1818, John Smith with John Doe, quoting Richard Roe, “Beauty”, in George Crabb, editor, English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers[1], 2nd edition, volume I (non-fiction; hardcover), Others, London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; and T[homas] Boosey, translation of French Synonymes by Jane Doe, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 February 2016, pages 162–163:
1818, George Crabb, editor, English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers[2], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; and T[homas] Boosey, →OCLC, pages 162–163:
Booty and prey are often used in an extended sense. Plunderers obtain a rich booty ; the diligent bee returns loaded with its booty.
1818, George Crabb, Andrew Crabb, editors, English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious Illustrations and Examples Drawn from the Best Writers[3], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; and T[homas] Boosey, →OCLC, page 162:
Booty and prey are often used in an extended sense. Plunderers obtain a rich booty ; the diligent bee returns loaded with its booty.
1887, John Harrison Mills, chapter 10, in Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers[4], page 204:
The midday echoes reply drowsily, the solitary horseman curses and “clattawa’s” up the road as though suddenly impressed with the idea that somebody is hooking his dinner over the hill […]
An. Nevertheless, Hades desires these rites. / Cr. But the good desires not a like portion with the evil. / An. Who knows but this seems blameless in the world below?
