He did not send me here to fawn and cringe And coax these boors into good humor.
Twas a favorable year; the boors Can answer fresh demands already.
Are the boors ruined The emperor gains so many more new soldiers.
Sir Yager, I can't but with pity melt, When I think how much among boors you've dwelt.
But it is all one to us, Stephen, and we may make some vantage to-day, for these boors have plundered more than one castle.
Pokers and Quatzners of Anklam and Lassan [Footnote: These people still go about the Achterwater every day in small boats called Polten and Quatzen, and buy from the boors any fish they may have caught.
Here the weeping of the peasants interrupted him, for they loved the good knight dearly, and the rude boors sobbed, and blew their noses, in great affliction, like so many children.
When the unfortunate strangers had thus been led to the most suitable place, the boors tumbled down huge stones upon them from the mountain-top, destroying them, to use their own expression, like potsherds.
Teniers seems anxious to have it known that, far from indulging in the coarse amusements of the boors he is fond of painting, he himself lives in good style and looks like a gentleman.
The old men burst out laughing at that equipage, but the country boors crossed themselves, saying that a Venetian devil was travelling abroad in a German carriage.
The peasants are glad of the chance; when a dog runs into their wheat, if he shakes out ten ears, then you repay three score and are not content even with that; often the boors get a thaler into the bargain.
The Muscovite boors showered on us a hail of bullets from below; we replied from above sparsely, but with better aim.
And when I drew my sabre, then many thousand sabres had glittered round about, striking terror to the lords’ castles,—But now the very children of the peasant boors laughed at me!
The boors pointed their guns at you at first," said the young nobleman, carelessly curling his mustache; "you must have found that a bore.
Before his time men of war were wont to scorn that humble tool, and to look upon such as handled it as boors and rascals.
In private life the old pagan revelled in the lowest pleasures: he passed his Sundays tippling at Richmond; and his holidays bawling after dogs, or boozing at Houghton with boors over beef and punch.
This mode is often adopted by the trek-boors of Southern Africa, when they wish to drive up very precipitous places, where the oxen are afraid to go of themselves.
His soldiers were jeered at by the enemy as mere boors and day labourers who were dishonouring themselves and their profession by the use of that implement instead of the sword.
The rest of the party, transformed in an instant from boors to soldiers, then sprang upon the rest of the guard, overpowered and bound them, and took possession of the gate.
Guy the Stallion came at him with a swaggering rage, and for the moment the boors held back to watch the tussle, such a smiting together of swords not being seen on every day of the week.
It was Isoult’s voice that whipped the boors back.
He pointed with his sword towards the crowd of boors in the doorway.
If she had but left well alone he would have driven the boors like sheep out of the White Lodge.
THE BENCH OF BOORS In bed I muse on Tenier's boors, Embrowned and beery losels all; A wakeful brain Elaborates pain: Within low doors the slugs of boors Laze and yawn and doze again.
Fidus was quite angry with me the other day because I said I was thankful that we had learned to have some appreciation of taste and good form and elegance and that we should never go back to being boors and prudes.
We can take no interest in the boyards of Russia or the boors of Poland; but little in the agas and kuzilbashes of Eastern story.
Martin had, from time to time, sent some of his soldiers into the place, disguised as boors from the neighbourhood, and carrying bags of that article.
But I won't allow your honour's noble family, to whom I owe so much, to be maligned by any pack of boors in the world.
Those boors are always routing it up with their ox-waggons.
The private chamber allotted to me—it was the only one—was bitter cold, but my choice lay between that and the common room below, full of evil smells and reeking boors and stifling stove heat.
Flattened against the walls, the boors stood open-mouthed, all struck with amazement; and the little host was bowing anxiously to the belaced officer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
