Boyg

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The Boyg said, “Go roundabout!” — so one must here. —

Peer Gynt 2008
Go roundabout, the Boyg said; — and here one must.

Peer Gynt 2008
The Boyg said, “Go roundabout!” — so one must here. —

Peer Gynt 2008
Go roundabout, the Boyg said; — and here one must.

Peer Gynt 2008
The Boyg [shrinks up to nothing, and says in a gasp:]

Peer Gynt 2008
The Boyg [shrinks up to nothing, and says in a gasp:]

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Boyg -- invisible yet everywhere -- we were struggling with the unwatered hinterland of the citizens of Schenectady.

A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
That is Jargon: and to write Jargon is to be perpetually shuffling around in the fog and cotton-wool of abstract terms; to be for ever hearkening, like Ibsens Peer Gynt, to the voice of the Boyg exhorting you to circumvent the difficulty, to beat the air because it is easier than to flesh your sword in the thing.

V. Interlude: On Jargon 1916
Mr. Vernon-Smith, of Trinity, and the Social Settlement, Tooting, author of "A Higher London" and "The Boyg System at Work," came to the conclusion, after looking through his select and even severe library, that Dickens's "Christmas Carol" was a very suitable thing to be read to charwomen.

Alarms and Discursions 1905
Ay, so that’s it, Boyg; so you’re like a lion when one sees you from behind and meets you in the daytime!

Peer Gynt 2008