How To Use Boon In A Sentence

In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
Other animals, such as waterbucks, kudus, warthogs, and baboons, drank from the same troughs.
The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
But most Western bankers now acknowledge, as Peter Boone, cohead of research at Brunswick Warburg in Moscow puts it, "" that we ignored for too long the size of the nonpayments crisis. '' A Black Hole
As for the primates such as monkeys and baboons, the main effect of the high temperatures is that they lose their appetites.

Keep an eye out for chacma baboons, but don't get too close! The Sun
Running around this landscape of giant heathers, you will also see ostriches, bonteboks, baboons and, if you are lucky, a fly-past from a blue crane.
The senator called the new highways proposal "...a fraud and a boondoggle that the taxpayer should not tolerate".
We are now known as the boodle or boondoggle city. The Chicago Picasso.
But I drift from the point, which is: what is a sane, accomplished, professional clarinet player to do while stuck out in the boondocks?
We are here to make sure their address is correct so that they can get counted in the census when it comes out next year, "said Tom Boone, a retired firefighter who is working as a" lister "in the central part of Billings. Billingsgazette.com
Boone led about thirty axmen through the wilderness to clear a path, which eventually became a route to the new frontier and was called the Wilderness Road. History of American Women
Her father David, a psychologist of increasingly dubious capabilities, decides to start over by moving out to the boonies.
The procession is a boon for shopkeepers in the area, especially restaurateurs.
The second, most likely, since I am heading mostly to the "boonies", but time will tell. Declining Value of the Dollar
In terms of wildlife, you find elephant, buffalo, hippos, baboons, chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds.
He also made a habbit of free handling his huge female gaboon viper. Good Stuff #4: Crazy South African Snake Man
As given at Brunswick, in the last scene the Prophet, John of Leyden, is discovered at supper with some boon companions in rather doubtful female society. The Days Before Yesterday
An added boon is affordable childcare and home cooking. Times, Sunday Times
boon companions
Recently I read a poll asking where all the booners lived in my fair city.
The crater is home to elephant, buffalo, baboon, reedbuck, colobus monkeys, leopard and duikers.
In some areas of Yemen the Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) is still widespread but said to be declining, while the population of Saudi Arabia is expanding and has become common around cities such as Abha and Taif. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
This 'bloody baboonery', as the communists called the highly publicized police performance, was preceded by inspired press reports of evidence - more sensational than the notorious Zinoviev letter, - of a revolutionary plot directed from Moscow to prepare the way for the black republic. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 18
Then Dave Boone and Wally made a stand that roused the perspiring spectators to something like enthusiasm, for Mr. Boone was a mighty "slogger," and Wally had a neat and graceful style that sent the Cunjee supporters into the seventh heaven. Mates at Billabong
In Michigan we ahve a commenrative buck/people who will score our buck ... even though it may not be a booner it is pretty cool to know the score! Can anyone give me a rough idea as to how my buck in the picture here would score?
They included baboons, chimpanzees, and macaques - all known to live in large, mixed-sex groups.
Female baboons tend to form the tightest bonds with their mothers, aunts, and sisters.
The device is a real boon in darkest Norfolk where street lights are a delete option. Times, Sunday Times
Governments, if allowed, will continue to boondoggle along unless there are lawful reforms in place to prevent it.
The Fed has slashed rates 12 times since 2001, producing a boon for fund investors.
The lack of the other cellular components present in these systems is not always a boon, however; sometimes proteins made using the PURE system don't fold properly, and additional proteins called chaperones need to be added to fix this problem. Ars Technica
For battered wives, at least, it would have been a boon.
The lazy days we spent drinking out in the boonies.
Since receiving the baboon marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said.
But unlike the peripheral baboons, who are physically controlled by the dominant ones, the peripheral men are not powerless.
Who else had a voice that could express the rage of a baboon, a leopard and a hippopotamus in one rise and fell swoop? GALILEE
The zoo is 50 years old and still a boon, providing a welcome change of pace when small heads get too spinny.
