It’s twice as powerful as my old one but one bugbear is that the bowl has no handle, what’s up with that??. From Wordnik.com. [What was in your stocking? | Baking Bites] Reference
Another bugbear was the standard, extortionate prices for web access - luckily you can pick up BT Open on wireless. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
The child knows not but that the bugbear is the proper object of fear, the blockhead knows not that a cannon-ball is so. From Wordnik.com. [Amelia — Complete] Reference
(That conservative bugbear is soooo 1980s.). From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » More Than 99% Of The Kyl-Lincoln $250 Billion Estate Tax Giveaway Goes To Wealthy Families] Reference
It does mean I’m going to have to face the 70,000 word bugbear in the room now, though. From Wordnik.com. [...very weird] Reference
The "bugbear" second summer need not be feared by the mother who takes particular care to see that. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
"bugbear" poison our pleasures and haunt our midnight visions. From Wordnik.com. [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference
But let's reconnoiter and try to spot our bugbear. From Wordnik.com. [A Dixie School Girl] Reference
What people will 'say' is the bugbear of small minds. From Wordnik.com. [Wise or Otherwise] Reference
American protections were the Admiralty's pet bugbear. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
The proposed UK bank levy seems to be a particular bugbear. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Chartered might get tired of London] Reference
He became the idol of the German populace, and the bugbear of the. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
"If he become not a bugbear to all Egypt, we may thank the gods,". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
"Has the Hebrew sorcerer already become a bugbear to the children?". From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
That is the real joy, when achieved; the real bugbear, when dreaded. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
See to it, I pray, that my name don't become a bugbear in the village. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
O Alexander, get out of my sunshine with your bugbear of a Charles Lamb!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Responsibility, the bugbear of mankind, was as the breath in her nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
A false quantity we see was a bugbear even before the days of Universities. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
So that fastidious snuff-takers may dismiss this bugbear at once and forever. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
If he has not ceased to be an idol, he has at any rate ceased to be a bugbear. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
The chest was soon filled with quilts and that bugbear was gone from her life. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
Terence know what a bugbear to slaves the threat of being sent to the mill was. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
In the BBC Trust, both men have a bugbear that unites them with their coalition partners. From Wordnik.com. [Two months to plot a media regulation 'big bang'? Get ready for shrapnel] Reference
We hear of the prevention of unemployment, the removal of the bugbear of "losing the job.". From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
D'Amboys: = what bugbear, such as this, is not afraid to visit D'Amboys, even in his sleep?. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
He would never wait for the bugbear to show its head; but he conjured it up at every point. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
My dear, you are young, and know so little about this world, which is such a bugbear to you. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Another bugbear of Marjory's was the little bag which Lisbeth always insisted upon her carrying. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
And yet -- had not this same belittling blemish been the bugbear of his own, generous existence?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
They are discovering that they have been fighting a bugbear; also, that their legislation against the bugbear cannot legislate. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
Germany was always a bugbear for France. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
My personal bugbear is the misspelling of lose/loose. on March 21, 2009 at 11: 06 pm | Reply anonymous. From Wordnik.com. [Cross & Rude « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
My other bugbear is that nobody who knows anything about Renaissance art refers to the guy as Da Vinci. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Brown: How Does He Do It? - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn] Reference
My reading bugbear is the use of second person – it turns me off very quickly even when the author has a good justification for using it. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The same only different] Reference
His main bugbear is Wikipedia. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · Mao Mao Mao] Reference
My bugbear is the americanism 'I could care less'. From Wordnik.com. [Snipr/SnipURL - Most interesting snipped URLs] Reference
Another bugbear is the closed, ivory tower nature of the process. From Wordnik.com. [A critique of Memeorandum] Reference
But the bugbear was her size, and it was close; it knew exactly how to terrify her. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
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