Boches

(M. de Charlus put the same sort of arrogance into his tone in pronouncing the word boches as he did formerly in the train to Balbec when he alluded to men whose taste is not for women,) “Moreover, did you observe the tricks Norpois made use of in opening his articles on neutrals ever since 1914? ❋ Unknown (2003)

"For four days previous to Monday, September 7," he said, "we were engaged in clearing out the German 'boches' from all the villages on the left bank of the Ourcq, which they had occupied in order to protect the flank of their right wing." ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)

“Ask les boches — we always show our visitors a bon temps,” he said, using the French term for a good time. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Keep a sharp eye on those boches across the river." ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

"You'll have all the fighting that's good for you by the time we've driven the boches over the Rhine." ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

I tell you he's the stuff that will take 'em over the top and make the boches feel cold in the pit of their fat tumtums when they see him coming. ❋ Margaret Rebecca Piper (N/A)

Then the boches came swinging at us, and in the excitement I suppose he forgot all about it. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

I've got to get busy now and get even with the boches for that crack on the head they gave me. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

But few of the boches got back to their own line and no prisoners were taken. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)

"That's because we've tackled the boches and taken their measure," commented Frank. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

It is worth better that I have hunger, it is worth better that I be made dead by the boches, than to be like one little mendicant. ❋ Marguerite Bernard (N/A)

I went back and began to plan ways and means of "getting" Charlie's ten boches, but a day or two later something happened to alter my scheme to a certain extent. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)

He make two boches prisoners and catch them with one hand because the other had the very bad hurt. ❋ Marguerite Bernard (N/A)

Inside the building was a dead French soldier who, as we figured it out, had accounted for the eight boches before they got him. ❋ Herbert Wes McBride (N/A)

Monsieur Teddy soon will go beat himself [21] with the boches! ❋ Marguerite Bernard (N/A)

He was flying over the lines, and he was amazed, one day, to see that the French guns were not firing on the boches but on the French themselves. ❋ Unknown (1928)

With a supremely disagreeable expression on his immaculate face the victorious minister of security pressed his victim with regained assurance: "But you are doubtless aware of the atrocities committed by the boches?" ❋ Unknown (1928)

All this because the Cook thinks we're boches and being the Cook and a boche _lui-même_ is consequently peculiarly concerned for our welfare. ❋ Unknown (1928)

But Jacques went right on, talking, talking -- about the right flank and the left flank and the boches and the Americans. ❋ Various (1915)

Immediately I was put in command, and the first thing I did was to go below with Olson and inspect the craft thoroughly for hidden boches and damaged machinery. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)