boosing

I sent him to the Christian Brothers and I done what I could him, and there he goes boosing about.

Dubliners 2003

One of the home papers, more sensationally than truthfully, remarked that our ship's company were all such a disreputable, boosing set, and proved themselves so reckless and recalcitrant when on shore, that the admiral took this means of punishing us.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

I sent him to the Christian Brothers and I done what I could him, and there he goes boosing about.

Dubliners James Joyce 1911

Almost all the wits of Queen Anne's reign, he observes, were fat: 'Swift was fat; Addison was fat; Gay and Thomson were preposterously fat; all that fuddling and punch-drinking, that club and coffee-house boosing, shortened the lives and enlarged the waistcoats of men of that age.'

Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868

You knows you has only stepped from my boosing-ken to another, and you has not been arter the book at all.

Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

You knows you has only stepped from my boosing-ken to another, and you has not been arter the book at all.

Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He accordingly set sail on the 4th of October, after having spent forty-five days at New Archangel boosing and bargaining with its roystering commander, and right glad was he to escape from the clutches of "this old man of the sea."

Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains 1836

He accordingly set sail on the 4th of October, after having spent forty-five days at New Archangel boosing and bargaining with its roystering commander, and right glad was he to escape from the clutches of "this old man of the sea."

Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains Washington Irving 1821

Prefixed to it, is an indifferent drawing, in india ink, representing the old castle of Vire, now nearly demolished, with Basselin seated at a table along with three of his boosing companions, chaunting his verses "à pleine gorge."

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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