The 126 occurrences of boner
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sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence; hots, horns [coll]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.
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He is a beef-boner, and that is a dangerous trade, especially when you are on piecework and trying to earn a bride.
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There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
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Of the butchers and floorsmen, the beef-boners and trimmers, and all those who used knives, you could scarcely find a person who had the use of his thumb; time and time again the base of it had been slashed, till it was a mere lump of flesh against which the man pressed the knife to hold it.
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He can just say that he didn't understand the question and...." "I've already done that with the panel but I can't keep up forever explaining away every boner they pull.
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Thus, whenever you have guests for dinner, the children can play "Boner" which consists in watching the visitor closely all during the meal in order to catch him in any irregularity in table etiquette.
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As soon as the guest has committed a mistake, the first Child to discover it points his finger at him and shouts, "Pulled a Boner, Pulled a Boner!" and the boy or girl who discovers the greatest number of "Boners" during the evening is rewarded with a prize, based on the following table of points: If the guest has dirty hands, 5 points.
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He said the Navy had taken all the boners, while we deserved them all.
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You can be the broken boner; we can get at your legs more easily, because you don't wear petticoats."
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Peter's the broken boner, and I was the doctor."
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If I stay on in London, I am likely at any moment to pull some boner like last night's which will spill the beans for you once more.
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"pull some boner" has been corrected from "pull some bone" in the US edition.
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Other masculine characters, besides the horns, are sometimes similarly transferred to the female; thus Mr. Boner, in speaking of an old female chamois ('Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria,' 1860, 2nd ed., p. 363), says, "not only was the head very male-looking, but along the back there was a ridge of long hair, usually to be found only in bucks.")
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'Forest Creatures,' by C. Boner, 1861, p.
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Mr. Boner, in his excellent description of the habits of the red-deer in Germany ('Forest Creatures,' 1861, p. 81) says, "while the stag is defending his rights against one intruder, another invades the sanctuary of his harem, and carries off trophy after trophy."
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Boner, C., on the transfer of male characters to an old female chamois; on the habits of stags; on the pairing of red deer.
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Mr. Boner speaks ('Chamois-hunting' 2nd edition 1860 page 92) of sheep often running wild in the Bavarian Alps; but, on making further inquiries at my request, he found that they are not able to establish themselves; they generally perish from the frozen snow clinging to their wool, and they have lost the skill necessary to pass over steep icy slopes.
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BONER, Mr., semi-feral sheep.
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Mr. Boner speaks ('Chamois-hunting,' 2nd edit., 1860, p. 92) of sheep often running wild in the Bavarian Alps; but, on making further inquiries at my request, he found that they are not able to establish themselves; they generally perish from the frozen snow clinging to their wool, and they have lost the skill necessary to pass over steep icy slopes.
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BONER, Mr., semi-feral sheep, 13 .
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In Picardy, as late as 1743, the relatives threw themselves on the corpse and with loud cries called it by name, and up to 1855 the Moravians of Pennsylvania, at the death of one of their number, performed mournful musical airs on brass instruments from the village church steeple and again at the grave [Footnote: The writer is informed by Mr. John Henry Boner that this custom still prevails not only in Pennsylvania, but at the Moravian settlement of Salem, North Carolina.]
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JOHN HENRY BONER.
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"The one was Mrs. Frances, the eldest; the second, Mrs. Roberts; the third, Mrs. Boner.
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* * * * * _Somewheres in France, April 6._ FRIEND AL: Well Al 1 of the Chi newspapers is getting out a paper in Paris and printed in English and I just seen a copy of it where the Allys has finely got wise to themself and made 1 man gen. of all the Allys and it was a sucker play to not do that long ago only it looks to me like they pulled another boner by makeing a Frenchman the gen. and I suppose they done it for a complement to the Frenchmens on acct.
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Captain Butch Brewster, big Beef McNaughton, the Phillyloo Bird--that flamingo-like Senior--and little Theophilus Opperdyke, the timorous boner whom Bannister College called the "Human Encyclopedia," roosted on the sacred Senior Fence, between the Gymnasium and the Administration Building.
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Little Theophilus Opperdyke, whose big-rimmed spectacles, high forehead, and bushy hair gave him an intensely owlish appearance, sighed tremendously, stared solemnly at his class-mates, and became the author of a most astounding statement: "I--I can't study," quavered the "boner," he whose tender devotion to his books was a campus tradition, and whose loyalty to his firm friend, the blithesome Hicks, was as that of Damon to Pythias, "I just can't care about my studies, without Hicks here!
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In his Freshman first term, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., indignant at the way little Theophilus Opperdyke, the timorous, nervous "grind," had been alarmed at the idea of being hazed, had by a sensational escape from a room locked, guarded, and filled with Sophomores, gained immunity for himself and the boner for all time, thus winning the loyal, pathetic devotion of the Human Encyclopedia.
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"Say, fellows--some time Thor will accidentally sit on Theophilus, and we'll have another mystery, the disappearance of our boner!"
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A generous, sunny-souled, intensely democratic collegian, despite his father's wealth, the festive Hicks, with his room always open-house to all; his firm friendship for star athlete or humble boner, his never-failing sunny nature, together with his famous Hicks Personally Conducted Expeditions downtown to the Beef-Steak Busts he had originated, in his three years at old Bannister, had made himself the most popular and beloved youth on the campus, but, he had not won his B!
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He has more influence over Thor than any other student, and the big fellow likes the little boner.
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Then Hicks carefully outlined to the dazed little boner the substance of the coach's talk to the team, and Theophilus was alarmed when he thought of Thor's being dropped from the squad.
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That the huge Freshman, of all the collegians, should have chosen the timorous little boner was most puzzling.
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They loved this pathetic little boner, who, because of his pitifully frail body, could never fight for old Bannister on gridiron, diamond, or track, and they tremendously admired him for working for his college and for the redemption of Thor.
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In fact, it had been the boner's suggestion that gave Hicks his needed inspiration.
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The Senior boner gave a correct imitation of the offending Hicks, in that he skulked out, gazing around him nervously; but he portaged no pigskin, and, unlike the sunny youth, on periscoping Butch, he seemed relieved.
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Bewildered, and gradually guessing the explanation from the shivering little boner's alarmed expression, the gladsome youth approached the stern Butch Brewster, who was about to condemn him for his silence.
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If I hadn't pulled that boner, Skeet would be here, and the regular right-fielder would have had that fly.
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Note 41: At this time the Prince of Wales and his brother Frederick Augustus, Duke of York, were living in seclusion at Boner Lodge, Kew, where their education was being conducted by Doctor Hurd, Bishop of Lichfield, Mr. Arnold, and Lord Bruce.
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We doubt not, however, that, were a genuine poet of this age taking up the "Chase" as a subject for song, and availing himself of the accounts of recent travellers, themselves often true poets, such as Lloyd, Livingstone, Cumming Bruce, and Charles Boner, (see the admirable "Chamois Hunting in Bavaria" of the latter,) he would produce a strain incomparably higher than Somerville's.
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; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.
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; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on, boner.
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bonds of harmony: - concord 714 N. bonds: - securities 799b N. - servant 746 N. - treasury 802 N. bondslave: - servant 746 N. bondsman: - servant 746 N. bondswoman: - servant 746 N. bone house: - interment 363 N. bone of contention: - discord 713 N. - contention 720 N. - inquiry 461 N. bone to pick: - difficulty 704 N. - discord 713 N. - resentment 900 N. bone: - density 321 N. - strength 159 N. - hardness 323 N. boner: - sexuality 374a N. bones: - corpse 362 N. - musical instruments 417 N. boneset: - remedy 662 N. bonesetter: - remedy 662 N. bonfire: - celebration 883 N. - heat 382 N. - amusement 840 N. bonhomie: - artlessness 703 N. - benevolence 906 N. Boniface: - friend 890 N. Bonjour: - clothing 225 N. bon-mot: - wit 842 N. bonnet rouge: - disobedience 742 N. bonnet: - clothing 225 N. bonny: - cheerfulness 836 Adj.
