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Who pass'd those _Bugbears Conscience, Law_ and _Shame_
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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They are never fearful in the Night, nor do the Thoughts of Spirits ever trouble them; such as the many Hobgoblins and Bugbears that we suck in with our Milk, and the Foolery of our Nurses and Servants suggest to us; who by their idle Tales of Fairies, and Witches, make such Impressions on our tender Years, that at Maturity, we carry Pigmies Souls, in Giants Bodies and ever after, are thereby
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Education are to be frighten'd with those Bugbears.
An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701
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Studio Liddell's credits include CBBC's Bugbears, Chapman Entertainment's Roary the Racing Car and Fifi and the Flowertots, Silentnight American Idol sponsorship bumpers, 3D recreations of Manchester United football stadium, Lemsip promo images, Kellogg's packaging stills, animations for General Motors web content, and many many more.
Media Newswire media-newswire.com 2010
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Officers, as Charon, Cerberus, and the Furies; and in the night time, all places with Larvae, Lemures, Ghosts of men deceased, and a whole kingdome of Fayries, and Bugbears.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Get pass them to the next room, overcome the Bugbears and reach to the last room.
IGN Complete 2008
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Threats, Phantoms, Bugbears, by the million, will be invented and propagated among the People upon this Occasion.
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I was recently given by pf and a fellow grammar gremlin a copy of Miss Thistlebottom's Hobgoblins: The Careful Writer's Guide to the Taboos, Bugbears and Outmoded Rules of English Usage, by Theodore M.
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Bugbears - FaceliftBugbears - Facelift by Lord of Worms
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Bugbears - FaceliftBugbears - Facelift by Lord of Worms
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