bonifaces

Updated: May 8, 2025

The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the inn upon the poor gudewife was very common among the Scottish Bonifaces.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete

The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the inn upon the poor gudewife, was very common among the Scottish Bonifaces.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

You may see, if you have spiritual eyes wherewith to see, the Dragon, the serpent, symbol of political craft and the devilish wisdom of the Roman, giving authority to the Beast, the symbol of brute power; to mongrel AEtiuses and Bonifaces, barbarian Stilichos, Ricimers and Aspars, and a host of similar adventurers, whose only strength was force.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the inn upon the poor gudewife was very common among the Scottish Bonifaces.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 1

They continued ministering to the needs of the horny-handed sons of toil. But the police miserable time-servers would do their duty; they were forced to uphold the Colonel's law, and to requisition the services of the celebrated local "trappers." The rebel Bonifaces were thus duly indicted, arraigned before the Summary Court, and heavily fined or deprived of their licenses.

T. Phelan - The Siege of Kimberley