boniface

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Thereupon he straightened his face and sent for Morton Washer Mr. Washer, proprietor of two of the largest hotels in New York, and half a dozen enormous winter and summer places, looked no more like a boniface than he did like a little girl on communion Sunday.

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  1. noun The keeper of an inn, hotel, nightclub, or eating establishment.

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  • Boniface: Have you heard "Nighthawks At The Diner", yet? boniface —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • So, far I've purchased the albums: "Alice" and "Rain Dogs." cakebelly boniface: check your email for a link (to Nighthawks) to mediafire where I keep some files. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • An heiress of nature's choicest favors," the happy Galen floridly said, as he took his leave So she is," grimly assented Hawke The gossipy boniface was already spreading such meager details of the sudden seizure as he had been able to pick up, and, the words "Polish noblewoman," "Italian marchesa," "French countess," were tossed about freely in the light froth of the conversation in the ladies' drawing-room Meanwhile, Alan Hawke was smoking a meditative cigar alone, while pacing the old Cantonal high road before the Faucon. —  A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
  • Thereupon he straightened his face and sent for Morton Washer Mr. Washer, proprietor of two of the largest hotels in New York, and half a dozen enormous winter and summer places, looked no more like a boniface than he did like a little girl on communion Sunday. —  Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress
  • So Will turned boniface, and invited May and me to make our home with him There was a baby in Julia's home, and it had so wound itself around May's heartstrings that she could not be enticed away; but there was never anybody who could supplant Will in my heart; so I gladly accepted his invitation Thoreau has somewhere drawn a sympathetic portrait of the Landlord, who is supposed to radiate hospitality as the sun throws off heat--as its own reward--and who feeds and lodges men purely from a love of the creatures. —  Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister
 

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  1. After Boniface, an innkeeper in The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar (1678-1707).
 

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