I can't understand why Constance keeps to that old-fashioned booby, holding the views she does.

" "Blue-footed boobys," Arthur said.

But I did love her truly, and even now I feel that she is not indifferent to me; it is perhaps, therefore, fortunate that her husband is a jealous booby and never leaves her, so that I seldom have an opportunity of seeing her.

He lamented his overthrow; but, above all, that he was beaten by "three stupid, legitimate old dynasty boobies of regular sovereigns."

Does a little booby cry for any ache?

Partridge, a mere unsophisticated booby, thought simplicity the characteristic of Nature, and therefore out of place in Art.

This overgrown booby needs a horsewhipping, and that's the sort of an answer I'd like to make to him.

Could one believe without actual experience of the fact, that it would be assumed by hundreds of thousands of pestilent boobies, pandered to by politicians, that the Established Church in Ireland has stood between the kingdom and Popery, when as a crying grievance it has been Popery's trump-card!

The philandering knights were sensual boobies, the simpering dames soulless wantons.

He lamented his overthrow; but, above all, that he was beaten by "three stupid, legitimate old dynasty boobies of regular sovereigns."

Partridge, a mere unsophisticated booby, thought simplicity the characteristic of Nature, and therefore out of place in Art.