boke
Britishverb
noun
Etymology
Origin of boke
Middle English bolken ; related to belch , German bölken to roar
Example Sentences
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To use vernacular that our Scottish readers will no doubt be familiar with, it's enough to give you the boke.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013
If I should particularly ouerrũne but the common sortes of men, which put their felicitie in their desires, it wold make a great boke of it self.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Robert Record
It is printed in two lines, and reads:— “A passing gode lityll boke necessarye & behouefull agenst the Pestilens.”
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
By whiche occasion manye more died in 30 the fyrste pestilence at Athenes, that I spake of in the beginnynge of thys boke, then other wyse should.
From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by John Caius
The second boke shall be of lettres missyves in prose and in ryme.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
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