Lexicographical Neighbors of Boying
Literary usage of Boying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in which Unfamiliar Facts by Frank S. Hastings (1921)
"Johnnie was one of our best riders; he was always "cow- boying." Reaching over
he gave Curlew a slap on the neck. The horse must have jumped in the opposite ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... and haut- boying ' up the grand staircase, and round your table, and down
again,' in a frightfully effective manner, while you dine. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"boying- at the time of the wrong done, and ton, 56 Me. 512; State M.Marshall,
was consequently an unconscious tool 45 NH 281; State r. Hardy. ..."
4. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"... the Brooklyn Eagle, and resigned my office-boy place in the road-roller
business, or perhaps I should say, road-roller game. My salary office- boying ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"March being Friday, we towed her out in the morning Spring-tyde, from the Wharfe
where she was built, boying her with foure ..."
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