Word: boney
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...Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent appearances of Caroline, strangling her ravishers with whips and pointing loaded pistols at them from her naked hip, make this novel unsuitable for school study...
...General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses the English of fabricating carcinoma, to quiet the Boney faction, and to get off the hook of cruelty to an eminent prisoner by confining him in an unhealthy place...
...starting lineups: HARVARD NAVY Gannon, cf 2b, Armstrong Crosby, c cf, Searle Mannino, ss lf, Hawkins Coulson, 1b rf, Frahler Lunder, lf 3b, Boney Caulfield, rf 1b, Brendle Huntington, 2b ss, Buck Coppinger, 3b c, Morrissey Connolly, p p, Rensberger
...Horatio does stay at sea long enough to dampen Flame's mutiny and to steal a fully laden French West Indiaman right out from under Boney's nose. That done, he goes ashore in France-where Novelist Forester finishes him off with a peerage, Bourbon pals and an indirect, improbable part in the victory at Waterloo...
There are Lancashire Fusiliers, whose motto is "Bold in Everything." They got their name from fusils, which were lighter muskets than the old matchlocks. They had the honor of guarding Napoleon on St. Helena, and their Doctor Arnott attended Boney as he wasted away...