"Bogey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... energetically, "baal you bogey longa that waterhole. Plenty fellow blue water snake sit down there—plenty. One bite you little bit, you go bung quick. Plenty fellow myall ...
— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke
... They see things in their right proportion, because they know that the first thing is to have a job and do it well. If we can teach boys to begin to understand that truth while they are at school, we shall have exorcised the bogey of athleticism. I should expect to find (though I do not know) that the authorities at Osborne and Dartmouth do not need to bother their minds about that bogey. Their boys play games with all a sailor's heartiness, but their ambition is not to be a first-class athlete, but to be a first-class sailor, ...
— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various
... It was about that, man," said the other. "Don't shy at it like a horse at a blue bogey in a ...
— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn
... match (and further took The liberty of mopping up the bye); Remember just a happy morning's round, Also the fact that this alleged old fogey Played at the last hole like a book and downed The barely human feat of Colonel Bogey. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 25th, 1920 • Various
... had been accompanied by a man who was an opium smoker and eater. Now I am not going to draw a horrible description of a shrivelled, wasted bogey in man's form, with creaking bones and shivering limbs and all the rest of it; but I must say that this man, towards the time when his craving came upon him, was a wreck in every worst sense—he crept away to the wayside and smoked, and arrived always late at night at the end of the ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
... could invent now to rouse the blessed man?" she wrote about this time. "Sure it's past believing that his pretty doll of a wife—who went near to ruin him living—should stand between him and us that love him, worse than ever now she's dead. The fear of it haunts me like a bogey and makes me ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... of that," replied Kelly, who was wise enough to realize the value of a bogey like Dorn—its usefulness for purposes of "throwing a scare into the silk-stocking crowd." "Dorn's getting ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... bogey at three o'clock high. Range about six hundred miles." Johnson spoke casually, but his voice in the intercom ...
— Slingshot • Irving W. Lande
... which was not all a Dream. (By Somnus and old Nox I fear 'twas not!) Common-sense was extinguished, and Good Taste Did wonder darkling on the verge of doom. I saw a Monster, a malign, marine, Mysterious, many-whorled, mug-lumbering Bogey, Stretched (like Miltonian angels on the marl) In league-long loops upon the billowy brine. Beshrew thee, old familiar ocean Bogey, Thou spectral spook of many Silly Seasons, Beshrew thee, and avaunt! Which being put In post-Shakspearian vernacular, means Confound, you, and Get out!!! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 • Various
... situations. To this dead level of correctness literary purism has brought romance. The reaction against the photographic style, on the other hand, leads to spasmodic efforts to arouse the jaded interest by forced sensationalism, physiological bestialities, and a crude form of the hobgoblin and bogey business. ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... hundred times of Medea da Carpi, suddenly recollects that, when he was a child at Urbania, his nurse used to threaten him with a visit from Madonna Medea, who rode in the sky on a black he-goat. My Duchess Medea turned into a bogey for naughty ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
... pleased with himself because he had stood up to the bogey man of the Southwest, and too full of ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine |
