Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust.

Level crossings are the bugbear of railway operation at Hull. There are no fewer than 16 within the city boundary.

Next, they operate in constrained worlds. Apple is a particular bugbear for Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Sweeney.

What has this Bugbear Death to frighten Man,
If Souls can die, as well as Bodies can?

But, to the world no bugbear is so great
As want of figure and a small estate.

"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible. You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster, and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bugbears and hobgoblins which their nurses have talked to them about.[…]"

The partisans of the Administration object to the word “imperialism,” calling it a mere bugbear having no real existence.

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