Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookoo
Literary usage of Bookoo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope: From Its Discovery to the by Alexander Wilmot, John Centlivres Chase (1869)
"... and bookoo were immediately summoned to his presence, and the purport of the
express communicated to them. The answer of the Chief was characteristic, ..."
2. Records of the Cape Colony from February 1793 [to: Copied for the Cape by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Great Britain Public Record Office (1900)
"Although very ready to answer our inquiries upon other points, bookoo declined
giving ... We took leave of bookoo early in the morning and ascended a hill, ..."
3. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1891)
"... and he compels bookoo to account for his possession accordingly. He finds that
bookoo bought the animal from one Sheo Surun Sahai ..."
4. An Expedition of Discovery Into the Interior of Africa: Through the Hitherto by James Edward Alexander (1838)
"Both sexes are fond of greasing the skin, and the women also bookoo themselves,
that is, they rub the ground root of the bookoo plant, ..."
5. The Life and Times of Sir Richard Southey, K.C.M.G., Etc.: Formerly Colonial by Alexander Wilmot (1904)
"... a brother named bookoo, and some councillors, and terms were agreed to ...
bookoo, and two of the privileged councillors remaining as hostages with us. ..."
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