"Bogy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said the man on the pail scornfully. 'It's all bogy. You know that empty 'ouse as they said Sweater 'ad bought—the one that Rushton and Nimrod ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... tails, and so forth, in order to astonish the weak minds of the Caribs, just as the Red Indians dress up in their feasts as bears, wolves, and deer, with foxtails, false bustles of bison skin, and so forth. There are plenty of traces of such foolish attempts at playing 'bogy' in the history of savages, even of our own Teutonic forefathers; and this I suspect to be the simple explanation of the whole mare's nest. As for Raleigh being a fool for believing it; the reasons he gives for believing it are very rational; the reasons Hume gives for calling him a fool rest ...
— Sir Walter Raleigh and his Time from - "Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays" • Charles Kingsley |