Richard Boone slaps leather in the classic fifties oater, Have Gun, Will Travel
For the pioneers who set out to confront these lands, following trailblazers like Daniel Boone, the conquest of the West is a story of courage and hardship that forges the character of America.
Charmed by his obliqueness - ‘doing’ and ‘getting’ as euphemisms for fundraising and boondoggling - I told him the name of my book.
Baboon spiders or tarantulas, as they are known outside Africa, are the giants of the spider world.
This fable is serve accentuated by a actuality which a single of Coach Troppmanns teenage football players attended all those camps in Booneville, California as great as expected was sleeping in a nearby cabin when Bryant as great as McKay were figuring out how to change a world. Excerpt from PIGSKIN WARRIORS: 140 YEARS OF THE GAMES GREATEST ...
C (h) ristine Oct 2 so excited! you’re in Seoul trying out the street food.:) if you’re still there try boong-uh-bbang too (little cakes in the shape of fish, stuffed with red bean paste) and other goodies all around. A bite of Seoul street food: Hotteok | Baking Bites
But this really is an exercise in masochism more than anything else, so how about Boone’s Pina Colada with almond joy? Halloween candy: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog
I know the place is in the boonies, but it's easily visible from the highway.
Large troops of gelada baboons roam through the park and graceful Walia Ibex lord over the loftier spots. Ben Colclough: Walking on top of the world
Indeed, the Kindle and other e-readers could be a boon to newspapers.
The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
Besides being fun to eat, pistachio nuts are a boon to our health.
Genetic tests indicate that the viruses came from chimpanzees, baboons, and an African green monkey.
It is a precious boon to be rid of such an unnatural and ominous belief as that in the final disemboguing of the dead by sea and land, the tumbling of the rocks, the falling of the stars, and the everlasting torture of the condemned in a prison of fire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Although every baboon is a distinct, highly individuated self, each seems to exist simultaneously as self-in-community or even as self-in-communion.
As far as many people are concerned your brand of loony left wing tribal politics is just as corrosive and harmful as the EDL's baboonery. The Guardian World News
In the first, because of the large sums obliged to be levied off them, as compensation to those whose cattle were maliciously houghed, or whose houses were burned; and in the latter, because of the great boon (the grant to improve the river) bestowed on Ireland by that government of which Lord Normanby was a prominent member. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
The road improvement scheme was a gigantic boondoggle.
Baboons barked an alarm and thereafter bulbuls, warblers, shrikes, robins and other feathered choirs begun to sing.
Who would have believed, just weeks ago, that America's most famous self-described "oilman," T. Boone Pickens, would be spending millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to convince Americans what had been obvious, but what had been denied by just about every other "oilman" in America: we can't drill our way out of our energy problems. Alan Fein: It's Not Good Luck, It's Consensus
There were a few heavy downfalls, but even they proved a boon to the indoor traders who did a roaring trade when the crowds scurried for shelter in the stands.
Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
These days, I study things like differences in "cultures" between troops of baboons, how the cultures are propagated, the consequences of the differing cultures for the health of individuals. An Interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Three years after Stewart's disappearance, Boone's life was again devastated when a Cherokee tortured and killed his eldest child, 16-year-old James, and later another son, a brother, and a nephew were also killed during the often bloody fighting over the settling of Kentucky. Great American Hunters: Daniel Boone
Shelter, and the usual rude accommodation, supplemented on this occasion by a wandering luti and his vicious-looking baboon, as also a company of riotous charvadars, who insist on singing accompaniments to the luti's soul-harrowing tom-toming till after midnight, are obtained at the caravansarai of Deh Mollah. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
Of course, as a result of this I ended up singing on television variety shows along with Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Pat Boone, even Ethel Merman!
I mean, the sht flinging Baboon is a veritable luminary in the field of politics. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 20, 2010
After all, while it's clear that this fight has been a PR boon to Scottevest, you can't blame them for taking advantage of Delta's censorship (which not incidentally takes place to protect their ability to collect millions of dollars in checked baggage fees). Matt Browner Hamlin: Scottevest vs Delta
He maintained to the day of his death — and the most experienced expressmen agree with him — that there is profit in carrying letters all over the United States at one cent each, and that the government monopoly of the business alone prevents the people from enjoying such a boon. The Volokh Conspiracy » Remembering Lysander Spooner:
But what options did she really have, stuck out here in the boonies this way?
Though aimed primarily at getting locals to use the bicycle as an alternative form of transport around congested streets, the scheme is also a boon for visitors. Times, Sunday Times
(Heather is referring to boong-uh-bbang, which translates to “fish shaped bread.”) Street food scenes from Seoul | Baking Bites
We used to go to bar called the boondocks and drink, dance and shoot pool. Propeller Most Popular Stories
It was shown that the organism could cause conjunctivitis in baboons and, after inoculation in the urethra, a urethritis as well.
The supervisors' broadband/cable/phone proposal is a more straightforward boondoggle, involving massive new pipe laying during a sewer dig.
As for future investors, the downturn may prove a boon. Times, Sunday Times
Where is Mappo now?" asked a small baboon, which is another kind of monkey. Nero, the Circus Lion His Many Adventures
The statue of the goddess in the sanctum was small and was heavily garlanded with bells and gold borders - offerings made to the goddess for boons granted.
Guide dogs are a great boon to the partially sighted.
The fractious Monday followed a rough-and-tumble weekend, as the two sparred over an Obama leaflet accusing Clinton of saying the North American Free Trade Agreement was a boon to the economy. CNN Transcript Feb 25, 2008
Much of the supposed behaviour of Lucy and her companions is clearly modelled on baboons - yet baboons are monkeys and not apes at all.
Todd Walker singled Boone to third before Larkin smacked the ball to right field off Mike DeJean National League Major League Baseball - Cincinnati vs. Milwaukee
Knowing these people helps to understand why alcohol is such a boon to the lost and the lonely.
A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
The bank may reboot its bond-buying program, a boon for debt-strapped Eurozone countries squeezed by prohibitively high funding costs.
Yes, the original's "oonga-boonga" depiction of the island natives is flat-out racist -- but their presence is essential to the story. Capturing Kong
The Catch: In an effort to obliterate the term "boondocks," the government finally provides rural areas with access to faster Internet (and possibly America Online). Esquire.com Article Feed
Now hopelessly swamped in scandal and corruption, high taxes, firearms boondoggle, sponsorship scandal, etc, they are again using bribery as their last resort.
The third houses a seismometer - a boon for the state's earthquake researchers, as it is the first to be positioned west of the San Andreas Fault.
The road improvement scheme was a gigantic boondoggle.
Aren't these live horseracing broadcasts boondoggles?
The park is the refuge for threatened animals such as gelada baboon, Simen fox and Walia ibex, a goat species endemic to Simen Mountains. Simen National Park, Ethiopia
Such technological ‘advances’ typically do nothing to help farmers, while providing a boon to the manufacturers and marketers of the technologies.
•Kathy Eaton of Booneville, Miss., recalls a cast-iron-skillet-style potato dish called "slumgullion," or so she thinks, after watching an old episode of Gunsmoke, which she learned from her father, "who would be 103 this year. Father's Day contest brims with memories, recipes
There are boons, too, but they are going to take a long time to realize.
At first glance, the new chancellor's prebudget report appeared to be a boon for well-heeled middle-class families. Times, Sunday Times
When they became tired of the rat race of city life, they relocated to the "boondocks" to raise their children. News Review - Top Stories
This story about a troop of baboons showed that if you remove all the aggressive, dominant males, everybody remaining has a more peaceful life. Trying to apply that to humans would be a laugh though.
The new emphasis on mother’s hipness is a boon for trendy clothing manufacturers and plastic surgeons, one of whom describes a tummy-tuck, liposuction and breast lift as the “post-baby tuneup.” More on Moms | PopPolitics.com
That kind of bare-knuckled competition is proving to be a boon to travelers on the World Wide Web.
That's the time-off we manage to squeeze in during the business boondoggles to the Caribbean, or the hours not spent checking in via e-mail or cell phone.
The new software will prove a boon to home computer users.
America's abundance of natural gas is often described as a boon to national security and a "bridge" to a clean, low-carbon energy economy. The Road to a Clean Energy Future?
