Wi 'gowans and buttercups buskin' the thorny wands. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Also ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference
Those of the sock and buskin, artists, court gazetteers. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
The old tragic buskin, and the comic sock, the military sandal. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
Such an undertaking by no means befits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
Show it when yer buskin 'or when innkeeper asks fer it, till ye get yer permit. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
The shoe worn on the ancient stage by comedians as the buskin was by tragedians. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
After that, if you be caught street-buskin ', you get fined, maybe thrown in gaol. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
Ya know, I kinda like the Roman soldier buskin look, with the laces strapped around my legs. From Wordnik.com. [Lace Lament] Reference
Tyrian maidens are wont ever to wear the quiver, to tie the purple buskin high above their ankle. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
No buskin elevation, no tragedy pomp, could mislead her; and yet poetry was poetry indeed, when she read it. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But there were at times others among the spectators of the humble attempts or the brethren of the sock and buskin: the then. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
Many are the intimacies of the College, the society, the buskin, and the oar which they bring up, from classmates and college friends. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
The countryman sold off his corn at a good rate, and with the money filled an old kind of a demi-buskin which was fastened to his girdle. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
He knows perfectly well that there is a great deal of the mask and buskin on the stage of life, and that each man in his time plays many parts. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
Though in buskin or slipper your song may be shod. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems] Reference
And the heroes of the buskin over thirty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyageur and Other Poems] Reference
Also ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer, 5. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
Roman buskin ', but he too is but the shadow of an empty name. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
It is like an actor with one foot raised on a high buskin, and the other in a slipper. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02] Reference
By the use of the lofty buskin, they impiously strive to add a cubit to their stature. c. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
Player, life 's a poor, 125. ought to accept his throws, 697. shuffles off the buskin, 637. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
His feet were protected with a sort of buskin; at his side hung a crude-looking metal spear. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference
He stooped as if to secure the erring buskin, but suddenly lifted her like a child to his shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [In the Carquinez Woods] Reference
Mr. Ficket, the blacksmith, begged it to take home for its skin, as he said for buskin-strings and flail-strings. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
He'd already seen much of the country, traveling with his guitar and buskin 'music on sidewalks when he ended up in Columbus, in. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to After reaching high, gas prices back down] Reference
He'd already seen much of the country, traveling with his guitar and buskin 'music on sidewalks when he ended up in Columbus, in 1927. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to After reaching high, gas prices back down] Reference
"The tales I told were of a kind to be spared a Greek, even one who may not cover his instep with the embroidered buskin of an Emperor.". From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
It is a terrible decree, that all must act who would prevail; and the more extended the audience, the greater need for the mask and buskin. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
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