Bohemians

Along with this name, however, the name Bohemians has also been retained; it comes from the old Celtic people, the Boii, who once lived in these regions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

For the next five years he was in Bohemia in private service, longing for home, hating his durance among the heathen, as he called the Bohemians for following John Hus, but lacking courage to make his escape from masters who could send horsemen to scour the countryside for fugitive servants and string them up to trees when caught.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

During all this time, the Kangaroos, as we call the Bohemians, have been playing there, during the fascist regime, the communist regime.

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During all this time, the Kangaroos, as we call the Bohemians, have been playing there, during the fascist regime, the communist regime.

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Una had, from books and newspapers and Walter Babson, learned that there were such things as socialists and earnest pessimists, and the race sketchily called "Bohemians" -- writers and artists and social workers, who drank claret and made love and talked about the free theater, all on behalf of the brotherhood of man.

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

With this apparition, of which I took only a very rapid observation through my half-closed eyelids, I was greatly astonished; for she was an exact resemblance to those bold Egyptian queans who were at first called Bohemians, but are nothing better than thieves and vagabonds, if indeed they be not the chosen people of the prince of darkness himself.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

On the continent they are almost universally called Bohemians, and regarded as the descendants of those unfortunate exiles, who were driven out of that kingdom in the religious wars.

Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney

These were called Bohemians, and the French have adhered to that name ever since.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

The Bohemians are the champion gymnasts of the world and athletic contests were arranged at every station, until at the call of a bugle the train would pull out, picking up sweating, happy men as it gathered speed.

World's War Events $v Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. 1902

Patty began to realise the Bohemians were a boisterous lot.

Patty Blossom Carolyn Wells 1902