| 单词 | boor |
| 例句 | “And in his last breath reproached me for stooping to a boor!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Nately’s father was discreet and cultured; this old man was a boor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Anyway, I killed the giant Ephialtes and his brother Otis. Horrible boors, those two. Pinecone in the face for both of them!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mayor was a corrupt boor, the food turned your guts runny, but he held a good thought for them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Yes it is,” said I, “because I cannot bear that people should say, ‘she throws away her graces and attractions on a mere boor, the lowest in the crowd.’” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z No beach has sand silky enough to risk navigating gaggles of solipsists committed to behaving like boors because the sea washes away all consequences. "The White Lotus" may inspire vacation fantasies, unless you see Belinda's point of view 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z The tweet’s text said “image from Rochester,” but to some British eyes the picture said “xenophobic working class boor.” White vans and pickups: sending signals from behind the wheel 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Also, James did not set off Jade’s boor detector. Date Lab: He erred too far on the side of under-chivalrous, rather than over-chivalrous 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z Yeah, Baldwin was a "just doesn't get it" sexist boor about McGowan on Twitter. ‘Saturday Night Live’: Alec Baldwin and Larry David Contribute to an Awkward Episode 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z One pretentious boor in a dorm room convinced that he’s the reincarnation of Jim Morrison can ruin the band forever. The Doors defined California cool in the ’60s. How does their legacy stack up 50 years later? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z At one point her boyfriend, the producer Hot Sugar, took a water bottle, rubbed it against his crotch under his pants, and threw it at the boors in the crowd, a mild, gross defense. Music Review: Danny Brown and Kitty at Irving Plaza 2013-05-08T21:58:46Z Mead, played by Anne Harley, a strong soprano, is a self-absorbed boor who spends her time promoting her own achievements. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z Many dancers play Hilarion as a gruff boor who is merely a hindrance to the central lovers, but Mr. Zhurbin’s solid sincerity inspires sympathy, and this complicates and deepens the story. Misty Copeland’s Down-to-Earth Debuts in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Giselle’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Despite the character's many faults - money-driven, prejudiced, temperamental, a boor - Hemsley managed to make the character endearing as well, part of the reason it stayed on the air for so long. Sherman Hemsley of TV's "The Jeffersons" dies 2012-07-25T03:38:08Z Nor is your daughter’s stepping up to demand that he behave, nor is her grasping, apparently, that a boor’s companionship is optional. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When your son-in-law does his Don Rickles act, is it okay to heckle? 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The only interactive aspect is arguing with the boor on his cell phone two rows behind you.
Review: Grease and a Sing-a-long: They Go Together... 2010-07-16T23:55:00Z In his unpublished manuscript, Butterfield described Nixon as an “ignorant boor, a bumpkin.” The man who knew too much about Richard Nixon 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Whether it’s our collective self-involvement or the lack of face-to-face interaction that social media facilitates, one thing is clear: We are a nation of boors. Among the Vulgarians 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Adam Sandler leads a cast of mid-life boors to a lakeside retreat for the funeral of their beloved high school coach. Grown Ups: Adam Sandler is older, less wise, yet consistently lucrative 2010-08-31T12:16:00Z Mr. Jung is equally credible as a diffident, sensitive artist and an impatient boor, and Ms. Kim slides nimbly from demure to obnoxious. Review: In ‘Right Now, Wrong Then,’ a Double Take and Its Choices 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The incident made it into Beaton’s book, where the men, brought to life by the artist’s unmistakable pen, appear as grinning, cartoonish boors. Finding Humor, and Humanity, in Canada’s Oil Fields 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z He is a monumental boor and promoter of a Mexican-financed wall on the border. Review | For your playlist, three great new audiobooks 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Just promise me that you won’t let this boor isolate you or keep you from seeing your friends. I’m 80 and … #MeToo 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z To the haughty defenders of modernism, Adams was a trivial boor. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z In fact, until recently I was one of those uneducated boors who thought the author's first name was pronounced Ann. The Atlasphere: Online Dating for Ayn Rand's Biggest Fans 2011-04-15T09:20:00Z I never heard of Red Wing Peanut butter; however, I did hear of that pompous boor of anglo-saxon hegemony. How Red Wing Became William F. Buckley Jr.'s Favorite Peanut Butter 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Her journey from self-expression to self-deception, from wide-eyed American waif to the wife of a cruel boor, is excruciating to behold. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z Meanwhile Robert, often the amusing boor, seems like a much uglier sort of bully with his brother, taunting him and embarrassing all present with his talk about "making the eight"? Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z I feel like British audiences can enjoy a boor being taken down a notch because it’s sort of what their press is famous for doing, poking holes in powerful people. With ‘Welcome to Flatch,’ Paul Feig Comes Home 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z But even if you've had your fill of boors and superhero properties, "Peacemaker" still triumphs through its dedication to the twin powers of irreverence and compassion accessorized by a soundtrack made for rockin'. HBO Max's uproarious "Peacemaker" remembers to have fun in a brooding superhero landscape 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z He is a boor and, worse, a bore. Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z Never mind that the coach is a loathsome boor and the other teammates are bullies and yahoos. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Jesse Eisenberg stars as a meek data processor, grinding it out in corporate hell; he also plays the same man’s long-repressed id, a self-confident boor who creeps into his life and begins taking it over. ‘The Future,’ ‘Cheap Thrills’ and More Offbeat Streaming Gems 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z At Groton, I had been preoccupied with the differences between me and my classmates, between girls and boys, liberals and conservatives, loyalists to the feminist cause or unrepentant boors. Confessions of a Prep-School Feminist 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z “Look, it’s OK to admit Trump turned out to be a boor.” Christie banks on New Hampshire as he makes the case that only he can stop Trump: ‘I am the cavalry’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Gaston, the movie’s misogynist boor of a villain, sees a tool to be exploited to sow fear and manipulate others. Seeing the World Like a Character From a Disney Classic 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z But he's really not that charismatic and his voters mostly know he's a boor. Calm down! Indictment won't help Trump 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z In other words, “How can I make sure my kids don’t turn into selfish boors?” How to Raise Kids Who Don’t Grow Up to Be Jerks (or Worse) 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z Cries for “civility” are often the last refuge of boors. Column: Neera Tanden and the 'civility' scam 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Again and again, Diana and Barbara have to endure and deflect unwanted male attention; you may lose count of all the run-of-the-mill boors and slobbering predators they have to fend off, and you’re meant to. Review: With big villains and bigger hair, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is a gloriously overstuffed sequel 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Going to one of his infamous rallies, for instance, is volunteering to be tortured, like being strapped to a chair while the biggest boor in the world rants incoherently at you for over an hour. Trump isn't the reason we can't quit Trump — the obsession is really about his followers 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z From the moment he descended the golden escalator, you’ve seen him for what he is: a boor, incapable and unfit for office. Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to choose between autocracy and a republic 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Everything in the franchise emanates from this bullying boor. Perspective | The NFL long has known what it has in Daniel Snyder. The league owns this scandal too. 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Grant had often been depicted in either laudatory or disdainful terms — as a brilliant military tactician or as a drunken boor who was a failure at everything except war. William S. McFeely, author of Pulitzer-winning biography of Ulysses S. Grant, dies at 89 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “Here’s someone who spent all these years fighting for the rights of women and now you turn him into some insensitive boor?” she added. Is Elizabeth Warren ‘angry’ and antagonistic? Or are rivals dabbling in gendered criticism? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The woman in the parking lot was just a boor, an ignoramus, an aberration. Opinion | George Conway: Trump is a racist president 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Because Britain has a long history of indulging, even elevating, its political boors, though this is not always acknowledged. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “The boor, the bluffer, the bully would be a political colossus,” Gerson writes. Former Bush speechwriter argues Trump has legitimized “fascist modes of thought” in GOP 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “I explained to them that they had acted like boors,” the President wrote to Archibald. A glimpse into the heartache and high jinks in Theodore Roosevelt’s life 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The boor, the bluffer, the bully would be a political colossus. Opinion | What does Trump’s ascendance mean about America? