"

Lexicographically close words:
boese; bofe; bog; bogey; boggart; bogged; boggle; boggled; boggy; boght
  1. His voice was jaunty, but in truth his dread of moor-boggarts was keener for the moment than his zest for the battle that was waiting them up yonder on the stormy hill-crest.

  2. Rest quiet, and be sure I'll keep the boggarts from the door.

  3. I tell thee, I can hear th' boggarts creeping wick as scropels fro' roof to cellar.

  4. Robin used to tell me tales of the witches and boggarts of the neighbourhood.

  5. I can likewise remember well being told that boggarts especially loved to haunt and otherwise annoy those who refused to believe in their existence.

  6. Witches, fairies, ghosts, and boggarts seem to have become intimately amalgamated in the repertoire of modern superstition.

  7. Most of the stories are old tales, which have been handed down from former generations, no living being laying claim to any personal experience of the boggarts referred to.

  8. But in one or two cases the boggarts are said to be still haunting the scenes of their former exploits; and people still living claim to have actually seen the ghosts, as well as heard about them.

  9. Concerning most of these homesteads, ghost tales are told; indeed, one old native of Godley recently declared that "there were more boggarts at Godley Green than anywhere else in the kingdom.

  10. It would, perhaps, be difficult to find in all England a tract of country of which so many wild stories of ghosts and boggarts are told as the old common land of Godley Green, and the picturesque cloughs and dingles which surround it.

  11. These humbler classes of boggarts are by turns both useful and troublesome to the farmers of the district where they choose to reside.

  12. Sidenote: Names for imaginary Monsters] The boggarts who are named in those awful threats by means of which the young are quelled into obedience to authority seem wellnigh innumerable.

  13. It can't matter being Boggarts for one night more.


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