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Example sentences for "buskins"

Lexicographically close words:
busk; busked; buskin; buskined; busking; buskit; busman; buss; bussed; busses
  1. His buskins are yellow, and he is standing on his right foot in a niche.

  2. His cuirass is blue, his sword-belt partly blue and partly yellow, his sleeves of changing blue and red, and his buskins yellow.

  3. Her buskins are blue, and she is standing on a rock in the middle of the sea, surrounded by a very beautiful sky.

  4. This young man, who stands in a niche of mixed green and grey marble, with blue buskins embroidered with gold, is looking with indescribable fierceness at Hannibal, who faces him on the opposite page of the book.

  5. If used at all in tragedy, buskins and pads probably were used to make the heroic characters of the drama literally greater than the other characters.

  6. In sundry colours they both men and women goe, In buskins all, that money haue on buskins to bestoe.

  7. They goe all in buskins of white, yellow, blew, or some other coloured leather, embrodered with pearle.

  8. They haue a cunning in Persia to make in buskins of Spanish leather flowers of many kindes, in most liuely colours, and these the Courtiers do weare there: to learne which arte were no harme.

  9. His buskins (which he weareth in stead of hose, with linnen folles vnder them in stead of boot hose) are made of a Persian leather called Saphian, embrodered with pearle.

  10. In the sommer time, commonly they weare nothing but their shirts on their backes, and buskins on their legges.

  11. Their feet were incased in buskins that seemed to be made of leather.

  12. Still others were garbed only in short, wide trousers and shirts of a soft leather, with legs bare from the knee down, and with leather buskins on their feet.

  13. Here sat Eumaeus, and his cares applied To form strong buskins of well-season'd hide.

  14. The skirt was caught up on the hip with diamond clasps, and showed buskins of lions' muzzles made to correspond with the rest.

  15. An ox-hide to make buskins of yearly, because of the brambles," echoed the Kitchener.

  16. To complete his dress, we must notice his loose buskins of deer's hide, formed so as to draw up on the leg as high as the knee, or at pleasure to be thrust down lower than the calves.

  17. He wore a green embroidered frock, with buff leggins of dressed deerskin richly worked by some Indian maid, and on his feet were buskins of dressed doeskin.

  18. On his feet he wore buskins embroidered with pearls, the toes being sharp and turned up.

  19. Their legs were bare, except that they had half buskins bound about their insteps with silk ribbon.

  20. The huntress is in her dress of green,-- 85 And forth they go; she with her bow, Her buskins and her quiver!

  21. Put on your dress of green, 5 Your buskins and your quiver: Lord Julian is a hasty man, Long waiting brook'd he never.

  22. Then rose and donn'd her dress of green, Her buskins and her quiver.

  23. We had a paire of buskins of them full of fine wool like beuer.

  24. I felt in my buskins too, for these were not upon my feet, as I no longer needed them, but lying idle in a corner.

  25. Slowly and silently I raised myself into a half-upright position, so that I could reach the buskins with a single effort, and in this attitude I again listened for a repetition of the sound.

  26. The thongs of my buskins came into my mind--the very thing!

  27. The place appeared crowded with them, and I could scarce put down the buskins without touching one.

  28. Placing the buskins in readiness, I crouched near the crevice where the rat should enter.

  29. I even put on my old buskins in hopes of being able to kick it out; but, after thumping at it for a considerable time, I saw it would not do.

  30. Partly to save the buskins from total destruction, and partly to hinder myself from being disturbed again, I took them out of the corner, and placing them near my head, covered them up with a fold of the broadcloth.

  31. It came from the corner where my buskins lay empty and idle.

  32. The mouse must have been busy to have made so much ruin in so short a time, for it was but a few hours before that I had had the buskins in my hands, and I had then noticed nothing wrong with them.

  33. I succeeded in planting one of the buskins upon the animal, but from the want of a firm floor underneath, I was not able to hold it, and the soft cloth yielding enabled it to get away.

  34. Furthermore, his dress was combined of the habit and bands pertaining to an ecclesiastic, and the buskins and spurs belonging to a soldier.

  35. His feet were encased in black buskins with silver buckles, and puffed silk inserted in the slashings of the leather.

  36. Woven hose to match the tunic ended in crimson buskins of soft leather.

  37. Therefore, in declaring my observations of the customs of Holland, Poland, and Italy, the buskins of the women were not forgot, and what country weed I thought best becoming gentlewomen.

  38. Urg reached within the hollow and drew out a pair of high buskins which he aided Garin to lace on.

  39. With the Ana pattering before him, the American started down a steep ramp, the soft soles of his buskins making no sound.

  40. Then AEschylus brought in the mask and pall, Put buskins on his men to make them tall, Turned boards into a platform, not too great, And taught high monologue and grand debate.

  41. You will be again a great lady at Constantinople; marry some 'pan-sebastos,' or perhaps the heir of the purple buskins himself.

  42. She had a short gilded helmet, buskins of purple, and sandals tied with crimson strings.

  43. The Augustan age produced a poet who measured the Greek lyric buskins on Latin measures; the nineteenth century has given birth to one who has fitted them on to Italian verse.

  44. By his white plume reveal'd and buskins white, It is said that Pizarro used to dress in this fashion; after Gonzalo, whom he had served under in Italy.

  45. Willingly," he exclaimed, and seizing a pair of buskins he quickly donned them.

  46. So saying I held up buskins of shark's skin which I had previously prepared, and which I now bound on to their legs.


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