Do we say bootee or booty

bootee 1 occurrences

neckerchief, neckcloth^; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal^, rabat^. shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche^, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral^; arctics, bootee, bootikin^, brogan, chaparajos^; chavar^, chivarras^, chivarros^; gums [U.S.], larrigan

booty 643 occurrences

Oh, what a booty were this for me!

Your only alternatives to that conclusion are that the murdered man went to bed with his clothes on, or that the murderer broke into the house before Sir Horace had gone to bed and after killing Sir Horace went coolly round the house turning out the lights instead of fleeing in terror at his deed without even waiting to collect any booty.

While the police were frantically searching hither and thither, we used to weigh anchor and calmly steam away with our booty on board.

Immediately after the battle, Scipio, having taken and plundered the enemy's camp, returned to the sea and his ships with an immense booty, news having reached him that Publius Lentulus had arrived at Utica with fifty men-of-war, and a hundred transports laden with every kind of stores.

"Great quantities of booty were collected on the battlefield, and this has been stacked in front of the town hall of Diest.

These threats they faithfully executed; but, by a just vengeance, they were pillaged in turn, for the Berbers not only plundered the Jews themselves, but the Moors who had escaped from the city laden with their booty.

As for the other case of treasure, it was never heard of again, nor could Barnaby decide whether it was divided as booty among the pirates, or whether they had carried it away with them to some strange and foreign land, there to share it among themselves.

AEolocentaurus was admiral of one of the fleets, and Thalassopotes {109} of the other: they had quarrelled, it seems, about some booty; Thalassopotes, as it was reported, having driven away a large tribe of dolphins belonging to AEolocentaurus: this we picked up from their own discourse, when we heard them mention the names of their commanders.

[Purchase, booty.]

Like that subtle fish, he turns himself into the colour of every stone for a booty.

The stage coaches for Paris were entirely loaded with their booty.

They succeeded however, in making a prize of a new boat-cloak, and the boat-hook, and one of them had nearly succeeded in carrying off an oar, but upon being fired at, dropped his booty and scampered off.

The truth is that the Insurgents were determined to capture Manila for themselves, not only because of the "war booty," for which they were hungry, but because of the status which they felt that the taking of the capital of the Philippines would assure them.

The earnestness with which he urged that all foreigners not Spaniards should take steps to identify themselves and their property shows that he considered the persons and property of Spanish civilians as fair booty of war."

The Insurgents promptly demanded their share in the "war booty," and asked certain other extraordinary concessions as follows: "(4) Our sacrifices in coöperating in the siege and taking of Manila being well known, it is just that we should share in the war booty.

The Insurgents promptly demanded their share in the "war booty," and asked certain other extraordinary concessions as follows: "(4) Our sacrifices in coöperating in the siege and taking of Manila being well known, it is just that we should share in the war booty.

Your forces, you say in substance, should have a share in the booty resulting from the conquest of the city, on account of hardships endured and assistance rendered.

The facts on which you base your conclusion granted, your conclusion, under the rules of war which are binding on my Government, does not follow, for it has never recognized the existence of spoils of war, denominated 'booty,' as have many European governments.

My troops cannot acquire booty nor any individual benefit by reason of the capture of an enemy's territory.

He said that many soldiers had received sums of money as their share of booty, and intimated that officers must have done the same.

There will be booty for all.

He therefore immediately fell upon the natives who were preparing to attack him, killed many, seized others, and made booty of some gold in their habitations.

By this victory the Spaniards acquired a vast number of slaves, and got so much booty that each shared seven thousand pieces of gold.

DENTATUS, M. CURIUS, a Roman of the old stamp; as consul gained two victories over rival States and two triumphs in one year; drove Pyrrhus out of Italy (275 B.C.), and brought to Rome immense booty, of which he would take nothing to himself; in his retirement took to tilling a small farm with his own hand.

Loaded with booty, Heké's men went off inland in high spirits.

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