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Trump emerges as an uninformed boor, a mean bully, a liar, an incompetent lout, a whiny toddler. Bob Woodward delivers 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z The cut and thrust of parliamentary debate is notorious for bringing out the boor even in normally mild-mannered members of Parliament. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z He plays Mangan not as a wealthy boor but as a puzzled, preoccupied man of sharp intelligence who can’t understand why so peculiar a family should be getting the best of him. Opinion | ‘Heartbreak House’ Review: Reviving Shaw’s ‘Useless Futile Creatures’ 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z A lot of Margaret observers would say that Hastings was being kind: it’s tempting to pronounce the verdict “loutish boor” on Royal Princess Number Two. A botanist, a pope and a princess: Three new biographies 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z I know many readers perhaps most would like the meeting to be failure because why should the goddess kowtow to the boor? Merkel Is Next to Visit Trump, Skipping the Bonhomie 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z America has had ignorant, corrupt, vain, lazy presidents before, but in Donald Trump we have the first president who is a genuine boor. The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z True, historically, British boors have shared little kinship with their American cousins; ours has been a wilier boorishness, obscured by a miasma of supercilious, ironic detachment. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It's their nature to be modest unlike our boor for a president. As Medals Pile Up, Norway Worries: Are We Winning Too Much? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Who wants their flight to get interrupted because a couple of insensitive boors don't know when to keep their mouths shut? ‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’ How a President’s Name Became a Racial Jeer 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z This country already faces an uphill battle to regain its moral authority and maintain global leadership after electing an offensive, uninformed boor to the presidency. When decency trumps blind party loyalty 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z In many realms of life, a boor’s rude, unmannerly nature can be forgivable. The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z This was marginally cleverer than Trump’s characterization of the former vice president as “Sleepy Joe” Biden, “a low IQ individual,” but still the boor’s blunt instrument. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The leader of your party is a boor, an ingrate and, as Northam declared in his effective Democratic primary advertising, a “narcissistic maniac.” Opinion | Democrats, Republicans, take note: A new era has begun 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s true, there’s nothing illegal about being a boor or a sexist jerk. It's no accident that sexual harassers rise up the ranks | Jessicca Valenti 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Simply by dint of being a loud-mouthed boor, Trump was able to dominate the media coverage so thoroughly that it’s a miracle that Clinton even got through, the researchers found. Unfair and unbalanced: Media defined Trump by his key issues — and Hillary Clinton by her phony scandals 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z A wise stockbroker, who makes his clients lots of money, might get away with being a boor. The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Of course, technically he might be more twit than boor. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Some, such as James Russell Lowell, writing in the Atlantic in 1862, found Thoreau “conceited, egotistical” and “a boor” who blabbed on about retreating from life but “never himself went far from home”. In Thoreau's footsteps: my journey to Walden for the bicentennial of the original de-clutterer 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Trump does act like a boor, use the vocabulary of grade-schooler, and show little interest in acquiring the deep working knowledge needed to govern the most supremely-armed superpower on Earth. Donald Trump is 'ill-mannered'. But this is less of a problem than we think | Ross Barkan 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Alas, and for good, the party’s over for boors and bullies. Opinion | The Twitter mob serves a purpose. Bill O’Reilly and United prove it. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z If President Trump is a boor, that may be regrettable, but better a boor with sound policies than a gentleman with unsound ones. The Only Good Thing About Donald Trump Is All His Policies 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But in insisting that Trump’s brand of boor is distinct, ours is as seductive and comforting a delusion as they come. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z What Stevens does, in other words, is refine the basic Beastly idea—the boor whose heart is gentle—with a glumly sophisticated wit. “Beauty and the Beast” and “T2 Trainspotting” Reviews 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Maybe they see Trump for the boor he is. Donald Trump Can’t Count on Those ‘Missing White Voters’ 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Maybe he has always been that big a boor and having a female opponent just made it obvious. Hillary Clinton’s male tormentors 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z And we saw a fraudulent boor who knows nothing about anything and brags about groping women. Trump can’t stop his campaign’s death spiral 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Today, the holdouts and naysayers just sound like boors. The Singular Serena Williams 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z He’s a boor and unqualified to be president, but he would break the D.C. crockery at a time when the crockery needs breaking. Trumpism Equals Arbitrary Government 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z And so to this Harry: a loudmouth and a boor, arms spread wide in an engulfing hug. Sex, Food, Rock and Roll 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z “He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor,” Pat Maloney, an Ohio regional director for Americans for Prosperity, told The Daily Beast. “He was just a condescending, nasty brutish boor”: Former co-workers reveal Trump aide Corey Lewandowski’s “misogynistic streak” 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z A steady diet of his self-adulation can be cloying; even an entertaining boor can become a bore. Are we finally reaching ‘peak Trump’? 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Think of every boss you’ve ever had who dazzled and energized the entire staff in the first six months on the job, only to turn into a boor and a bully later. Donald Trump's Very Strange Narcissism 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Politics is way too important to leave to the boors.” Jason Chaffetz, grandstanding charlatan: What you need to know about the GOP’s shameless up-and-comer 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It took Sterling three minutes to silence the boors and open his City with a tidy finish. Roma v Manchester City: pre-season friendly – live! 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Is there any reason to believe that standing on the debate stage would make Trump even remotely less likely to behave like an undisciplined, bloviating boor? Donald Trump Is the Least of the GOP's 2016 Concerns 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Little by little, I am reconciling the boor with the artist. Ol’ Blue Eyes still sparkles, a century later 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z That said, the line between being edgy and a boor is a thin one. Column: Blend of good, bad is box office in Chelsea’s Costa 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z But that doesn’t mean he is obliged to lower the tone of a damaged politics still further by pronouncing in the style of a saloon bar boor. Nigel Farage has a plan. And abhorrent views on HIV are just a part of it 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z BST06:48 Half-time: City 1-1 Roma It took Sterling three minutes to silence the boors and open his City with a tidy finish. Roma v Manchester City: pre-season friendly – live! 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z There were plenty of blowhards, bigots and boors, not to mention people who really shouldn’t be wearing madras. The Kardashians Killed the Hamptons Modern sport is an insecure sort, forever trumpeting its own importance, simultaneously a boor and a bore. England v South Africa – live! 2012-07-19T09:12:00Z With us, who would ever think of taking a boor from the plough, to make a man-at-arms of him? Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Now, what business has Nabal to go whining, in general terms, mark you, about servants now-a-days, when he behaves like a boor to his own? One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z The inn was, in fact, the worst in which I had stopped--the maid draggled and dirty, and smelling of the stable; the company three boors; the floor of earth; the windows unglazed. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Before, he had seemed churlish, awkward, a boor. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z The Gallego is derided in other parts of Spain, his name is synonymous with boor, for he is judged by the clumsy mozo who seeks work in the south. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Icel. b?inn, p. p. of ba? to dwell, prepare; akin to E. boor and bower. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Tom was not of the softest material, but at that, brute and boor were the best names he gave himself. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He's a boor: why, he called me a stupid pig only this morning. A Hero of Li?ge 2012-03-16T02:00:21.347Z It is parlous strange to me, Mr. Smith, how the drunken Dutch boor stands a day! Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z He could not help offering, as it were, a tribute to both; it seemed to him that he would be a boor not to do so. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z "Shut up, you chump!" warned Will Cheever, slipping between the boor and Ralph, whose color was rising dangerously fast. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z Then she thanked the woman, turned, and, deaf to the boors' gibes, passed into the road with her new protector. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Trust me, cousin, we will teach these boors such a lesson as they shall long remember. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z At best he's a boor; at worst he's a celebrity who avoided prosecution on a sexual-assault charge because he was rich enough to lawyer-up in a hurry. Athletes, Fame And Accountability 2012-02-24T05:00:00Z In fact, the original impression, whether it argued crass ineptitude or no, remained; and it is better to write oneself down a boor than to invent raptures which would be untrue. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The original meaning is that of cultivator or 'husband'—the same in fact as that146 of geb�r and boor. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The crime which he had to commit was of his master's ordering, and must lie at his door--at the door of good King George, that well-meaning stupid boor. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z What was my lord's f�te to her--the odious boozing boors! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He is but a boor of little consequence, and will be none the worse for martyrdom. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z President Johnson was habitually described as a 'drunken boor.' Unfettered A Novel 2012-02-12T03:00:15.143Z The governor was uncivil, the clerks were boors, the women were savages. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z What would his life be away at wild Glas-aitch-� without his boon companions, among boors who had probably never heard of a Hellfire Club? My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Was this boor to take the damsel from under Shane's nose? My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Buried in these dam holes a fellow gets such a boor. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The world, unfortunately, was full of such people—boors lacking the intelligence to perceive their betters. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z I had no desire to get into a dispute with this rustic boor, and yet it was imperative for me to go on if I were to reach the church in time for the service. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z On March 31 died the shrewd but brutal boor Frederick William I., and at the age of twenty-eight his son Frederick II. reigned in his stead. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z But then that husband of hers was such a "boor"! The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z She does not mind what that boor does; she will do anything for him. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z A bit of a boor, but a good sort on the whole. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z So does this mean the rich really are the unfeeling boors the lower half say they are? Got Money? Then You Might Lack Compassion 2011-02-07T06:15:00Z He had not even had the tact to make his refusal graceful; she must think him an iconoclastic boor, driven by a rude hatred of all that she respected. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z More elaborate, but equally successful, is the drawing of the voracious boor, the ill-natured general whom he offered to eat, and the King of Sweden who enjoyed the spectacle of their emotions. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z I have seen rough Lancashire audiences, bucolic boors in small country towns, and dour hard-headed Scotsmen, sit spellbound as the story of the woman's sin and her repentance was unfolded before them. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Vidyāpati says: Hearken, young woman: He is not ever a boor! Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z "These Scotchmen are all boors," she told herself, in her bitterness. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z The Russian boor, generally wanting the comforts which are supplied to the negro on our best-ordered plantations, appeared to me to be not less degraded in intellect, character, and personal bearing. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Each one must be taught better manners through wholesale plunder of cattle, sheep, and swine, to say nothing of a boor who blew the foam off his beer. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Over and over again have I seen men who would be very angry to be called boors deliberately break the back of a book. Remarks on the practice and policy of lending Bodleian printed books and manuscripts 2011-10-27T02:00:27.377Z He despised German as the language of boors, although it is remarkable that at a later period, in a French essay on German literature, he predicted for it a great future. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z On the broad road in front of our barracks, large bodies of Polish boors, in coarse linen frocks, were drilled for the service of Napoleon by officers in Prussian uniforms; certainly a singular mixture. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z These ideals originated in explicit instructions that cultural arbiters gave to aristocrats and noblemen, allowing them to differentiate themselves from the villains and boors. The Decline of Violence 2011-10-07T12:45:03.737Z So, too, as it appears to me, we may explain the recurrent complaints of his unhappy loves and of his desires frustrated by one and another of the boors. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z He is a boor whose grossness is only partly concealed. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z The passion of Cymon for Iphigenia, made a man and prince out of the rustic boor. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Zagloba was no boor, and refused not, knowing that acquaintance with him would be pleasing to every man. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Józsi Fekete, as is the way with boors, first drank from the flask himself, and then, having wiped the mouth of it with his wide shirt-sleeve, presented it to the Countess. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z “Many say nowadays, when they are rebuked for having taken a cow from a poor peasant: ‘Let it suffice the boor that I have left him the calf and his own life. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z The boor upstairs who got in the way of someone's forty-five-caliber automatic. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Thou hast converted the cowardice of these infidels into desperate valour, and hast made peasants and boors victorious over armed men of battle!' The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Vanity was the inspiration for the resident's sudden assertion of the prerogatives of his office, he decided, the petty vanity of a boor eager to demonstrate authority. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z It is also used as a term of abuse, meaning “boor.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Thanks to the revolution, the barriers that separated the various ranks have been torn down, and continual intermixture has blended the blood of the Frankish noble and of the Gallic boor. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z We also learned in Perry's 48 hours in the race that he's a classless boor. Rick Perry's got some nerve 2011-08-15T19:16:00Z Involuntarily, the crowd hanging about, one and all, boors that they were, took off their hats. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z To give to that clumsy boor all she denied to me! The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Stiegle, the boor, had striven against it, and had even asked the count about it, but had been forced to give in. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z Three hours before kick-off, its concourses were humming as the cynics and the boors fell in with the enthusiasts to relish a day that had taken 14 years to arrive. Brighton rock into new stadium but Tottenham come out on top 2011-07-30T19:21:11Z Then, with malice aforethought: "Is it one of the requirements that your centennial man should behave himself like a boor at a dinner-table, and talk shop and eat with his knife?" The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z Although White plays himself, he goes for laughs as an arrogant boor — and it wasn’t as easy as White expected. Renaissance man: Shaun White balances skateboarding, acting, Olympic plans heading to X Games 2011-07-28T23:09:03Z Aren't you behaving like a boor when you compel your employer to do your work? The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z This Ruthene boor was staring at him in such a curious way. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z His father was a groom in the duke's stable, and appears to have been merely an ill-tempered, thick-headed boor. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Do I ask you to accept the attentions of a boor or a scape-grace? Cynthia Wakeham's Money 2011-07-18T02:00:24.717Z The people of the West were not ill-mannered boors by any means, but gentle, kindly folk. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z He smoked a cigar in the drawing-room, generally behaved like a boor, and took no notice whatever of the ladies. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Otherwise I were a boor and you are greatly to blame for enduring me. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z If I had stayed out at the sheep farm for another year I should have been a perfect boor.” Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z Do you suppose I am such a boor, such a Vandal that I can’t enter into your ideas? Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z What a contrast there was between her father's noble, intellectual personality and this good-humoured boor! A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z A boor was in charge of the vehicle, the luckless owners of which had, according to his intelligence, been compelled to walk to a small roadside public-house at the distance of a league. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z We are so embarrassed, shamed and repulsed by the actions of a small sector, a boisterous mob of boors that will now define us. In-Box: Letters to the Editor 2011-06-18T16:00:51Z He says the boors are difficult enough to keep in order as it is; that if they are taught to think for themselves, there will be no safety for the game, or for anything else. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Do you suppose Burns drinking at the ale-house, with his boors around him, was drinking, like them, only beer and whisky? The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z The most respectable product of African colonization is a Cape boor, and this is certainly not a finished specimen of humanity. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z By the bye, that huge Danish boor stood by me. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z An untidy person at five-and-twenty, degenerates, very frequently, into a sloven and a boor at fifty. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z Probably the boor who relished the production of Mr. Roe's garden would have been surprised to know that the productions of his pen were even more sought after than that delicious fruit. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z Instead of that, he stretches out his tongue, droops his big ears, and stares in at the window—this rustic boor! The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Who of us has not heard the uncultured boor boast that he is not restricted by any "sissy manners"? Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z I had been taught to believe these Saxon chieftains were loutish boors. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Obstruction's becoming a bore; We're victims of boor, clown, and cad. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z Passmore looked around him with admiration, but with something of the feeling of the boor in the story who found that the stranger to whom he had shown scant courtesy was a prince in disguise. The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z I guessed what was passing in his mind:— “From heretic boors, And Turkish Moors, Star of the sea, Gentle Marie, Deliver me!” The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z I was a fool to think of shirking it altogether; that would have been behaving like a boor. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z "But indeed I care nothing for this speculator's position--the man himself is odious--a common parvenu with a boor of a son." 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z Gaunt was an unspeakable brute, a thorough boor, and would refuse to receive her if she gave him half a chance. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Pistasch behaves like the perfect gentleman which he is when he does not consider it his duty to be a perfect boor, or does not take pleasure in representing a perfect street Arab. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z “Someone seems to have been taking a great deal of trouble to make me out a regular boor,” said Jack, with his curt laugh. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z A South African expatriate, he alternately is a boor and benevolent, running afoul of his peers while generously supporting American troops. Monday Qualifier: Golf's Most Enigmatic Player? 2011-03-07T05:00:00Z "What an ill-bred boor you are!" she calls out. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Do you suppose Burns drinking at the ale-house with his boors around him, was drinking, like them, only beer and whisky? Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Just think of it! those boors! those louts! that swinish herd of human cattle had dared to raise a cry of revolt against you! Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z That boor knows—guesses—nothing of the truth. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z He did not wish to stir up trouble with two such ill-mannered young boors as the cattle-punchers were showing themselves to be. The Boy Scouts On The Range 2011-01-27T03:00:45.810Z Had the progress of the haughty boors been stayed? Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z She stood up to him, so to speak, and there were times at which he had the feeling, though he did not show it, that he was behaving like a boor. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z “Let me do this, so that you won’t remember me simply as a man whose own troubles made him a boor.” King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Somehow he got to his goal, and knew that even a boor like Garth could not fail to see what—if he took on the job—was required of him. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z As for herself, she had not even a boor whom she could love, not even the churlish man with the huge ears. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z He thought of the difference of Claribel's treatment of this young boor and that of himself—he, the scion of a noble house! Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z He felt that he was being a boor. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Being a boor is never a good idea, and the network multiplies the effect of boorish behavior. Eight Social Media Resolutions for 2011 2010-12-28T15:01:00Z The boors dined in a room by themselves during the rest of their stay. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z "Well, he was a boor," said the boy, bitterly. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z He must be no poor weakling, unable to enjoy the good creatures of flesh, fowl, fish, and wine: no boor: and no log insensible to loveliness. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z Why, yesterday at the Cavillands’ I could feel myself being a boor and a bore. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z In Danish folk-lore, the fairy money bestowed on the boors turns sometimes to pebbles, and sometimes grows hot and burns their fingers, so that they drop it, when it sinks into the earth. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Groot Willem observed that the ostrich may be easily domesticated, and he had frequently seen tame ones about the kraals of the frontier boors. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z He felt he was intended for better things than to preach the gospel to the boors of Fashwitz. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z It is true that every man, the rudest Prussian boor, as well as Von Humboldt, is indebted to mankind for his culture, to their past history and their existing institutions, to their daily toil. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z But it’s funny how restaurants bring out the boor in some people. | Split the Check 2010-12-12T14:31:16Z Lawyers for Mr. Brooks have repeatedly pressed for a mistrial, accusing the prosecution of highlighting irrelevant evidence to portray Mr. Brooks “as a sex-obsessed, tax-cheating boor.” Former Body-Armor Executive on Trial for Fraud 2010-07-27T01:39:00Z This is the “pauw” or “wild peacock,”—a peacock only in the phraseology of the boors, for the bird is a bustard, and the largest of his tribe—the Otis kori. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z He had evidently been looked upon as a rude uncultivated boor, and this London exquisite had been preferred before him. By Birth a Lady "I think nothing at all," said Baltasar, dryly: "I only wonder by what chance a Morisco boor came to have so tender and so handsome a boy." Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico And would she trouble herself further about such a clumsy boor? A Divided Heart and Other Stories But how could he have been such a boor as to forget her? The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode In many parts the staple food of the frontier boor is venison—that is, in districts where the ordinary game has not yet been exterminated. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z And, besides, he had been unseated before “that coarse boor, Charley Vining,” and the fellow had had the impertinence to grin. By Birth a Lady "The lives of all that faithful be, This good day, will I spare; But wo betide or kings or boors, That currish Christians are!" Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Forgive my behaving like a boor, but I must go. The Hillman The men of wealth and birth detested him as a dangerous, rude, unlettered boor, who knew nothing of government or public business. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Diedrik is a very rich boor—a “vee-boor”—who every night shuts up within his spacious kraals more than three thousand horses and horned cattle, with five times that number of sheep and goats! The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Her husband was a boor; her house pretentious and slovenly; her girls, the two elder, pretentious, priggish, envious; Marie, the youngest girl, a sort of Cinderella, but a sweet, shy, down-trodden, quiet child.... Small Souls I have never got over the want of fluent French and German, and I resent the fact that I should be condemned to feel like a child or a boor in the presence of foreigners. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Now he was doubly annoyed at his clumsiness: he had behaved like a boor and had sacrificed the interests of Beatrice to an ill-timed chivalry. The Gay Adventure A Romance All this, Gotelind, you have lost, owing to your father; now give your hand to a peasant, with whom you may dig turnips, and at night lie on the heart of an ignoble boor. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. The notary usually assumed a tone of rude and almost coarse abruptness with his clients, who liked him the better for being in behaviour like a boor of the Danube. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Etonians were discovering that all Harrovians were not the dark-blue bedecked ruffians of Lords nor the aggressive boors of Etonian tradition. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Even to such a boor as this, sitting over his black bread, the Revolution had come home, and, in common with many a thousand others, he wondered what he could make of it. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 And just because they themselves are cattle, horses, boors, who don't understand the tailor's art! Yiddish Tales So Hiesl is a stupid boor, and doesn't know anything--not even his own business? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II But as for my conduct, no one but the Herr Count has a right to call me a boor. The Children of the World Hunting the Leopard.—Two boors in Southern Africa, in the year 1822, returning from hunting the hartebeest, fell in with a leopard in a mountain ravine, and immediately gave chase to him. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom "Great Scott, what a boor I was!" he exclaimed to himself a second later. The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold Now to Irene every German soldier was a boor, with a boor’s vices and limitations. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 In all the world I don't think there is a greater boor than my brother. The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern Jack Cade was a boor, Cromwell a tartuffe, Bolivar a politician, Mazzini a theorist. A Bed of Roses Mr. Levison had held out glittering prospects, which it was galling to have destroyed by a persistent boor such as Pierre. A Traitor's Wooing To the quick perception and plastic imagination of the artist, our world reveals what the boor will never see. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Irene was “the pretty one” chosen as guide by this hulking connoisseur, but she knew how to handle boors of his type. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 The traits of the boor, the glutton, and the coward come most naturally to the surface upon occasion, yet Sancho remains a patient, good-natured peasant, a devoted servant, and a humble Christian. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII "Good for you!" was the elegant reply with which this young boor honored me. