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"Booby" Quotes from Famous Books

... too easy to get hold of liquids out there, that's the worst of it," the pilot went on. "But for that any booby could manage a ship. He's only got to keep well to the right of Mads Hansen's farm, and he's got a straight road before him. And the deuce of a fine road! Telegraph-wires and ditches and a row of poplars on each side—just improved by the local board. You've just got to wipe the porridge off ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... to our saddle horses and pack horses, we have another four-footed animal in our outfit—a large black dog of seeming little intelligence, to which we have given the name of "Booby." He is owned by "Nute," one of our colored boys, who avers that he is a very knowing dog, and will prove himself so before our journey is ended. The poor beast is becoming sore-footed, and his sufferings excite our sympathy, and we are trying to devise some ...

— The Discovery of Yellowstone Park • Nathaniel Pitt Langford

... cowardly booby, will yer? So you thought you was coming hout to frighten a little lad, did ye? And you met with one of your hown size, did ye? Now will ye get hup and take it like a man, or shall I give it you as ...

— Frances Kane's Fortune • L. T. Meade

... such ambition," replied Pigoult. "But we must first of all consult the Comte de Gondreville. Look, look!" he added; "see the attentions with which Simon is taking him that gilded booby, Beauvisage." ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... ask you, you blundering booby," said my guardian, very sternly, "once more and for the last time, what the man you have brought ...

— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

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