Plant listening device in pub, catching English bête noire

Usage examples of bugbear.

Now your blade is enchanted and can rend the flesh of any magical creature: harpies, liches, bugbears, anything.

After the crisis at Muenster, though the Anabaptists continued to be a bugbear to the ruling classes, their propaganda lost its dangerously revolutionary character.

English, and trotted along as blithely over the deserted road as if not a fear had ever terrified their childish hearts, and as if English soldiers were still simply those far-off monsters that had served as bugbears to frighten them now and then into obedience to maternal authority.

Nor would it be truthful to say that Ridley was set free from his bugbear forever.

CHAPTER XX Not far from the dark-haloed indeterminate limbo where dwelt that bugbear of Charles Courtier, the great Half-Truth Authority, he himself had a couple of rooms at fifteen shillings a week.

This was a bugbear of the Reverend John's, and she was convinced that Hector had inherited it.

Gubtils' that they forgot all their fears of the terrible English, and trotted along as blithely over the deserted road as if not a fear had ever terrified their childish hearts, and as if English soldiers were still simply those far-off monsters that had served as bugbears to frighten them now and then into obedience to maternal authority.

He had found his short spear and his spear-throwing stick, which the humanoids called an atl-atl. He was taking aim on Ripple's retreating back when Trap whipped out a stone and sent it flying toward the bugbear.

He tossed the pins into the air and uttered a mystic syllable, then groaned as a bolt of lightning exploded from his chest and arced to the closest bugbear.

Once again, the threat of the Iranian bugbear, coupled with the strong sense that the administration's approach to containment was working (if it ain't broke, don't fix it) quashed the efforts of the hard-liners to push U.

By the time the bugbear came back down, still standing but quite winded, Pikel was behind the monster and had realigned his grip on the club.

In another document, Baines speaks of ‘the horrible blasphemies uttered by Christopher Marlowe’, and goes on to state that ‘in every company he cometh he persuades men and women to Atheism, willing them not to be afeard of bugbears and hobgoblins and utterly scorning both God and his ministers’.