His coach being come, he causeth him to be laid in softly, and so he in one boot, and the two chirurgeons in the other, they drive away to the very next country house.—Reynolds, God’s Revenge against Murder, b. i. hist.
He [James the First] received his son into the coach, and found a slight errand to leave Buckingham behind, as he was putting his foot in the boot.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part i. p. 196.
Bounty. The tendency to accept freedom of giving in lieu of all other virtues, or at least to regard it as the chiefest of all, the same which has brought ‘charity’ to be for many identical with almsgiving, displays itself in our present use of ‘bounty,’ which, like the French ‘bonté,’ meant goodness once.
For God it woot that childer ofte been
Unlik her worthy eldris hem bifore;
Bounté cometh al of God, nought of the streen,
Of which thay ben engendrid and i-bore.
Chaucer, Clerkes Tale (Morris, p. 283).
Nourishing meats and drinks in a sick body do lose their bounty, and augmenteth malady.—Sir T. Elyot, The Governor, b. ii. c. 7.
Brat. This word is now used always in contempt, but was not so once.