With the Restoration, however, Thespis enjoyed his own again, and sock and buskinbecame once more lawful articles of apparel.
The player who usually appeared wearing the buskin now assumed the sock, and the established comedian ventured upon a flight into the regions of tragedy.
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.
Next Æschylus the different persons placed, And with a better mask his players graced: Upon a theatre his verse expressed, And showed his hero with a buskin dressed.
The temple here meant is doubtless the Temple of Love, and the fact of the Buskin being Invisible illumes the eyes of the damosel who knows that the devotee is worshiping at the Shrine of Love.
IX - "The Invisible Buskin at the Gate" probably refers to the shoe left outside of temples and mosques in the Orient.
Thus the whole World to reverence will flock Thy Tragick Buskin and thy Comick Stock; And winged fame unto posterity Transmit but onely two, this Age, and Thee.
Her left hand held aloft the royal sceptre; the Lydian buskin [502] was the high sandal for her feet.
The door which thou with thy rigid buskin canst not unlock, the same is open to my caressing words.
Mr Buskin shook hands in a very cordial manner, and the next moment was making his way rapidly in the direction of the town.
It's Mr Buskin the actor," panted Austin breathlessly, as he began to recover himself.
He had not been inside a theatre for years, and the vivid description that Mr Buskin had given him of the show he was about to witness filled him with pleasurable anticipation.
Lubin was a cleaner gentleman than any painted Buskin on the stage.
Mr Buskin shrugged his shoulders, and replied he was sure he hoped so.
I didn't believe in Sardanapalus for a moment, even before I had the privilege of seeing and hearing him as Mr Buskin in his dressing-room.
It gave me a lot to think about, as I told Mr Buskin himself when I went to see him for a few minutes behind the scenes.
He reproached himself for this, for poor Buskin rolled his eyes and twisted his mouth and pulled such lugubrious faces that Austin felt how pathetic it all was, and how hard the man was trying to work upon the feelings of the audience.
Lubin shall come and be an acolyte, and we'll get Mr Buskin to be stage-manager, and you shall be the pew-opener.
But it was clear enough that Mr Buskin was a great personage in his way, and extremely modest into the bargain.
Though, of course, his name is no more Buskin than yours or mine.
But that is a distinction reserved for actors who stand at the tip-top of their profession, and I'm afraid that poor Buskin has but little chance of ever realising his aspiration.
A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general.
Again Karl's hand went to the hilt of Ironbiter, and his frown deepened as Worad of Metz rushed into the room, covered from helmet to buskin with travel-grime.
Fastrada did not raise her eyes, but her jewelled buskin tapped softly on the dais.
She stopped short and stamped her jewelled buskin deep into the snow, and her eyes blazed with angry light.
In sock or buskin there was an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer.
Then I desire, sir, you'll turn Dick Buskin again out of your memory.
Poor Dick Buskin wants money more than myself, yet this is a measure I'm sure he'd scorn.
Then Dick Buskin might find some other amusement than shooting off his guns here.
Meanwhile the Governor called upon the officers to apply the buskin of torture to the young man.
Hardly had he felt the pressure of the buskin before he cried: "I confess everything!
Is the buskinof old to be seen in truth on your stage, then, Which even I came to fetch, out of mid-Tartarus' gloom?
Tis to see Tiresias I come, to ask of the prophet Where I the buskin of old, that now has vanished, may find?
Mask andbuskin are often requisite in order to transport what is great in human experience out of its embosoming littleness.
No idle chains endure: Yet, Muse, to walk aright, Lace tight Thy buskin proud and sure.
In his "Lady Archibald Campbell" he cared more for black and grey gradations and the yellow note of the buskin than for the fair sitter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buskin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: costume; disguise; masquerade; motley; outfit; rig; sock; tragedy
