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  • And in Boney Borough, near the high school, he has found the strangest and most unique plant ever.

    2010 May « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • And in Boney Borough, near the high school, he has found the strangest and most unique plant ever.

    2010 May 17 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • But when they got to the place where the tumbledown cottage had been in Boney's time, there was only a little slate-roofed house with a blue bill pasted up on its yellow-brick face saying that somebody's A1 ginger-beer and up-to-date minerals were sold there.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • They walked down to the post with this, and as they went they remembered how they had gone to the "George" with old Lady Arden's letter in Boney's time; and Edred remarked, listlessly, that it would be rather fun to find the smugglers 'cave.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • They were the kind of clothes Edred had worn in Boney's time, and the cave was just as it had been then, with kegs and bales, and the stream running through it.

    The House of Arden Edith 1923

  • Spoiled of her puissance, she had sunk to the level of "Boney" -- fare for the ears of children, food for a jest.

    Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

  • I had an interview with a lady who works for a major CD manufacturing plant whose name rhymes with "Boney" this morning.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001

  • "Boney," behind a fringe of British bayonets, was safely interned on the island of St. Helena, there was born in barracks at Limerick a little girl.

    The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

  • I., -- the "Boney" to whom he has adhered with such constant, albeit jocular, animosity.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • They knew that "Boney" was a character who would stop at nothing in carrying out his designs, and so it came about that the shadow of that collossal stride of the

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

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