slyboots was gone, scissors and all.
"Spinning-Wheel Stories"
Louisa May Alcott
He's an old slyboots, who has had some post, I fancy, in the administration of the national domain, or something of that kind, under government; in which, I think, he must have been employed in the departments suppressed under the Empire."
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac
slyboots, a Quaker, and his two Daughters.
"The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III)"
Philip Freneau