boots
Example Sentences
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Why, once over on Snake River, when Andrew McWilliams' saddle horse got the botts, he sent a buckboard ten miles for one of these strangers that claimed to be a botanist.
From Heart of the West by Henry, O.
What the devil aileth him? now truly, I think plain, He hath either some worms or botts in his brain.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
"He's got the botts—drench him for the botts," another prescribed.
From Trail's End by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
If you have a good remedy for botts, you must get a botty horse somewhere and try the remedy before you submit it.
From Remarks by Nye, Bill
Jones said that horse hadn't the epizooty, but the botts, and that the turpentine ought to have been rubbed on the outside of him instead of going into his stomach.
From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Clark, Charles Heber
