Meaning of yogibogeybox | Babel Free

Definitions

A container for a spiritualist’s accessories.

Examples

“Yeats, like AE, though not so fatuously, stood for the whirlpool, Madame Blavatsky and the yogibogeybox.”

“For him the yogibogeybox could offer nothing so good as the vegetable world.”

“"They are saying" — it was Prof. Fewstone, of course, sidling up to Miss Thisbite with his overfilled shirt and yogibogeybox-shaped head, the strange hairdressing of which gave him a big roach in front and a curled effect at the rear which he tucked under in a roll.”

“There is a period during which the children hear their mother denouncing "that woman" through closed doors, but the rival turns out to be only Mary Baker Eddy, in whose Boston yogibogeybox Walter had at last found a spiritual home.”

“Ellmann reports a more elaborate and nastier prank that Joyce and Gogarty actually perpetrated in the 'yogibogeybox' rooms of the Hermetic Society on Dawson Street, and he attributes to this prank the historical A.E.'s refusal to include Joyce in his 1904 collection titled New Songs, a Lyric Selection; Made by AE from Poems by Padraic Colum, Eva Gore-Booth, thomas Koehler, Alice Milligan, Susant Mitchell, Seamus O'Sullivan, George Roberts, and Ella Young (Gifford 212).”

“In a word, the 1898 Literary Ideals in Ireland discussion of French Symbolism exposed Yeats's Magic in Ireland, where it was as suspect as Russell's yogibogeybox Mysticism was harmless.”

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