Do we say bogey or bogie

bogey 41 occurrences

" Moreover, Jimmie, swore there was something "bogey" about the boy's intermittent knowledge of English.

If we are to be defeated, it must be by them, not by their bogey-men.

"Duchess," he said, "sooner or later I felt quite sure that our conversation would draw near to the German bogey.

tikbalang: An evil spirit, capable of assuming various forms, but said to appear usually as a tall black man with disproportionately long legs: the "bogey man" of Tagalog children.

Oh, yes, princes use God as a kind of bogey to frighten grown-up children to bed with, if nothing else avails: that's why they attach so much importance to the Deity.

A dirty second-class car was provided for the Commanding Officer and his Staff, and a well-lighted first-class bogey car of eight compartments for the British Military Representative, who was merely travelling up to see the sights.

The band started "Colonel Bogey," then went on to something which I do not remember, but while we were groping about through machine-gun pits, etc., the band behind began "Tipperary."

No one has ever done the fourth in two before; it's the Bogey score.

Golf had fewer admirers than had the other sport, but what there were were fully as enthusiastic, and the coming tournament was discussed until Joel's head whirled with such apparently outlandish terms as "Bogey," "baffy," "put," "green," "foozle," and "tee.

They know their duty well; I needn't mind a Bogey or a Giant or a Bear, The Sentinels are watching on the nurs'ry stair!

But I told him that I wished he wouldn't, even in joke, allude to that bogey of the nurseries of my generation, a place of punishment.

My second landed on the green and I ran down a long puttthis for a 4-bogey hole.

Not so Lord HENRY BENTINCK, who genially exploded with "Is not Bolshevism in this country a pure bogey?"

The menace of this last was shrewdly used by making a bogey man of the trader and a reputed hell on earth of any district whither he was supposed to carry his merchandise.

Boney was a bogey; but the German was a nightmare, a thing actually sitting on top of us.

Wind has come from a clear sky and from a clouded one; we had a small blow on Tuesday but it never reached gale force; it came without warning, and every sign which we have regarded as a warning has proved a bogey.

With a rollicking gallop and a bogey ahead, that did not trouble me.

He invariably finds something pleasant to say about the most immature and unpromising efforts, and he has the knack of so handling his own early experience as to make it an encouragement and a stimulus, and not (as the manner of some is) a burden and a bogey.

One venerable bogey I wish to dispose of before I close.

Men and women took hands like little children playing a game of bogey-man.

The Bogey man will get you.

RAVAGLI, FRIEDA L. Bogey between the generations.

The Bogey man will get you.

The sole reason, therefore, for mentioning it in this paper is that it affords an indication of two things: (1)that the Government therein makes no sex distinction in the profession; (2)that the bogey of sex cleavage, so often mentioned by the timorous in the political world, is here, as always where it is put to the test, proved to be without foundation.

The bogey of his insulted Tancred pride haunted him always, and, like all foolish things, caused him more suffering than if it had been a crime.

bogie 56 occurrences

"I begin to think Lord Nick is a bogie," he said.

Bogle, bogie.

Fearful of blasphemy, yet brave, she faced the bogie of a God her thought had evoked, saying, "I make my own choice.

'It means running the country as easy as a four-wheeled bogie on a down grade.

Spreading the News (1904), Hyacinth Halvey (1906), The Image (1910), and The Bogie Men (1913) are representative of her vigorous and well-constructed farces.

Am I a bogie? TATYÁNA.

The dog's beautiful ears, which were left as Nature made them, were transmitted to his son Bogie Rattler, who was sire of Bachelor and Benedict, the latter the most successful stud dog of his time.

She must have taken her bogie-husband's, she took young Gilbert's, she took Gilbert's wife's, she took Arnold's in another way....

[Croak.mit.tain], the bogie raised by fear.

The annoyance of Bogie (an enthusiastic puppy) at missing his walk might appropriately be solaced with portions of "Dog's Delight."

It's a large home-made bun thing which used to delight me as well as Bogie's mother in days gone by.

I called Bogie, who was giving a vivid imitation of a cavalry screen protecting our advance, and made him sit up and pretend to be begging.

Bogie barked, put out his tongue and let the wind blow his left ear inside out.

At the Rectory she sang to me even better than she used to; the "Delight" was an achievement, Bogie being most agreeably surprised; there was a glow of firelight such as I love, and a vast comfortable chair.

You'll promise not to set Bogie at me or strangle me with your Sam Browne?"

THE BOGIE MEN was first produced at the Court Theatre, London, July 8, 1912, with the following cast:

The under frame is carried upon two bogie frames running upon the contractor's rail, by which means it is enabled to turn sharp curves, a guide plate inside the inner rail being provided at the curves for this purpose.

Bogie's last stand.

Bogie's last stand.

I am no preacher," says the Baron, "and perhaps OSCAR didn't mean anything at all, except to give us a sensation, to show how like BULWER LYTTON'S old-world style he could make his descriptions and his dialogue, and what an easy thing it is to frighten the respectable Mrs. Grundy with a Bogie."

[HW: Ky 9] Interview with Dan Bogie: Uncle Dan tells me "he was born May 5, 1858 at the Abe Wheeler place near Spoonsville, now known as Nina, about nine miles due east from Lancaster.

Marse Bogie owned about 200 acres of land in the eastern section of the county, and as far as I can remember there were only four slaves on the place.

Bob Wheeler and Arch Bogie were our masters.

Apart, however, from the bogie chapters of Possession (which I shall not further indicate) the most moving scenes in this latter part are those between Archie and his father.

The country boy was striking wildly, and trying to clinch his antagonist, when the town marshalthe bogie-man of all boysstopped the fight.

Do we say   bogey   or  bogie