The ponies look very well and all are reported to be very buckish. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
I was feeling rather extra buckish myself and that didn't improve matters. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Even Jehu has been buckish, kicking up his heels and gambolling awkwardly. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
'Bones' seems to be getting on well, though not yet quite so buckish as he was before his trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
The ponies are very buckish and can scarcely be held in at exercise; it seems certain that they feel the return of daylight. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
Every one wears the straight, high-crowned silk hat that went out with us years ago, and the cut of clothing of even the most buckish young fellows is behind the times. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The two principal bidders, -- and they seemed to enter into a pretty warm competition, -- were a gentleman of the neighborhood, who appeared to know the poor fellow on sale, and a dashing, buckish young man, who, it was said, was a slave-trader from South. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive] Reference
The two principal bidders, -- and they seemed to enter into a pretty warm competition, -- were a gentleman of the neighborhood, who appeared to know the poor fellow on sale, and a dashing, buckish young man, who, it was said, was a slave-trader from South Carolina, who had come to purchase slaves for that market. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Vol. I] Reference
From one of the village lanes came swaggering towards the visitors a figure of aggressive fashion, -- a very buckish young fellow, with a heavy black mustache and black eyes, who wore a jaunty round hat, blue checked trousers, a white vest, and a morning-coat of blue diagonals, buttoned across his breast; in his hand he swung a light cane. From Wordnik.com. [A Chance Acquaintance] Reference
"--" Massa, please, make me look eerie (buckish) when me go abroad. ". From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies] Reference
The two principal bidders, ” and they seemed to enter into a pretty warm competition, ” were a gentleman of the neighborhood, who appeared to know the poor fellow on sale, and a dashing, buckish young man, who, it was said, was a slave-trader from South Carolina, who had come to purchase slaves for that market. From Wordnik.com. [The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive]
The ponies are getting buckish. From Wordnik.com. [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference
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