Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobas
Literary usage of Bobas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notices of Brazil in 1828 and 1829 by Robert Walsh (1831)
"Alarm of People, and Clergy refuse to attend.—Ascertained to be common Fever.—Small-Pox
very fatal.—Sciatica, bobas, communicated by singular Contagion. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"If one of them chances to settle upon the corner of the eye or mouth, or upon
the most trifling scratch, it is enough to inoculate the bobas, if the insect ..."
3. Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster (1817)
"to me, until a slave of eight years of age was reported to me to have the bobas;
and shortly afterwards an old man, the father of this child, likewise fell ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"... and in Spain ( 1564), bobas, which I suppose derived from ... because they
heal inguinal tumors with it, there called bobas ; whence also the Latin name ..."
5. The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. Shepherd (1919)
"The outcome was a collection of crude republics, racked by internal dissension
and torn by mutual jealousy — patrias bobas, or "foolish fatherlands," as one ..."
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