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  • Even in those early days Selwyn, who went by the sobriquet of "Bosky," had many friends -- not only among college boys, but in London society.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • Here the mandolins were cluttered, and about the walls were such artistic woodiness as branches of bright red berries, then sprays of dark gray bayberry, glowing sumac, deep brown oak leaves, and this applied foliage provided the "Bosky" for the juniors 'pretty dell.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • Marc Carew of Long Tall Texans fame and Richard "Bosky" Allen from Too Many Crooks.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Gordon Gekko, of course, was the now legendary character (loosely based on inside trader Ivan Bosky) in the 1987 film Wall Street.

    Martin Ford: Gordon Gekko on Steriods: How Wall Street Computers Amplify Risk 2010

  • Judith and Jane were responsible for the "Bosky Dell" created around the Inglenook.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • Bosky, with conspicuous pessimism, hoped for the worst from the beginning, and as time went on and nothing was heard of either of the wanderers, some of Mountain

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • Bosky trees lined the road, and the orange light came through the fretwork of their leaves and branches, and made the dust rising from the cattle and the people on the red roads and the deep shadows all aglow with warm, sombre colour; I would I could remember it exactly.

    From Edinburgh to India & Burmah 1900

  • Ornpipe, or the Battle of Navarino, 'when Miss De la Bosky was took ill --

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Dining in was a reasonable request, but he'd be hard pressed to justify the "Gordon Bosky" on his bell or the disparity between his address and the one to which she'd sent her query.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Lionel Shriver 2011

  • Saraswati Nambirajan, vice president, JP Morgan, Mumbai, threw her German Shepherd Bosky a party when she turned one.

    Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views' 2010

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