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[Footnote 70: The writer is informed by Mr. John Henry Boner that the custom still prevails not only in Pennsylvania, but at the Moravian settlement of Salem, N.C.] [Footnote 71: Rep Smithsonian Inst., 1806, p.319] [Footnote 72: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1874, v. II, p. 774, _et seq._] [Footnote 73: Hist.
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BONER, ULRICH, a German fabulist and Dominican monk of the 14th century, author of "Der Edelstein" (The Jewel), a book of fables.
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And those "Last Days of Kant," how affecting they are, and how thoroughly in every line and in every thought, agree with him or not, (and in all that relates to Napoleon I differ from him, as in his overestimate of Wordsworth and of Coleridge), one always feels how thoroughly and completely he is a gentleman as well as a great writer; and so much has _that_ to do with my admiration, that I have come to tracing personal character in books almost as a test of literary merit: Charles Boner's "Chamois-Hunting," for instance, owes a great part of its charm to the resolute truth of the writer, and a great drawback from the attraction of "My Novel" seems to me to be derived from the _blasé_ feeling, the unclean mind from whence it springs, felt most when trying after moralities.
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Mr. Boner, my dear and valued friend, wishes you and dear Mr. Ticknor to print his "Chamois-Hunting" from a second edition which Chapman and Hall are bringing out.
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Whereas by an act of Congress entitled "An act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to representation in Congress," passed on the 25th day of June, 1868, it is declared that it is made the duty of the President, within ten days after receiving official information of the ratification by the legislature of either of said States of a proposed amendment to the Constitution known as article fourteen, to issue a proclamation announcing that fact; and Whereas the said act seems to be prospective; and Whereas a paper purporting to be a resolution of the legislature of Florida adopting the amendment of the thirteenth and fourteenth articles of the Constitution of the United States was received at the Department of State on the 16th of June, 1868, prior to the passage of the act of Congress referred to, which paper is attested by the names of Horatio Jenkins, jr., as president _pro tempore_ of the senate, and W.W. Moore as speaker of the assembly, and of William L. Apthoop, as secretary of the senate, and William Forsyth Bynum, as clerk of the assembly, and which paper was transmitted to the Secretary of State in a letter dated Executive Office, Tallahassee, Fla., June 10, 1868, from Harrison Reed, who therein signs himself governor; and Whereas on the 6th day of July, 1868, a paper was received by the President, which paper, being addressed to the President, bears date of the 4th day of July, 1868, and was transmitted by and under the name of W.W. Holden, who therein writes himself governor of the State of North Carolina, which paper certifies that the said proposed amendment, known as article fourteen, did pass the senate and house of representatives of the general assembly of North Carolina on the 2d day of July instant, and is attested by the names of John H. Boner, or Bower, as secretary of the house of representatives, and T.A.
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You old boner, you've never been but to three hops!
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Observations made during the foregoing Voyage, by Mr Copland, Chaplain, Mr Robert Boner, Master, and Mr Nicholas Whittington, Merchant §1.
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Notes extracted from the Journal of Mr Robert Boner, who was Master of the Dragon §3.
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_Observations made during the foregoing Voyage, by Mr Copland, Chaplain, Mr Robert Boner, Master, and Mr Nicholas Whittington, Merchant_.
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_Notes concerning the Voyage, extracted from the Journal of Mr Robert Boner, who was Master of the Dragon_.
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But Paule sayeth that wyues shoulde bee boner and buxome vnto their husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also bryngethe vs an example of Sara, that called her husbande Abrahame, Lorde.
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I--I object to these man-boners.
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Bona fides ... Boner-fy-dees.
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"Someone you have to meet," he said, reaching down to rearrange his pants to hide his boner.
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To put the statistical figures in another way, Mr. Boner,[8] writing in 1865, calculates that the Roumains, naturalised in Southern Hungary, number 596 out of every 1000 souls in Transylvania.
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"The Wallacks find it too much trouble to fell the trees," says Mr Boner.
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Judging from what I saw during my travels in Hungary in 1875-76, I should say the evil described by Mr Boner ten years before has in no way abated.
