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  • The King and Queen attend the inauguration and Marie-Antoniette is obliged to bear the coldness, the scorn and even booings of the people.

    Archive 2008-06-29 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The King and Queen attend the inauguration and Marie-Antoniette is obliged to bear the coldness, the scorn and even booings of the people.

    Opening of the Estate General de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Followed by the booings of the disappointed crowd, he set out for the Sucking Calf at a sharp pace, taking the shorter way behind the Church and across the graveyard of Saint Francois.

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • At the peacefulest periods it was pervaded by a baneful Spook called the "Party Spirit," and always by the dull booings of unwilling young gentlemen at their lessons, like the raucous murmurings of an assemblage of melancholy rooks, or of kites and crows cawing and screaming in the intervals of their clamorous scufflings.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 Various 1876

  • A newsman commented that Dylan's voice was inaudible until he spoke about the booings he had received but then it became quite clear.

    Expecting Rain 2009

  • Just caught the ceremonial puck dropping by Sarah Palin this evening on MSG network (for those of you that don't know, the New York sports network) at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia at the Flyers home opener against the Rangers, she got one of the loudest booings I've ever heard!

    Drudge Retort 2008

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