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Definition of Bonifaces
1. boniface [n] - See also: boniface
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonifaces
Literary usage of Bonifaces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wonders and Curiosities of the Railway; Or, Stories of the Locomotive in by William Sloane Kennedy (1884)
"Only a few acrid old fanatics rejoiced in the approaching downfall of the bonifaces.
It is reported that a certain French archbishop declared that railways ..."
2. A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law by James Bradley Thayer (1898)
"Although there are not two bonifaces in every book, if there be two ... Just so
there are two bonifaces, and the printed calendar proves it. Wherefore, etc. ..."
3. The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to the by Archibald Bower (1766)
"... and Sciarra, all Three bonifaces moft fl"f,™Sf[at bitter Enemies, ... that the
People of Anagni took many of bonifaces Enemies, and among the Reft his ..."
4. Modern Battles of Trenton by William Edgar Sackett (1914)
"... between the Atlantic City bonifaces and the State liquor dealers' associations.
The Royal Arch of this seacoast town had set itself up as their rival. ..."
5. Some After Dinner Speeches by William Malcohm Bunn (1908)
"Yet, how the weary have rested under the soothing care of our bonifaces! ...
There is one thing, however, s connected with our bonifaces that has always ..."
6. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"Mr. Chubb was a remarkable publican ; none of your stock bonifaces, red, bloated,
jolly, and joking. He was thin and sallow, and was never, as his constant ..."
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