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  • If them animals had been alive and savage enough I would have taken 'em up to the state committee-room and ste 'boyed 'em onto the ungrateful cusses who have tried to make my last days unhappy.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

  • Today he bully-boyed Governors Rendell and Casey about Hillary and Obama respectively.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ed Gorman 2008

  • Today he bully-boyed Governors Rendell and Casey about Hillary and Obama respectively.

    Bill Crider; Richard Matheson; Politics Ed Gorman 2008

  • The one that had to be boyed up and the slab of fish w/daisies are up there.

    Meet the Snark Behind the Curtain Jen 2008

  • Several years ago, some experimental all-boy elementary classes were proposed to test the premise that boys could do better in school if their learning environment was "boyed up" to better conform to how they learn.

    Single Sex Schools and Classrooms Matt Johnston 2007

  • During their weekend in Amsterdam, Lieutenants Andrew Avery and Vincent Manielli had seen tulips in every color imaginable and looked at plenty of fine paintings and flirted with page-boyed blondes who had round, rosy faces (Manielli, at least; Avery being contentedly married).

    Garden of Beasts Deaver, Jeffery 2004

  • And is this mere capacity itself to be lightly boyed?

    The Flirt 1912

  • I am the stature of a man; had it not been for your razor I should wear the beard of a man; therefore I'll not be boyed.

    The Flirt 1912

  • I am the stature of a man; had it not been for your razor I should wear the beard of a man; therefore I'll not be boyed.

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

  • And is this mere capacity itself to be lightly _boyed_?

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

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