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth We shall come to the farmhouse of a Dutch boor, or a Hottentot village, or fall in with a hunting party, and so find the means of reaching Cape Town.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa That these boors, that death itself, should come between him and his wife and say she could not hear his lightest word! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Of course I will, my dear boy, and you mustn't be deceived by the manner of that shy old boor, the Rector of Wychford. Plashers Mead A Novel They are great rough boors, and they pride themselves on the stories related for generations back of their prodigious strength, and as they are wealthy, they can do pretty much what they please. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. Sweet Mistress Kate, I love you as these country boors can never be taught to love. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Omatoko was one of those made prisoners, and he was for eight years in the service of a boor. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa But it would have been enough to stamp him as a boor, and he contented himself with pressing it tenderly as he bent over it. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One The fellow was such a rough, assertive, thick-headed, inconsiderate boor, utterly unable to appreciate his own splendid good fortune. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War The cursed swindling boor! he thinks he'll ruin this poor cheesemonger, does he? International Short Stories English We can take no interest in the boyards of Russia or the boors of Poland; but little in the agas and kuzilbashes of Eastern story. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The boors’ cattle was continually being stolen, and could very seldom be recovered. Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa As the boor in society makes himself conspicuous, so it was one of the tenets of Pan-Germanism to let no international agreement take place without German interference. A History of the Third French Republic "What a great lady!" cried the boors to one another. Black Diamonds Quit the sarcastic intensity of Voltaire's ridicule for the vulgar jests of this illiterate boor! Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Thereafter, little by little, in lieu of the boor came the knight, occasionally the paladin of whom Roland was the type. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern But neither Cortez nor Pizarro ever perpetrated more unjust or inhuman deeds, than have the Dutch boors during the century and a half of their possession.” Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa Curses on me for a cad—a boor—a lout—. The Mountain Girl He was an avid talker, a boaster and a boor. Voyage To Eternity In the foreground of the great flat expanse lay a boor, a fellow dressed like a field-labourer, in heavy sleep on the ground. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions A rough boor turned to me and demanded my gauntlets. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 The man or child, who is a churl at home and limits his courtesy extra-murally, is not only a pitiable boor but a contemptible hypocrite. Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home Nor is it understandable why the newly rich of the far West are such ignorant boors, while the same articles at the East are refined and intellectual. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 No boor and dullard may walk with you in the fields of fancy, alone with the night wind and the quiet stars. The Technique of Fiction Writing She looked with actual envy at the party of boors who played at dominos in the beer-house opposite, and followed with longing eyes the little mail-cart as it left the village. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life "The 'boor,' as you are pleased to term me, has the whole charge of this business, and you will transact it with him or nobody." The Spiritualists and the Detectives Her eyes seemed to read that I was not at heart a boor and her graciousness remained impervious to my ruffianism. The Portal of Dreams Shaking hands as an expression of personal regard is doubtless a somewhat meaningless conventionality, but the man who refuses to shake hands is looked upon as a boor. The Story of General Pershing The boor had brought that inquisitive son of his, who full of joy held a torch and pointed out the way to the caves. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. It is a national malady, extending from the prince to the boor, and including the Liplaps or half-breeds, who generally unite the vices of their European fathers and Indian mothers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 Colonel Shelby entered the room and seated himself with an air of a gentleman, while Beardsley acted the boor, as he always did. Marcy The Refugee He wants to be a little boor who won’t know how to act when he grows up.” The House of Fulfilment “He doesn’t look like a ‘chuff’–a boor. Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl The entire population of the county was purely agrarian, the villeins and boors altogether numbering about 2,800; or on an average of one labourer to each 167 acres of land registered in Domesday Book. The Annals of Willenhall Three that are most difficult to talk to: a king about his booty, a viking in his hauberk, a boor who is under patronage. The Triads of Ireland In short, to use the concise and descriptive expression of that numerous class of individuals amongst whom his desire is to shove himself, an insufferable snob and boor. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Burns sometimes wrote like a mere boor—Moore has too often written like a mere man of fashion. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) One could not be a hermit or a boor because girls had hearts and the bank had none. A Canadian Bankclerk And to those words, which were to found chivalry and banish the boor, Judas led Mary from the room. Mary Magdalen "Not well have we fed our hounds, Not well have we driven our horses, Since a little boor from a kiln Has killed the boar of Druim Leithe." The Triads of Ireland Here may be seen no longer the gloomy feast of rebels, the baleful orgie of serfs and boors, sharing by night the sacrament of love, by day the sacrament of death. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages It doesn’t follow that such chaps are boors, or clowns, or brawlers off the field. Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond I seem to be forced repeatedly to make–make a boor of myself!” Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance The little daughter of Soulanges, whose infant slumbers were disturbed by these rude Dutch boors, was afterwards the marchioness de Vaudreuil, the wife of one governor general of Canada and the mother of another. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 No doubt I looked but a poor boor to her—a giant and a dolt. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. But at last I felt disgust Of this strife with ill-licked boors In my bless�d land—I grew Weary of these daily moils. Atta Troll I have become a boor, and the comrades in Berlin or Hanover would treat me with perfect disdain if I should venture to approach them on a footing of equality. A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day He will accomplish more, even as a day laborer, than the mere ignorant boor. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Betray your and madame's secret to yonder Spanish boor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. You may call me a boor, if you like, but I want you to understand this. The Moving Finger Some idle boor must have observed this solid little piece of man's handiwork, and then, I suppose, struck at the mirror with his axe--a savage and blackguardly act. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography They associate with boors and grooms, Jew gambling-house keepers, boxers and bullies, for money’s sake to be sure. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign A man with even an ordinary, common school education, can turn himself in a hundred ways, where a mere ignorant boor would be utterly helpless. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education The boors who were at their labour in the fields suspended it, to look at one whom the Furies were lashing and whirling on. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century The flesh of Sehrimnir, and the cup of mead, Are but for him who falls in martial deed: Yon luckless boor, that passive meets his end, May never in Valhalla's court contend. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 “Oh, you boor!” she cried, pushing at him. The Missourian Joe slept on, like a heavy-headed boor, and she went back to the stove to put the kettle on to boil. The Bondboy Within that province far away, Went plodding home a weary boor; A streak of light before him lay, Fallen through a half-shut stable door Across his path. Eighth Reader The families are neighbors, you know; and I suppose the boor takes a look for encouragement. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Both must endure the trials, but the poet enjoys compensating pleasures which the boor may never know. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Like his most obvious parallels in painting, he is too fond of boors and pothouses to be allowed the quality of artistic perception. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, into the infernal kitchen.... Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development Was she merely kind to the boor in her house? or had there been a deeper meaning in her divine smile—in her suddenly lifted eyes? The Romance of a Plain Man "Pardon! but, monsieur, even Mardi Gras does not excuse a boor." Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life "Though cold the coxcomb, and though coarse the boor, Though dulness haunts the rich and pain the poor, In this colossal city, Yet London is not Rome, O Shade!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 And it is to such a boor that they give the beautiful, the adorable Blue Beard. A Romance of the West Indies On the other hand, Steve felt a boor for having sent the books. The Gorgeous Girl They do not understand me; the big noisy boors do not understand rhythm or nuance. Melomaniacs Captain Enderwood swore at the poor old man, though the captain ever respected age and regarded profanity as the mark of a boor. Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield Their opinions outrage civility as well as Christianity; and while they make a boast of being gentlemen, they hardly rise above the prejudices of boors. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 They are a cheerful, industrious race, who, far from meriting Lord Byron's contemptuous epithet of "Lusitanian boors," are gifted with a natural courtesy and refinement of manner. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 In private life the old pagan revelled in the lowest pleasures: he passed his Sundays tippling at Richmond; and his holidays bawling after dogs, or boozing at Houghton with boors over beef and punch. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges I am a poet, and play upon the tympani; the conductor and the orchestra are boors. Melomaniacs One of Tenier's inside-out pictures of a village feast, with drunken boors—not worth a groat apiece when alive—would now fetch its weight in gold three times over. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 Why I had rather be the veriest boor that holds a plough, or a cobbler at his last, than to be, as Shakspeare says, "the thing I am." Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 "Oh, that is the maternal grandfather," said a wise old friend to me, "he was a boor." The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index With voice scarce human thus the tyrant cried, 'Depart or die;' and gave the Church's goods To clown and boor. Legends of the Saxon Saints He was a clod-hopper and a boor, dull, stuck in the mud. The Rainbow And when respect and honor thou win In Denmark’s land of fame, Let not the boors be with tax opprest, Thus will they bless thy name. The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Songs Relating to Queen Dagmar He was a bully—a boor—a brute—a tyrant. Counsel for the Defense About the wild forest I have run, To the boors much scathe and violence done. The Dalby Bear and Other Ballads "Just as a man is enjoying his dinner, a boor like this comes along and interrupts him." Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces The young lady gave him up at last, concluding that he must be a boor in spite of his fine appearance and his courage. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro There was great joy over all Denmark That Dagmar for Queen they had got; Lived burger and boor in peace without The plague of plough-tax and scot. The Mermaid's Prophecy and Other Songs Relating to Queen Dagmar If he is somewhat of a boor in manners, I can cure him, and, come what may, I dare to say he will be a better husband in the long run than Humphrey. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney And Sawnie, herding on the moor, Who beats his wife and a' that, Is nothing but a brutal boor, Nor half a man for a' that. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul The Characters of Theophrastus is composed of sketches—humorous and acute, if superficial—of types such as "the flatterer," "the boor," "the coward," "the garrulous man." Introduction to the Science of Sociology With tears and lamentations, the boors fetched the body of their brave and faithful leader from the little island where his death had occurred, and which to this day bears his name. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Rather than such cockney sentimentality as this, as an education for the taste and sympathies, we p. 143prefer the most crapulous group of boors that Teniers ever painted. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The old men burst out laughing at that equipage, but the country boors crossed themselves, saying that a Venetian devil was travelling abroad in a German carriage. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 The amount of idealization in her peasant sketches was naturally over-estimated by those who, never having studied the class, could not conceive of a peasant except conventionally, as a drunken boor. Famous Women: George Sand The boor’s little eyes glinted and the boor’s rusty fingers rasped at his stubble chin as he answered emphatically: “Then I am a King’s man, root and branch.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel The regiment of body-guards pursued them, and drove the discomfited boors into the artillery court. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 The window in the provinces replaces the theatre and the promenade, and she amused herself with watching the crowd of boors, when she saw a gentleman in a green velvet coat. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Who ever heard of making a foray with boors and lackeys? Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 The Hapsburg duke of the moment was one of two rival claimants for the title of emperor, and was much too busy to attend personally to the chastisement of these presumptuous boors. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 "My oxen! my poor oxen!" cried the boor, and then he related all that had happened to him, entreating them to go with him to the place. Folk-lore and Legends: German “My gentle Lord, then hear my prayer, Suffer not ladies the scarlet to wear; And, Sir, you must grant me this boon beside, Let no boor’s son a good courser ride.” Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams and other ballads Pillot, I am sure, thought me crazy, to pay this simple boor in money, when a cut with a whip would, in his opinion, have done just as well. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France And when I drew my sabre, then many thousand sabres had glittered round about, striking terror to the lords' castles,—But now the very children of the peasant boors laughed at me! Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Holbein is a civilized boor; Botticelli a reanimate Greek. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving The great scheme of the play is the great achievement, not the buxom boor who flouts the Duke of Austria, and takes the national view of his mother's dishonour. William Shakespeare Now Berngerd lies in eternal pains, The boor his horse and cow retains. Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams and other ballads The inn was dirty, the accommodation meagre, and the landlord a surly boor, who behaved as if we had done him a grievous injury by stopping at his house. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France The Muscovite boors showered on us a hail of bullets from below; we replied from above sparsely, but with better aim. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 No pride is so great as the pride of intellect, and the Allertons never doubted that their neighbours were boors beside them. The Explorer Lastly, she is humbled into the state of submissive wifely falsehood by a boor who cares only for his own will, her flesh, and her money. William Shakespeare If in the boor’s garden the King eats a pear, His servants rapacious the tree will uptear; For every five eggs he gives bounteously, more Than five hundred fowls will his armies devour. Little Engel a ballad with a series of epigrams from the Persian "The boor has given me a sleeping place downstairs, but presently I shall return here quietly, and then—ah well, we shall see." My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France Let the courtier govern his steed, The boor his thatchèd cot, But Denmark’s King o’er castles rules, For nobler is his lot. The Expedition to Birting's Land and other ballads God curse the day you sent me to Calais, a gentleman's son, to be beat by a boor!' Privy Seal His Last Venture Even my cousin Rupert beside him would have looked but a country boor. Athelstane Ford He was but a clown, a mere boor; he had been a ploughboy on her father's lands, and had run away to join Captain Richard, who had made him a trumpeter in his troop. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... The boor does so immediately, and is liable at any moment to the ravages of many kinds of doubt. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy “I’m sorry to be such a boor, but I thought you meant some begad tonic.” The Mystery of the Green Ray She became unable to see him as anything but a boor, an upstart servant, whose friendship with Carl indicated that her husband, too, was an "outsider." The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life He may be a boor, but Plutus lends a charm which eclipses the grace of Apollo. Humanity in the City If politeness consists in letting them suppose that I take any stock in what they say, then I plead guilty to being a boor.” Penguin Persons & Peppermints The philosopher's logical tranquillity is thus in essence no other than the boor's. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Impotent render the insolent boor— Dead to the love and the life to endure! New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 And by a pack of base boors, by a puny, cream-faced, chicken-breasted, outlandish starveling, have I been robbed of it. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck She pleaded that prettily against it methought the veriest boor in Christendom would a given in to her, but my little lord was stanch. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales But as for you, Aemilianus, and ignorant boors of your kidney, in your case the fortune makes the man. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura The drunken boor who claims to be President is in reality an alien of a conquered province.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The brawny arms of boor and clown Cast with the axe their honours down, With Echo's repetitive sounds Complaining of the raided bounds. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) Has not he thickheaded ignorant boors; lazy, enslaved farmers, weedy lands? Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. I tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock. The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago What boor, what porter, what taverner is so poor of speech that could not curse more eloquently than these folk, if he would consent to assume the professor's gown? The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Then in an eager voice he said: "Dearest, I bring you a love undreamed of among these country boors." A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time The king’s man was not the pet boor they had taken him for, but single-eyed, a gentleman, a clever fellow, and a good churchman. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England To me she was wholly cultured and I some strange boor who had never been in a drawing room. Valley of the Croen But as Ivanoff was an ignorant and surly boor, disliked even by his colleagues, Kaleshnikoff endured his petty persecutions with comparative equanimity. From Paris to New York by Land He was behaving like a boor; but it was better that she should think him one. Prescott of Saskatchewan The regulars were soon to come and replace those volunteers, said the wiseacre of his cabinet, therefore strike now before the trained and disciplined troops arrive and sweep these big boors into the sea. