Boue

There was also the "Nostalgie de la Boue" thing that Tom Wolfe has written about, literally, "Nostalgia for the Mud" but more figuratively, the "romanticizing of primitive souls."

Blowback James Killus 2008

Swanepoel, who worked in Kikwit, Zaire during the 1995 epidemic that affected more than 350 people, killing 246, said the doctor had been brought to South Africa "bang in the middle" of an outbreak of the virus in Boue, Gabon.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

Madame Boue bowed slightly, as though acknowledging a compliment.

Maigret in Montmartre Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

Before leaving this painful subject I beg to state that, at least as far as I was concerned, the tradition had a firm foundation in my own predisposition for uncouthness plus what _Le Matin_ (if we remember correctly) cleverly nicknamed _La Boue Héroïque_.

The Enormous Room 1928

The third post, of quite recent foundation, is Okano near Boue on the Ogowai in the Fan country.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

South of the Amazon, Boue colours an area composed of rocks of this nature as equal to that of Spain, France, Italy, part of Germany, and the British Islands, all conjoined.

X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Poorness of Palaontological Collections 1909

"Platte Boue!" he gasped, as she came safely past that danger.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

In 1823 Boue, of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, showed to Cuvier sundry human bones found deep in the alluvial deposits of the upper Rhine, and suggested that they were of an early geological period; this Cuvier virtually, if not explicitly, denied.

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

[Footnote 12: Most of the gipsies here profess Islamism.] [Footnote 13: I presume Messrs. Boue and party.] [Footnote 14: The Austrian zwanziger goes here for only three piastres; in Servia it goes for five.]

Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842

Boue-M.rine; M. Paul set forth on a pilgrimage to Rome; the house was left quite empty, but for me, a servant, and a poor deformed and imbecile pupil, a sort of crétin, whom her stepmother in a distant province would not allow to return home.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835