And the fact that women anywhere are willing to dignify such baboonery with a response infuriates me. What's That Got To Do With the Price of an Intact Hymen in China?
What a boon it would be for week-ends, when one starts off with a Spartan resolution to take only one extra gown, and ends up with slipping two party dresses and the 'fixings' into one's trunk. The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar
Sounds like a pretty good deal, but it's way out in the boonies - even boonier than here.
As you may guess I am no fan of corporate-welfare boondoggles, but I hope that the provision to extend Daylight Savings Time survives to become law.
Greengrocers lined the sidewalks with the last of the jabalieh tomatoes, big meaty pink and green fruits whose rippling flesh puckered into circles like little baboon butts mooning you all in a row. Day of Honey
Although I may still be a teenager I refuse to care what others think, especially the others that are also trapped here out in the boonies.
Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood.
I fear a dirty little wrongful dismissal suit brought against the boondogglous Council for Canadian Unity (Franks passim, ad absurdam) may be yet another sign of a severe downturn in the patriotism business.
But if China's growth goes as expected, there is no doubt it will be a boon to financial intermediaries who stand to see billions of dollars in yearly revenues over the next two decades -- making it all the more critical for Wall Street banks to become true players in the market. Wall Street's Latest Gold Rush? The Booming China Market
To be regarded by the dominant society of Australia 1965 as being a "boong", "coon" or "Abo" was a passport to discrimination, prejudice and poverty, and many light-skinned Aboriginal people opted to assume a non-Aboriginal identity Indian, afghan, Maori, etc to escape the extreme difficulty of life as an Aboriginal person. Archive 2005-04-01
Other Sahelian mammal species include an isolated and presumably highly inbred population of around 70 olive baboons Papio anubis, in the Tamgak massif, and an estimated 500 Patas monkeys Erythrocebus patas in the central massifs and plateaux. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
Will the blackout prove to be a boon or a boondoggle for business owners?
There has been a slight downside to the home-theater boon for retailers.
To accurately assess and stabilize a life-threatening, intra-abdominal injury without requiring transport to a secure area would be a boon.
In 2003 I was shortlisted for a reference to the bright red bottom of a baboon. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from those already mentioned there are zebras, camels, baboons, lemurs, sea lions, humboldt penguins, tapirs and meerkats.
You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
A free-ranging vervet monkey, baboon, or macaque recognizes other members of his group as individuals.
The baboons became infected with the virus and four of the baboons developed lymphadenopathy and three of the animals exhibited CD4 T-cell loss within nineteen to twenty-four months after inoculation. 'The AIDS Heresy': Another Exchange
We could sit on the veranda and be joined by monkeys and baboons while watching the animal activity in the lagoon. Times, Sunday Times
Private healthcare is a huge boondoggle for insurance companies and related industries who have enormous influence over both political parties.
On the one hand, ballooning Credit and a glut of liquidity creation were a boon inspiring astonishing asset and earnings growth.
Cases abound in natural history studies of ants, chimps, baboons, etc., who, in extremis, give their existence for continuity of their kin.
Back in 1989, as he contemplated a Test debut bowling to Marsh, Taylor, Boon, Border, Jones and S Waugh on an Oval shirtfront, Alan Igglesden received a timely self-esteem boost when the chairman of selectors Ted Dexter told the world Igglesden was the 14th-choice seamer. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
Baboons are highly intelligent animals and learn to satisfy their biological needs in many often diverse ways.
Aberdeen stood up ‘I have one request, a boon, to ask of you.’
The walls are pleasingly solid, and the doors hefty wood, with two between the bedroom and the corridor, a boon for light sleepers.
To keep Earth inhabitants away from the rest of the universe community, our planet was stuck way out in the boondocks at the rim of a second-rate galaxy.
In fact, Huxley argued, a human differs much less from an ape, such as a chimpanzee or gorilla, than an ape does from a baboon.
The other great boon, and in my book the main reason to consider a Scottish holiday above an unpatriotic flight to the humid south, is the quality of the light.
I'm counting on the cut beans and STILL standing corn to draw out a booner for late bow season here in MI!!!! Bestul: Winding Down the Rut
By contrast, many Old World monkeys, such as baboons and macaques, live longer, start to reproduce later, and have more time between babies.
This is what happened to Benjamin, my bozo of a baboon, who during his brief ascendancy became a jerk.
The lag in the climate response is both a boon and a problem for policy-makers.
He hoped that he hadn't done anything too stupid, though in this desert boondocks, what sort of trouble could he have gotten into?
There are baboons in the greener regions of the south. The Sun
These machines have proved a real boon to disabled people.
The path is strewn with hardships but also some boons.
As a mulch, bark is a boon, but its colour can make for a drab garden in winter.
The use of biomass electrical generation is hardly the environmental boon it's made out to be.
The baboon would keep the goats together as they grazed during the day, giving alarm calls if it spotted cheetahs or leopards. Times, Sunday Times
The New York Times reports that voicemail, once a communicatory boon, is being abandoned by many young professionals in favor of email and text messaging. Fast Company
But no talk of mismanagement - no talk of the boondoggling earlier this year that wiped out the bulk of the budget buffer in underwriting petrol prices.
Though it is the freshest in my mind as I can't think of where I saw it before that. .but I KNOW I saw it before I ever saw the boondock saints. Must Watch: First Punisher: War Zone Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net
The 48 mammal species include Chacma baboon Papio cynocephalus ursinus, 5 species of carnivora including the blackbacked jackal Canis mesomelas, ardwolf Proteles cristatus and serval Felis serval, 11 species of artiodactyla and 16 species of rodentia, 11 of which last are endemic to South Africa. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
Another boon is for the President of the United States to echo and reinforce Islamofascist propaganda themes, as Mr. Obama did in his first interview with an Arab language television network. Stromata Blog:
He has long been deafened by amplified hymns in his temple, leaving no scope for boons and prayers.
This boondoggle is too power grabbing and too expensive to provide coverage for a small percentage of the public. Obama challenges reform detractors to explain themselves
Parks are a great boon to people in big cities.
In response to the outcry, as well as to the fact that colorization did not end up being the boon colorizers thought it would be, the practice thankfully disappeared after only a couple of years.
I try not to call anyone's religion loony mysticism, even if they believe that a great lavender baboon ass flies about the sky and poops out blessings.
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This Forrest is home to baboons and vervet monkeys.
A new Green Party, therefore, could potentially split the liberal vote and prove a boon to the Republicans.
` ` Friend Ranald, '' answered Dalgetty, ` ` I have read of these boons in silly story-books, whereby simple knights were drawn into engagements to their great prejudice; Therefore, Ranald, the more prudent knights of this day never promise anything until they know that they may keep their word anent the premises, without any displeasure or incommodement to themselves. A Legend of Montrose
Call it a boondocks mentality - that persists despite our international cachet.
The novel's republication is a valuable contribution to literary history, but not a great boon to the general reader. The Times Literary Supplement
According to the poet, Lord Ganesha, the Onkar-shaped omnipresent god, is the bestower of all kinds of boons.
But to interview, over five years, 425 people, some of them scarcely or not at all relevant to the ostensible topic, smells of academic boondoggle to me.
I'm sure it would be a boon to small clubs like ours who are struggling to make ends meet.
It will be a great boon to the user and their partners. The Sun
A lesson in marmalade making will come as a boon … Making Marmalade « dudegalea
Among the rice specials are pulavs and biryanis, which go down well with any of the four raitas offered - tomato, alu, onion and boondi.
Maybe Boone noticed crystals of potassium nitrate there, because the deep, loose floor was soon being mined for niter to make gunpowder.
Boiled phak boong (a morning glory-like vine), pork and the sweet chilli paste called nam phrik phao are put on the plate with it. Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
C (h) ristine Oct 1 so excited! you’re in Seoul trying out the street food.:) if you’re still there try boong-uh-bbang too (little cakes in the shape of fish, stuffed with red bean paste) and other goodies all around. A bite of Seoul street food: Hotteok | Baking Bites
To know and to be aware of many things is like a man too fat for his house and this obese pig of a man is forced onto the streets where he can't tolerate the heat and cold because of his flab; and then I come along and suck through his baboonish skin before he knocks off. Corpus of a Siam Mosquito
The trail isn't supposed to be a wildlife safari, but we sight many kudu, oryx, baboons and mountain zebra, and a huge Kori Bustard taking to the air.