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters She would have set him down as a boor perhaps, but what matter? The Search He must find her, become her friend, perhaps——But, again he laughed to himself, “What a boor I am!” The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure And had I but known it, all the time I was vainly urging this stolid boor to reconsider his decision, help was arriving from a totally unexpected quarter. From Paris to New York by Land A boor belonging to yon burning village killed, some time ago, a stag, the property of the mighty Wildgrave. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom This expedient, even as it pleased Bruno and the other thick-witted men of those times, in like manner pleases certain boors to-day, who are served therein by craftsmen as vulgar as themselves. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi It is low, it is mean, and the better nurtured and higher minded leave it to boors—be they of Peoria or the Fifth avenue. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy One of the men, who brought him in—a great rough boor he was—had the audacity to suggest that Joseph was around there seeing what he could pick up. Stubble The Austrians were brave boors, who spoke nothing but Styrian or Carinthian, or some border dialect, which nothing but barbarism had ever heard of, and which nothing but Austrian organs could have ever pronounced. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 My master refused to give up the boor; but in order to punish him, seized every thing he possessed, and confiscated it to his own use. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom They prove themselves gentlemen, while many of our citizens have proved themselves boors, and I admire them for their conduct. A Confederate Girl's Diary There is even a great difference between the disciplined, and therefore differentiated ear of a cultured person, and the undisciplined, and therefore less differentiated ear of a boor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy A Flemish Tavern: boors and burghers hale Drawn round a table, o'er a board of chess, Smoking their heavy pipes, and drinking ale, Blowing from tankard brims the frothiness. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 I fought against it, and it has made me half mad when the great vulgar boor has sat talking about you, and drinking your health and praising you. The Bag of Diamonds The happy day arrived: the Calabrian boor approached the castle; the king received him at the gate, fell at his feet, and asked him for life and health. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Can the idle reports of a silly boor weigh in your breast against my tried affections? The Rivals A Comedy "My house a boor one, sir, but at your service." The Valley of the Kings He could not brook the thought of Kamehameha’s ascendency, for he was a man used to deference, a man of weight and dignity, while this new-found prince was a boor. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy? St. Winifred's, or The World of School But London is not a place for a young gentleman of such exalted notions of his own importance—‘You bury me at a farmhouse with a family of boors!’—was what he said. The Dew of Their Youth "Red-hot irons here!" yelled at last a voice of malignant fury, and immediately three of the boors set off running towards the stable. The Day of Wrath I know I am only a boor common man, like dirt to you. The Valley of the Kings The tales were narrated from time to time in the spinning-room, or in the so-called “Hell” of the boor or weaver, without any determinate connexion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Only boors could in so many words refuse such a request, put with apparent frankness by a woman old enough to be their mother. The Car of Destiny “Get out, you rude boor!” cried Hilary, as the door slammed and the key turned. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" "A boor howls if you nip him, this sort only holds his tongue just as if he had a soul different from the others...." The Day of Wrath They appeared to be compounds of the cavalier and the boor. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War The boors now ran flocking with pickaxes and other tools, and would have their share of the treasure, but none of them was able to find the spot where the silver had welled out. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 We remarked further that the inhabitants of Texel were more polite than the boors of Friesland. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 That son of Sparks's, as you so despisingly call him, dearest papa, is a most charming partner; while Lord Dudley, and my cousin Robert, are little better than boors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. "Bring hither two good horses!" cried Bodza to the boor mounting guard in the corridor, and with that the pair of them stepped forth amidst the peasant host. The Day of Wrath The boor in uniform at my side, related his errand and order, gave the particulars of my arrest, declaimed against our agent, and submitted the journals. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War “Take my sword,” cried Denis sharply, “and make me your prisoner, insolent boor, if you dare or can.” The King's Esquires The Jewel of France The boors who brought it in wagons asked us to ride out with them to their places, which we did. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Lord Robert was, as his cousin Mary had truly described him, little better than a boor. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The boors, with the fearful inquisitiveness of professed connoisseurs, carefully regarded the strange awe-inspiring powder from every side—so this was the murderous instrument of extirpation. The Day of Wrath I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor,... into the infernal kitchen!... Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing The thought put him in a rage, while the idea of meeting Stevens on an equality humiliated him—strife with such a boor was in itself a degradation. Elder Conklin Indeed, he sat prating and gossiping with the boors, who talked foully and otherwise, not only without giving them a single word of reproof, but even without speaking a word about God or spiritual matters. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Since the bells rang in my marriage morn, I have dozed away life like a lump of clay, vegetating like a peasant, sleeping like a German boor. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy "Is that true?" asked a terrified boor on the other side of the table. The Day of Wrath The boors, or country-farmers, are a species of the human race, so gigantic and superior to the rest of mankind, in point of size and constitution, that they may be called nondescripts. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 A man may possess vast learning and yet be a boor. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Have I not seen that it is the greatest boors that have the most claim to it. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette The poet Cowper well describes them in his poem representing 'the country boors' gathered together at tithing time at the residence of their country parson. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy That time I dared: "You may Recall"—but never-foamless shores Make better friends than those dull boors. Last Poems Paris still bewildered him like some countrified boor on his first visit. Artists' Wives Moreover, he first exalted the German professor: A hundred and fifty years ago Prussia was a land peopled by boors. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 A man may have ever so much book-knowledge and still be a boor; but a man can not be a person of good education and not be—so far as manner is concerned—a gentleman. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The effect of these boors in their constant inroads upon a fasting man, whose surroundings and conditions were not of the best, to say the least, may be easily imagined. Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1 Did they parley with cunning lawyers, cajole the boor, act the valorous on a misgiving heart, guess at the thought of man or woman oftener than we do? John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn "Dorothy," Wakefield asked abruptly, the next time he got speech of her,—it was at the Assembly and she had only vouchsafed him two dances,—"Dorothy, what do you like about that boor?" Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book He—the calm, gentlemanlike, Captain Rothesay—burst into a storm of passion that would have disgraced a boor. Olive A Novel And my statesmen will probably be horrid old boors. The Californians But on the whole, to general admiration He acquitted both himself and horse: the squires Marvell'd at merit of another nation; The boors cried 'Dang it? who 'd have thought it?'—Sires, Don Juan Sturdy black and hairy scamps the Irish—never German boor so inelegant—but venomous in their courage! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn "In the first place he isn't a boor," she answered. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book If she does not appear at three o’clock, I’m off for provisions, and I don’t see much danger, for in this dress I look as much of a boor as any man in Holland.” Peter Simple These people made a combined attack upon the frontier boors, burnt their houses to the ground, carried off the cattle, and possessed themselves of their arms and ammunition. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa He was laughed at in the cities as a boor and condemned in New England as an ignoramus, though Harvard College, under some strange inspiration, was soon to award him the doctorate of laws. Expansion and Conflict Well spoken, Edith," said Mrs. Blake, sweeping indignantly from the room; "the boy is a perfect boor. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life "You haven't told me why you like this gentlemanlike boor," he persisted. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book “You boor!” he coughed out; and, giving the lad a malevolent look, he turned haughtily to the others. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias They then yoked the teams, and wishing the old boor a fare well, and thanking him for his hospitality, they resumed their journey. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa He was rather rough, but it was in a good-tempered fashion, and I felt as if I should like the captain in spite of a whisper from Walters which sounded like “boor.” Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea I'm a great, rough boor of a lad, Win, and you're such a dainty, fairy creature. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life In the history of the Cape colony many a boor had lost his flocks in this very way. