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Example sentences for "buffets"

Lexicographically close words:
buffers; buffet; buffeted; buffeting; buffetings; buffetted; buffing; buffler; buffo; buffoon
  1. I will not reveal your disguise, but by my troth I vow I will never try buffets with you again, and, if I keep my wits, sword of yours shall never come near my headpiece.

  2. Then, drawing their swords, they ran like fierce lions together, giving each other such buffets on the helms that both reeled backwards, while pieces were hewed out from their armor and shields and fell into the field.

  3. He holds our hands while the world buffets us; he puts bear-skins upon us, and then sets the dogs at us.

  4. I have been getting some of the buffets of late; but have amply earned them--you need not pity me.

  5. Staunchly to withstand her buffets and to enjoy with equanimity her favours was the code of the virtuous of old.

  6. The buffets of fortune cannot touch it--its house is builded on a rock.

  7. He taught that the only Peace for man lies in snapping the fingers at Fortune, taking her buffets and her favours with equal contempt, and generally teaching her to know her place.

  8. The dining-room itself was a handsome apartment; its buffets glittered with Venetian glass and Dresden porcelain, and here and there gilt pedestals supported globes of gold and silver fish.

  9. Then when Sir Palamydes saw Sir Tristram standing above him in that wise, he dreaded his buffets so that he said: "Sir Knight, I yield me to thee to do thy commands, if so be thou wilt spare my life.

  10. There is always a crowd at the Nuremberg station, though they have multiplied little buffets outside the regular salles d'attente with coffee, beer, sausages, etc.

  11. Do you remember how I always loved getting out at all the buffets at no matter what time of night, when we used to go down to Italy every year?

  12. There were great buffets and tables covered with splendid gold and silver plates, flagons, vases, etc.

  13. She wondered greatly at some of the things I knew; and yet for all that I felt at times as though I were but a child beside her in every other thing save the mere buffets of life.

  14. The keys of the cupboards and buffets were, I think, lying on the table, or in my workbox, when I quitted the room.

  15. So we mean to carry on, and take Flora's "buffets and awards" "with equal thanks.

  16. Those who are not the slaves of fortune, but have made the most of both her buffets and her rewards.

  17. Everybody admires a hard fighter--the man who takes buffets standing up, and in a spirit of "Never say die" is always ready for more.

  18. But, if one buffets truth itself, he immediately has both, as believers, for opponents.

  19. But at one of the Court balls you would see a general pillage, the buffets besieged, and everything swallowed up amidst a scramble of amazing voracity!

  20. And yet for us now, accustomed to the buffets and ambitions of life in the open, that pre-natal vegetative dream seems worthless and contemptible, and hardly deserving the name of existence.

  21. The three spiritual electors, their buffets behind them, had taken their places on single elevations; the Elector of Mentz opposite their majesties, the Elector of Treves at the right, and the Elector of Cologne at the left.

  22. As one, in suffering all: That suffers nothing; A man that fortune's buffets and rewards Hast ta'en with equal thanks.

  23. And if I now sat by thee," said he with scorn, "I would bestow on my young squire a couple of buffets to prove the truth of this.

  24. But, if a block, shall not she jar the hand That buffets her?

  25. And when he felt their buffets and his wound, the which was so grievous, then he thought to do what he might while he might endure.

  26. That may I repent, said Dinadan, for this unhappy Sir Tristram brought us to this tournament, and many great buffets he caused us to have.

  27. For as the French book saith, Sir Pelleas gave such buffets there that none armour might hold him.

  28. We have free buffets for our fighting men at all of these, and at all our London stations and ports, and these are open night and day.

  29. All the woodland rings with clapping and shouts of men that cheer their favourites, and the sheltered beach eddies back their cries; the noise buffets and re-echoes from the hills.

  30. Pho, I will bandy mudballs with him at any moment," said Villafana: "I care not for the buffets of a friend.

  31. Probably the buffets had lain undisturbed for years.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.