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Example sentences for "boodle"

Lexicographically close words:
boob; boobies; boobs; booby; bood; booed; booful; booing; book; bookbinder
  1. His family wants to get in the swim, and Reggie is turning the trick for them; and, after all, what better way is there for De Boodle to get in?

  2. Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.

  3. Billy received the boodle as if it had been chewing gum or a soiled handkerchief, and stuffed it indifferently into his already bulging pocket in a crumple as if it were not worth the effort.

  4. In the case of success, and the boodle being considerable, you must trust us to make you such a present or solatium as shall in my opinion repay you for any risks you may have run.

  5. The first boat with the sailors already in it, the boodle in its linen bags gleaming ghostily in a tumbled heap at the bottom, was just pushing off.

  6. These belong entirely to capitalist parties with their bosses and their boodle and have no place in a party whose shibboleth is emancipation.

  7. Parker as a liar for charging that the trusts were furnishing the boodle to make him president, but no man not feeble-minded was deceived as to who was the liar.

  8. The allusions to Boodle Hall were innumerable, and I don't know any greater bore than to be obliged to talk of a place which belongs to one's elder brother.

  9. In those days Sir George Thrum was the first great musical teacher of London, and the royal patronage brought him a great number of fashionable pupils, of whom Lady Fitz-Boodle was one.

  10. Boodle Hall--my husband's old friend; of Charles I.

  11. I had rather that Mrs. Fitz-Boodle should read "Humphry Clinker!

  12. After coffee her husband begged her to let Mr. Fitz-Boodle hear her voice: "He longs for some of his old favourites.

  13. Of course it was the boodle that kept him at work, doubtless meaning to leave when he got better.

  14. But this old printed paper doesn't tell exactly where the boodle was hid, except that it was close to a big hemlock and under a big rock.

  15. The aristocracy of boodle is the slimmest aristocracy of all.

  16. Without brains, business would go to the dogs, for if business were conducted by men of birth and boodle without brains, you can easily see that the whole fabric would fall to pieces.

  17. Even those who belong to the aristocracies of birth and boodle find they are sham counterfeits and many of them turn to study and to good impulses hoping they may get into the lodge of the aristocracy of brain.

  18. Brains--Birth--Boodle One of the weaknesses of the human race is envy.

  19. The aristocracies of birth and boodle are sham counterfeits gotten up by man.

  20. In business the aristocracy of birth or the aristocracy of boodle is a decided handicap.

  21. Boodle had none of that hectoring, domineering way which Hugh never quite threw off in his intercourse with his brother.

  22. It was thus that Captain Boodle instructed his friend Archie Clavering how to woo Lady Ongar; and Archie, as he listened to his friend's words of wisdom, felt that he had learned a great deal.

  23. Boodle was playing pool at the Rag, and Archie joined him; but pool is a game which hardly admits of confidential intercourse as to proposed wives, and Archie was obliged to remain quiet on that subject all the afternoon.

  24. Captain Boodle says he knows a cousin of yours, Mr. Clavering.

  25. But her diligence had been so great that when Captain Boodle called the next morning at twelve o'clock she was still in bed.

  26. Even if Schmoff and Boodle had not been there, he could hardly have discussed Lady Ongar's private affairs in such a room as that.

  27. So had he expressed himself plaintively, endeavoring to excuse himself when on some occasion a race had been won by some outside horse which Captain Boodle had omitted to make safe in his betting-book.

  28. He cunningly, however, lost a little money to Boodle, for Boodle liked to win, and engaged himself to dine at the same table with his friend.

  29. The reader, perhaps, will have a more correct idea of this lady than Captain Boodle had been able to obtain.

  30. Captain Boodle would, I think, have been happier had he contrived to get himself employed as a tax-gatherer or an attorney's clerk.

  31. Boodle had no shame in not having this or that because it was dear.

  32. It was sent abroad at great outlay of boodle to ascertain what is perfectly well-known to every man outside the insane asylum, viz.

  33. Still, boodle does not map out all the social metes and bounds.

  34. Boodle colored, and corrected himself, saying he would have them let out.

  35. William Boodle has been dead, some twenty years.

  36. Boodle was a member of the Legislature; and the fits were upon him, during the sessions.

  37. Boodle was elected, and awoke the next morning, less surprised by the event, than at the extraordinary fact, that his talents had been overlooked, so long.

  38. Afterwards he told me, with many hesitations, that my room at Boodle Hall had been made into a second nursery.

  39. The "Fitz-Boodle Papers" first appeared in Fraser's Magazine for the year 1842.

  40. Fitz-Boodle is as good a name as any in England.

  41. Does not every dowager in London point to George Fitz-Boodle as to a dissolute wretch whom young and old should avoid?

  42. My brother, after he came to the estate, married the ninth daughter of our neighbor, Sir John Spreadeagle; and Boodle Hall has seen a new little Fitz-Boodle with every succeeding spring.

  43. I wish that horrid Sir John Todcaster had not begun his story of the exciseman, for Lady Fitz-Boodle always quits the table when he begins.

  44. But it had like to have cost the nursery-maid (a Swiss girl that Fitz-Boodle hired somewhere in his travels) her place.

  45. My father had taken a second wife (of the noble house of Flintskinner), and Lady Fitz-Boodle detested smoking, as a woman of her high principles should.

  46. A pretty figure would George Fitz-Boodle or any other man of fashion cut, in a jacket covered with sugar-loafed buttons, and handing in penny-post notes on a silver tray.

  47. He has a small income from his mother (I cannot but think that the first Lady Fitz-Boodle was a weak and misguided person); let him live upon his mean pittance as he can, and I heartily pray we may not hear of him in gaol!

  48. Coffey was one of the boodle Supervisors who had at the test refused "to go back on his class.

  49. From all sides the Prosecution was importuned to oust the "boodle Supervisors.

  50. But the fact that a "boodle Mayor" would then appoint their successors was not given such wide publicity.

  51. We get the highfliers from Cuba and Mexico and the couple of Americas farther south; and they've simply got the boodle to bombard every bulfinch in the bush with.

  52. Haven't skipped out with the boodle yet, I see.

  53. Going to cop the whole boodle tomorrow, was you?

  54. Mr. Boodle strongly objected to the practice of dealing in Stock and Exchequer bills, and of exchanging one for the other.

  55. Mr. Boodle dwelt upon the reputed losses which the country had sustained through the Savings Banks, and declared that if there had been any loss, it had been occasioned by the State not treating the funds exclusively as Trust Funds.

  56. Mr. Boodle was for allowing part of the money to be otherwise invested than with Government.

  57. In this matter, Mr. Boodle undoubtedly had the best of it.

  58. Samoa and the Samoans for children (letters to Miss Boodle on), xxv.

  59. Mellinger takes up the bundle of boodle and slams it in the governor man's face.

  60. By the blessing of the literary telegraph the boodle of this benighted fatherland shall be preserved to the honest political party that is seeking to overthrow it.

  61. We've just located Andrews there--Sam Andrews of the Boodle Bank.

  62. You mustn't forget Sam Andrews and the Boodle Bank.

  63. Peggy heard her husband's somewhat immature voice stating the circumstances of the wreck of the Boodle Bank.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boodle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.