10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOOTIKIN»
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A short history of mediaeval peoples: from the dawn of the ...
In connection with the mutiny on the Rhine we first hear of Caligula (Bootikin),
who was destined to succeed Tiberius. His name was Gaius and he was the
youngest son of Germanicus. He was at that time in the camp with his mother
Agrippina ...
2
A dictionary of English synonymes and synonymous or parallel ...
Bootikin, ». I. Bootee, half-boot, short boot. 2» Half-glove, soft glove, mitten {made
of oiled skin for gouty persons) . Bootless, a. Useless, unavailing, fruitless, futi'e,
unprofitable, profitless, valueless, worthless, ineffectual, abortive, vain, idle, ...
Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison, 1915
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THE LETTERS OF HORACE WALPOLE EARL OF ORFORD
Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually
upon it, which has no distinction of fingers : so I no longer see any miracle in
Buckinger,1 who was famous for writing without hands or feet ; as it was
indifferent ...
4
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually
upon it, which has no distinction of fingers : so I no longer see any miracle in
Buckinger,1 who was famous for writing without hands or feet ; as it was
indifferent ...
Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham, 1906
5
Correspondence with George Montagu (etc.) New Ed. with ...
:Take notice, I write so much better without fingers .than with, that I advise you to
try a bootikin. To be sure, theoperation. is 'a little slower; hut-to a prisoner, the
duratiomof his amusement is of far more consequence than the vivacity of vit.
Earl of Orford Walpole (Horace), 1837
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The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including ...
Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually
upon it, which has no distinction of fingers: so I no longer see any miracle in
Buckinger, who was famous for writing without hands or feet ; as it was indifferent
...
Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron), 1840
7
The Letters of Horace Walpole: Fourth Earl of Orford
I sometimes have rheumatic pains in the shoulder in the evening, and a bootikin
on my hand immediately removes it. I should hope it would be as efficacious for
the head, should it return thither, contrary to my earnest wishes. The decision of ...
Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham, 1906
8
A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: ...
Bootikin, *. A dimin. used in the same sense with the preceding verb. " He came
above deck and said, why are you so discouraged? You neednot fear, there
willneitherthum- bikin nor bootikin come here." Walker's Peden, p. 26. The term
does ...
Observe, too, that this is written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually
upon it, which has no distinction of fingers : so I no longer see any miracle in
Buck- inger, who was famous for writing without hands or feet [as it was
indifferent ...
Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.), 1837
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, ...
Observe, too, that this is- written with my own right hand, with the bootikin actually
upon it, which has no distinction of fingers: so I no longer see any miracle in Buck
- inger, who was famous for writing without hands or feet [as it was indifferent ...
Horace Walpole, George Montagu, 1837
