Verb (used with object) : The wind buffeted the house. From Dictionary.com.
It was the reward of courageous 'buffeting' and enslaving of the body; he was an austere ascetic. From Wordnik.com. [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference
The buffeting of the running chop sea began to tire him. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Guides would naturally come in for some rough buffeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
The livid veins were welted to the skin from their buffeting. From Wordnik.com. [Deadheading] Reference
The salty spray increased to a gentle rain, buffeting her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea] Reference
Mr. Carson, too, suffered from his buffeting with the flames, but. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha at Ivy Hall] Reference
They made an intensely quiet islet amidst the buffeting human tide. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
But our ship is sore distressed from the buffeting of the storms, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Landing of the Pilgrims] Reference
It was now night, and the boys were tired out from buffeting the storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats] Reference
The first story could not withstand the terrible buffeting of the waves. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
He looked as if he were thoroughly enjoying the buffeting he was getting. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Not only is he lost, but the elements themselves are continually buffeting him. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
After two years of painful search and much buffeting by demons he finds Barlaam. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
But they were delicate, and could not endure the continued buffeting of the waves. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
And, sure enough, there was the youth still unharmed, and still buffeting the waters. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
A fiercer buffeting of wind puffed from the west, fiercely toothed with shot of snow. From Wordnik.com. [Bruvver Jim's Baby] Reference
There it sat, for two hours, before taking off into a buffeting, roller-coastering gale. From Wordnik.com. [Tales From The Sardine Run] Reference
Thorvald paused in the buffeting of wind and spray, watching the fury of the tossing sea. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
On one occasion he anchored in a gale and lay buffeting enormous seas for eight long days. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
It is obviously to the interest of this neighbor to outrun the beetle and escape a buffeting. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
"I have walked from Newnham, and 'tis a trying journey with the wind buffeting one so rudely.". From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Mercosur is a potential bulwark against just the sort of turmoil that has been buffeting Brazil. From Wordnik.com. [Collateral Damage] Reference
Sadly and silently the boys trudged onward, buffeting the wind and stifling their growing hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
Small economies are famously susceptible to economic buffeting, and economists see a squall ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Icemen Cometh] Reference
The noble steamer Baltic plowed her way through the buffeting bosoms of the blue Atlantic oceanward. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
Geordie to the door, one hand gripping his throat, the other buffeting the helpless wretch in the face. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
The earnings also underscored the trends buffeting consumer electronics retailers heading into Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [Retailers Turn to Gadgets] Reference
Radar imagery from Morehead, NC does show Earl's outer bands buffeting Outer Banks with periodic heavy rains. From Wordnik.com. [Weakening Earl to remain offshore North Carolina] Reference
She struggled, and turning round aided his efforts by buffeting the pirate in the face with her hands and nails. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
"I must have no earthly moorings; far, far out on life's tumultuous sea, I see myself buffeting the waves alone.". From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
Between earth and heaven, it is said, the soul on its upward journey must pass the buffeting of many evil spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
We had a probe out and the main buffeting was taken by the duralloy tube with its tiny converter at its bulbous tip. From Wordnik.com. [A Question of Courage] Reference
After buffeting against it for two days, the necessity for making a port became apparent, our supply of coal beginning to get low. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
As in the previous case, when a prisoner is caught, he and his captors hurry to the den to avoid the buffeting of the other players. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
These thin, hard bodies, buffeting her about, formed round her a rampart from which the blades of steel were answered by blades of flame. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
We even felt an exultant joy in the fierce buffeting of the winter blizzards which annually descended upon us from the plateaus of Dakota. From Wordnik.com. [Chums of the Camp Fire] Reference
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