During the weeks that followed he had ample opportunity for philosophical studies of the cheering-booing propensity of human nature.
Daily reports were brought in of arrests, of fines and imprisonments for picketing, or sometimes merely for booing at the remnant of those who still clung to their employment.
You were doing exactly as Mr. Brent ordered, when thebooing broke out.
He said: "When the booing began and you didn't break down and run off the stage, I knew that what I hoped and believed about you was true.
Whereupon loud booing testified to the audience's horror of anything approaching unruly behaviour.
Only a moment was she arrested by either booing or applause.
In the chorus of cheers and booing some one sang out, 'He's a jolly good fellow!
As the rest of the staff crowded around Tarb, leaping and booing as appreciatively as any girl could want, she managed to snatch a rapid look around.
Too many of the younger members of the staff kept booing at her as they passed, and now they had formed the habit of dropping in to offer her advice, encouragement and invitations to meals.
And the booing hushed, and the gloom lightened, and the garden-roller glimmered faintly in the moonlit summer night, and inside the lawn-mower lay the God of the Period crying with uncontrollable laughter.
All at once the giggles turned into the booing of Philistines, and there was a fantastic shadowy horseplay, which rolled nearer and nearer.
The booingchanged into loud, ironical cheers: "What yer bin doin' all day?
There was hooting and booing and banging of plates until pandemonium reigned once more.
The Grey Pumpkin was carried to the gates of the City, escorted by a solemn procession, and thrown into a ditch outside the walls, amid much hissing and booing from the populace.
When Dinewan reached the place where Goomblegubbon was, she stopped her booing and said in a solemn tone, "Now you see my words are true, I have twelve young ones, as I said.
Booing groups had already begun to gather at the entrance of the yards, and in the side street to which it led.
There wasn't any need to shoot, because the crowd had now fallen back in alarm, and were only booing and yelling and throwing stones.
Once the Duke of York's was called out; and the booing and murring at it were great enough to have daunted even him.
