The way she Bossed Felix around, and sized up the other folks, calm as a Chinaman, was a caution.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
I never did allow myself to be Bossed by police, and I always been too much for 'em.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
But it was astonishing the amount of work he did, the amount of reading he got through, the amount of politics he Bossed, and the cigars he smoked, between the first of June, and the middle of August The party-leaders had come to the conclusion that Peter did not intend to take a hand in this campaign, but, after his return from Washington, they decided otherwise.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford