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Definition of Bossily
1. bossy [adv] - See also: bossy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bossily
Literary usage of Bossily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"... is an island in the Forth, near Queensferry ; bossily attached to the parish
of Dalmeny, co. ..."
2. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (1911)
"about three feet wide in most places, widening here and there into pools six or
eight feet in diameter with no apparent current, the banks bossily rounded ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1852)
"On Ike Oct. 24, 1799; but Ike bossily estate 111th of January, 183e, he became
Lord kso'ing been ..."
4. The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore (1906)
"Pull it off, Archie B.," said his sister bossily, " I'm goin' to stan' by an' see."
Archie B. pulled off his coat deliberately. " That's all right," he said ..."
5. A History of Gothic Art in England by Edward Schröder Prior (1900)
"... gable canopy that was flatly and delicately surfaced in the South, traceried
in a middle border-land, and heavily and bossily contoured in the North. ..."
6. The Father's Tragedy: William Rufus : Loyalty Or Love? by Michael Field (1886)
"How bossily it clusters ! Fool to try Reckon its notches ;—a few sturdy twists
With strength of mid-rib chronicles the type— The burly spread of the ..."
7. A History of Architecture by Fiske Kimball, George Harold Edgell (1918)
"Stone masonry distinguished from smooth ashlar by having the joints sunk, and
sometimes the surface of the stone roughly or bossily finished ..."
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