De Waal: Solly Zuckerman was an anatomist who, tragically, established a group of hamadryas baboons at the London Zoo in the wrong way and then assumed their murderous behavior was the same in nature. Eric Michael Johnson: Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature
On Thursday, Florida Rep. John L. Mica R said that he sought to broker a deal that would have allowed private investors into the Florida rail proposal as a hedge against overruns but that Scott could not be persuaded to support what he called a "boondoggle. Dollars from Florida's high-speed rail project up for grabs
There's a fearful deal o 'oaths spilt in a grave while it's i' th 'makin', I can tell yo '; and th' Almeety's name is spoken more daan i 'th' hoile than it is up aboon, for all th 'parson reads it so mich aat of his book. Lancashire Idylls (1898)
Twilight has proved a boon for British actors in Hollywood. Times, Sunday Times
Take a letter to Kublai Khan, " I said to Mon Cul, pretending that the baboon was my secretary. Another Roadside Attraction
If correct, this diphyletic take on mangabey affinities would mean that geladas, baboons, drills and mandrills do not form a clade of ‘dog-faced cercopithecids’ as conventionally thought. Archive 2006-06-01
There is no doubt that the internet has been a huge boon for Bridge. Times, Sunday Times
I think I never met a book more "racily" written -- in a special sense of the word -- than _The Progress of Prudence_ (MILLS AND BOON). Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 1, 1914
It's up to Boone to find the fiend while avoiding his zombie henchmen and the ever-changing properties of the evil poison possessing him.
The pain of the early hour is alleviated by a member of staff bearing a tray of tea - who will wait until you take the tray, in case the roaming baboons get their hands on your home-baked cookies.
What is a problem for the navies is a boon for local fishermen. T r u t h o u t
But apart from bluffs, tricks, and mayhem, the coming year may be a boon for babies.
The evolution of sophisticated chargeback programs has been a boon to facility and real estate executives.
One baboon-like monkey who is seriously endangered but still hunted illegally is the drill.
It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.
We let her have her prom with her girlfriend and her tuxedo and we went to party it up in the "boondocks" not because we wanted her rights violated, but so we could salvage what has turned into a total fiasco. The Bilerico Project
Like the baboons, the ibex had somehow learned to defy the odds.
A baboon and a monkey are sitting patiently on a pallet awaiting their lift back to the limelight.
As it has been said, the Baboon is certainly someone to talk about honor and harakiri; he should have followed his own advice long ago. Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
They can also help one another to defeat an attack by rival male baboons that are attempting to take over their shared females.
Grand amours and boon companionship are conspicuously absent from his narrative.
This proved to be so commercially successful that it became a reciprocal arrangement, with Mills and Boon importing Harlequin titles.
The spiderlings of the horned baboon spider only commence moving about 50 days after hatching.
Numerous primates, including chimps, baboons, black lemurs and capuchins, dip into the jungle pharmacy to combat parasites.
Skepsey, journeying one late afternoon up a Kentish line, had, in both senses of the word, encountered a long-limbed navvy; an intoxicated, he was compelled by his manly modesty to desire to think; whose loathly talk, forced upon the hearing of a decent old woman opposite him, passed baboonish behaviour; so much so, that Skepsey civilly intervened; subsequently inviting him to leave the carriage and receive a lesson at the station they were nearing. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
Another boondoggle for the rich to jet somewhere exotic to gush over their concern for the poor.
Walker, a Republican, vowed during the campaign to stop the train which he called a boondoggle and waste of taxpayer money. SFGate: Top News Stories
A loss of genetic variation could also have resulted from the shift in climate as Earth entered the so-called interglacial period, a boon for many animals, but not for the giant tuskers, the study said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Sometimes it's as interesting to study primate researchers as it is to study the apes, baboons, and monkeys.

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