Behind these men is a buskined hero, beset by a Marshalsea. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
She could have had a Court of Virgins, or gone like Artemis, buskined through the thickets, with a hundred high-girdled nymphs behind her, all for her sake locked in chastity. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Zeus break forth in dancing, beating with buskined foot on heaven's bright floor; for now hath she worked her heart's desire in utterly confounding the chiefest of Hellas 'sons. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
He regarded the man again; it was very strange, as if a circular stage, the buskined world's tragic-comic wheel of fortune, had turned, and a person whom he had seen in one character had reappeared in another. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Hear Garrick's buskined tread and Walpole's wit once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Tent on the Beach and Others Part 4, from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems] Reference
On board ship, our buskined heroes are of more importance than Booth, Forrest, or. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an African Cruiser] Reference
Highland kelt, the flowing plaid, the buskined leg, provokes my antagonist to laugh!. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
From firm little chin to dainty buskined feet she was swathed in the soft robes of dull, almost coppery hue. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
I think I see her with javelin raised and buskined foot, a second Diana, roaming the hills of Westmoreland in quest of the lakers. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Milton, who enjoyed the theatre -- both "Jonson's learned sock" and what "ennobled hath the buskined stage" -- was led, through his friendship with the musician. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
Her buskined ankles, the bent bow and quiver at her back, and the brilliant crescent that sparkled on her hunting-cap, showed that she had chosen to represent the goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Glauber-Spa] Reference
Somewhere near that period, the two following pieces, written for "buskined boys," were performed, and being undoubtedly esteemed popular, both printed, but without dates. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1] Reference
It is easy at night to people the forest with weird beings – buskined nymphs, nixes, dwarfs, demons, dryads, fawns, witches, ghosts, and even Pan and all his merry rout. From Wordnik.com. [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference
Summoning all my dexterity into a single bound, I cleared the chasm; and with one buskined foot (for my hunting costume was strictly Highland) clung firmly to the ledge, while I secured my balance with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3] Reference
But there came a day to him when he missed the deer, and caught a glimpse instead of the divine huntress, Diana, high-buskined, short-kirtled, speeding with her hounds through the lonely woodland, and his thoughts ran no more on venison for that day. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference
Never did two valiant train-band captains, or two buskined theatric heroes, in the renowned tragedies of Pizarro, Tom Thumb, or any other heroical and fighting tragedy, marshal their gallows-looking, duck-legged, heavy-heeled myrmidons with more glory and self-admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
It is no doubt true, that a highly-buskined tragedy, in which all the personages maintain the funereal pomp usually required from the victims of Melpomene, is apt to be intolerably tiresome, after all the pains which a skilful and elegant poet can bestow upon finishing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference
My music is a Cannon, a pitched field my stage, Furies the actors, blood and vengeance the scene, death the story, a sword imbrued with blood, the pen that writes, and the poet a terrible buskined < 17 > tragical fellow, with a wreath about his head of burning match instead of bays. From Wordnik.com. [The Noble Spanish Soldier] Reference
So will ye cheat it, -- or ye will cheat it also by affecting the false virtues which it admires itself, -- rouge your sentiments highly, and let them strut with a buskined air; thirdly, my good young men, ye will cheat it by profuse flattery, and by calling it in especial "the mirror of chivalry.". From Wordnik.com. [Tomlinsoniana] Reference
Corinne in this part, if it were possible, surpassed herself; her step was so light, as she tripped two or three times round the same circle, that her buskined feet seemed to fly over the floor with the velocity of lightning; and when she lifted up one of her hands, shaking the tambourine, while with the other she motioned the. From Wordnik.com. [Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy] Reference
Or, more select, some buskined heroes burn. From Wordnik.com. [The Age Reviewed] Reference
They were bare-breasted, kirtled and buskined. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
Ennobled hath the buskined stage. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
And love triumpheth o'er his buskined poet. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Her legs were buskined, and the left before. From Wordnik.com. [Palamon and Arcite] Reference
The Poet's heart attends your buskined feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
With which his genius shook the buskined stage. From Wordnik.com. [INSCRIPTIONS FOR A SEAT IN THE GROVES OF COLEORTON.] Reference
In buskined measures move. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
(3) What is meant by "sceptred pall"? by "buskined stage"?. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
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