potato-bogle

Never did he display a finer bravery than in this spirited race for his life, and though three counties were aroused he doubled and ducked to such purpose that he outstripped John Richardson himself with all his bloodhounds, and two days later marched into Carlisle disguised in the stolen rags of a potato-bogle.

A Book of Scoundrels 1896

Never did he display a finer bravery than in this spirited race for his life, and though three counties were aroused he doubled and ducked to such purpose that he outstripped John Richardson himself with all his bloodhounds, and two days later marched into Carlisle disguised in the stolen rags of a potato-bogle.

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

Many will think with him, yet I am of opinion he is quite wrong, or, as friend J. F [errier] says, _vrong_ [145] In the first place, I am to look on the mere fact of another author having treated a subject happily as a bird looks on a potato-bogle which scares it away from a field otherwise as free to its depredations as any one's else!

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

--- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying --- uh! uh!

Rob Roy 1887

-- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying -- uh! uh!

Rob Roy — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

-- to leave me, first, to be shot or drowned atween red-wad Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying -- uh! uh!

Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Highlanders and red-coats; and next to be hung up between heaven and earth, like an auld potato-bogle, without sae muckle as trying — uh! uh! — sae muckle as trying to relieve me?”

Rob Roy 2005

"I wish ye were a wee thing paler; but apart from that ye'll do fine for my purpose -- ye have a fine, hang-dog, rag-and-tatter, clappermaclaw kind of a look to ye, as if ye had stolen the coat from a potato-bogle.

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

"I wish ye were a wee thing paler; but apart from that ye'll do fine for my purpose -- ye have a fine, hang-dog, rag-and-tatter, clappermaclaw kind of a look to ye, as if ye had stolen the coat from a potato-bogle.

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872