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family He did mind, not bargaining for learning lessons in the holidays; but he could not show himself so uncivil a boor as to refuse. Dr. Jolliffe's Boys “I certainly have read of great cruelty on the part of these Dutch boors, but I had no idea of the extent to which it was carried.” The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Many of the boors, naturally enough disliking the new government thus forced upon them, retraced their course over the Drakenberg, back into the upland plains of the interior. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 Bud I am a scientist, and therefore boor. The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Farming in the Cape colony consists principally in the rearing of horses, cattle, sheep, and goats; and these animals form the wealth of the boor. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Yet, if I fled, I were a paltroon and a boor. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess This independent horde of Hottentots gave great offence to the Dutch boors,—the more so as the three brothers had been the leaders of the Hottentots in the former insurrection. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa But this persistent boor did pin me down Until imprudently I answered, "No!" 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts It was plain to every eye, moreover, that he was a gentleman and no boor. A Hungarian Nabob Many such tales are current in the country of the boors, and they are not all without foundation, for these animals most certainly possess the power of reflection in a high degree. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Disorder everywhere; piles of gold and valuables upon the floor, each Spaniard, whether cavalier or boor, loading himself with what he thought he could carry. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Shortly afterwards the wife of the boor made her appearance, and having saluted them, took up her station at a small table, with the tea apparatus before her. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa He looketh on our race with proud disdain, Hence I with poison must sour Francos' mind, That he but vileness in this boor shall see. 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts The boor seemed inclined, however, to take his time. A Hungarian Nabob Now I would ask, why could these naturalists not let the nomenclature of the boors alone? The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family At 1 p.m. the rain began to descend in torrents, and we took refuge in the hovel of an ignorant Pennsylvanian boor. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 They were a party of sixteen—all stout fellows, and armed with the long guns used by the Dutch boors. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Of course the proprietary implication in every word the man said arose simply from the conceit of a boor. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date By peasant, you need not understand a common boor. Short Studies on Great Subjects My young English reader, do not suppose that I mean any disrespect to Mynheer Von Bloom, by calling him a “boor.” The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Dull boors See deeper than we think, and hide within Those leathern hulls unfathomable truths, Which we amid thought’s glittering mazes lose. Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife His brother immediately shot the boor with his gun, and thus did the miscreant meet with the just reward of his villainies and murders. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa Some have no veneer like this boor, and some have the polish, but they are all the same underneath. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date And nothing could be more delightful than the familiar way in which those children spoke of the wealthy boor whom they had never seen. The Nabob, Volume 1 In our good Cape colony a “boor” is a farmer. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family A man may easily be far from perfect in details of the former class, and yet be a refined gentleman; but he cannot offend in the latter class of instances without being a boor. Etiquette A boor of the name of Gyt was out with one of his neighbours hunting. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa There is first of all the comic value of the meanness and envy in the mind of the boor, his complacency at the quarrels and mutual destruction of the magnificent people. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Indeed, without it only a boor or a saint can be really comfortable. Girls and Women Von Bloom was one—a Dutch farmer of the Cape—a boor. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family "Taxes are equal is a dogma which I'll prove at once," exclaimed a Tory boor; "Taxation hardly presses on the rich, And likewise presses hardly on the poor." The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings They generally go out ten or twelve of them with their long guns, not fewer if possible; and you must recollect that these boors are not only very cool, brave men, but most excellent shots. The Mission; or Scenes in Africa It must have been an impervious boor indeed who would venture to jest upon Miss Allison’s single state. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story "You are a boor and a scoundrel to use such language!" Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands But the boors have been accused of cruelty in their wars—especially those carried on against the native races. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Thanks; you know such advice is wasted on a country boor like myself. Dross These illiterate boors, as he supposed them, caught him at once in a false concord, and Mr. Platitude had to slink home overwhelmed with shame. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest Leaning over the table with his eyes set and his fist clenched he shouted at me, "I am a boor and the son of a boor".' Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies No, Beethoven was a boor, a clumsy one, and this quality abides in his music—for music is always the man. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Another point to be considered is the character of the natives with whom the Dutch boors had to deal. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family When she addressed him on sterner subjects, the ground, the weather, the crops, he looked at her as if she were a baby, he listened with stubborn resentment, and strode away a confessed boor. Here are Ladies The whole was valued at 40 shillings; yet on all this were but four villeyns, six boors, p. 6and four slaves: so low was the state of population. The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 “Let us not endure this from these boors, but let us rather fall upon them and slay them.” The Mabinogion Vol. 3 “Verily,” said Arthur, “by the valour of men, I will not go hence until I have my horse and my arms to overthrow yonder boor.” The Mabinogion Vol. 1 Of course their trousers were of dressed sheep-skin, wide—like the trousers of all young boors—and they also wore jackets and “feldt-schoenen,” and broad-brimmed white hats. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Don't talk folly, after the manner of a country boor. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) "Never! never! we would never permit ourselves to be seen in such company, you rough-looking boor, you." Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field "The boors pointed their guns at you at first," said the young nobleman, carelessly curling his mustache; "you must have found that a bore." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Sometimes he seems a mere country boor, a rough, unkempt fellow, with coarse features and a heavy expression. Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation But the wagon was almost as good as ever it had been,—almost as good as when it used to be the envy of the field-cornet’s neighbours, the boors of Graaf Reinet. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Better still, let these English boors promise to forget that we are alive; then Marcel can guide them to the landing-place, where they will be shot speedily and comfortably. The Stowaway Girl "If you were a boor," she cried, "you could not behave worse!" The Long Night "We shall be satisfied if they only allow us to rescue our property from those boors;" and, accordingly, they turned back to make their wishes known to the captain. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag The exquisite and the sentimentalist were the fashion, to be speedily followed, according to the law of reaction, by the boor and the satirist. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The boors of the Cape colony have figured very considerably in modern history. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family The Conrad heroes are nearly all boors and ruffians. A Book of Prefaces The cards flicker upon the seat; the boors gather round to watch; they pass the French frontier, and see from their windows the forges of Belgium, throwing fire upon the river Meuse. Bohemian Days Three American Tales "Then at least send them to the neighboring town, and do not expose them to the assault of every drunken band of boors." Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag It seems hardly possible that in this narrow-minded, disagreeable, and essentially vulgar character, Cooper could have fancied he was creating anything but a contemptible boor. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Little Jan also wore wide trousers, jacket, “feldt-schoenen,” and broad-brimmed beaver,—in fact, Jan, although scarce a yard high, was, in point of costume, a type of his father,—a diminutive type of the boor. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family Do not look at them as though you suspected them of being evil-doers, thieves and boors. Paris Talks The keen wit of the student is exchanged for the pipe and mug and dull oath of the boor. Bohemian Days Three American Tales "Go on with the wagon," said the merchant to Anton; and when the latter hesitated to leave his principal alone with the boors, the command was still more peremptorily repeated. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag But few would now be found to deny that his indignation was both natural and just, and that the act of Lord Nugent was the act of a boor and not of a gentleman. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Young reader, I could easily defend the conduct of the boors of Cape colony, but I have not space here. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family He treated his subjects like noblemen, like gentlemen, like freemen; not like vassals or boors. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. Oh what is a king here, Or what is a boor? Poems What you did was the act of a boor—and a fool,' says the dame, 'n' walks on by. Blister Jones But you were not; you were merely acting the part of a vulgar boor. The Boss of the Lazy Y |
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