Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonneting
Literary usage of Bonneting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scots Digest of the Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and by John Condie Steewart Sandeman (1905)
"Auction—White-bonneting—Right of Exposer to Bid—Joint Owners—Set and Sale of ...
Auction — White-bonneting — Failure- to Buy in.—An agreement between the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Central Criminal Court (1835)
"This witness explained, that, by the term "bonneting," he meant that the persons
were striking each other upon the hat, so as to drive the hat down over the ..."
3. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"... this he gave a further proof of his dexterity by bonneting the slumbering
potentate with a bladder. This was too much for the khan. ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... it seems—they have collected in the churchyard, and are bonneting all the
Aristocrats (an Aristocrat, for them, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1873)
"They are keeping it precious dark, and no mistake. Not that I think the old Squire
means bonneting in the business ; he's too ..."
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