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- verb Present participle of
bugbear .
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In front of me was the open window, through which shone the electric light, blatant and insistent; behind this, the clock of Excelsior -- brightly lit and incandescent -- glared in upon us, giant hands going round, seeming to threaten the hour of dawn and frightening sleep and mocking, bugbearing the short hours which the working-woman might claim for repose.
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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