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Certain it is that the name and fame of many of the great Romans are still known to the Wallacks; and the story is told by Mr Boner, that they have a catechism which teaches the children to say that they have Ovid and Virgil for their ancestors, and that they are descended from demigods!
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"They are all 'noble,'" says Mr Boner, "and proudly and steadfastly adhere to and uphold their old rights and privileges, such as right of limiting and of pasture.
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"[17] In another place Mr Boner says, "The Szekler soldier, I was told, was 'excessive,' which means extreme, in all he did."
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[Footnote 17: Boner's Transylvania, p.
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When Mr Boner was travelling in Szeklerland he was also, _nolens volens_, raised to the peerage, so I suppose it is a settled conviction of the people that we are all lords in Great Britain.
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"Roger's pulled some boners before, real rocket blasters, but refusing to answer a call from Strong--" He shook his head.
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Boner & Co. Strew Sweet Flowers o'er my Grave: Song and Chorus.
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Boner & Co.
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Boner & Co. Latest and Best Lancers.
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Boner & Co. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1807.
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H. Boner & Co. Weep no More: Song.
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H. Boner & Co. Who is Sylvia?
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H. Boner & Co. Whoa, Emma!
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H. Boner & Co. FOOTNOTES: [A] Lord Beaconsfield is not the first to appreciate the strategic value of Cyprus.
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In introducing "Bartlet, grene breche" as the antithesis to "Boner wepyng," allusion was also probably intended to the honourable position occupied by Barclay amongst the promoters of the Reformation, compared with the reapostacy, the career of brutal cruelty, and the deserved fate of the Jefferies of the Episcopal bench.
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Boner wepyng, Bartlet, grene breche ... Salomon, and Will Sommer.
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By CHARLES BONER.
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This Rough was borne in Scotland, who (as him selfe confesseth in his aunsweres to Boners Articles) because some of his kinsfolke woulde haue kept him from his right of inheritaunce which he had to certaine landes, did at the age of xvij.
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¶ A LETTER SENT FROM THE QUEENES COUNCELL VNTO BONER BISHOP OF LONDON, TOUCHING THE EXAMINATION OF IOHN ROUGH MINISTER.
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Boner now minding to make quicke dispatch, did within three dayes after the receite of the letter (the xviij.
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Translated and dedicated to the Author by CHARLES BONER.
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Translated by CHARLES BONER.
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H. BONER & Co., Agts, No.
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Ferd was onto that boner like an infielder.
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Boner, 183/191.
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Charles Boner, in his work on Transylvania, says that even the aged find it impossible to resist the dance when a gypsy band invites them to it.
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Then there was Anamanamona Mike,--he was an Irishman from Hullaboo,--and Barcelona Boner,--he was a Spanish chap, and boned everything he could lay his hands on.
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He heard his name called, and turning, saw Mr. Boner standing at the corner of the partition looking at him over his spectacles.
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Mr. Boner was a tall, heavy man with nervous twitchings and anxious eyes that were eternally shifting about beneath their brows for something disturbing.
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Joe rose to his feet, obeying the monosyllabic summons, and followed Mr. Boner around the partition.
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Mr. Boner rated a private office, where he could worm information, trade secrets, and occasional concessions from travelling salesmen.
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Suddenly Mr. Boner turned to the inner corner of the desk, started to speak, strangled, and with difficulty recovered himself.
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In fact, Mr. Boner was himself a study.
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Joe realized that Mr. Boner was speaking to him--was speaking with great feeling.
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Mr. Boner shoved two sheets of yellow paper across the desk toward him.
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"Waste stock," Mr. Boner muttered.
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Mr. Boner exploded again.
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As he slipped the paper across an intervening table, Mr. Boner straightened from a stooping inspection of a lower desk drawer, and Joe saw him furtively wipe a knife blade on the leg of his trousers and then turn upon him a look of mildest blue.
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Mr. Boner's shoes?
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He punched the time clock viciously as he passed through the office lobby and barely escaped collision with Mr. Boner as he turned the corner of the partition en route to his desk.