buskin

• I remembered Horace's 'Praecipe lugubres cantus, Melpomene,' and Cowley's 'I called the buskin'd muse Melpomene and told her what sad story I would write,' and suggested Melpomene, or Penthos: Melpomene was adopted.—The first move about the Deal Time Ball was in a letter from Commander Baldock to the Admiralty, suggesting that a Time Ball, dropped by galvanic current from Greenwich, should be attached to one of the South Foreland Lighthouses. —  Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
• Mr. Ficket, the blacksmith, begged it to take home for its skin, as he said for buskin-strings and flail-strings. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
• Mr. Douglass possesses great dramatic powers; and had he taken up the sock and buskin, instead of becoming a lecturer, he would have made as fine a Coriolanus as ever trod the stage. —  Three Years in Europe
• "May it not seeme enough for a courtier to know how to weare a feather and set his cappe aflaunt; his chain en echarpe_; a straight buskin, al Inglese_; a loose à la Turquesque_; the cape alla Spaniola_; the breech à la Françoise_, and, by twentie maner of new-fashioned garments, to disguise his body and his face with as many countenances, whereof it seems there be many that make a very arte and studie, who can shewe himselfe most fine, I will not say most foolish or ridiculous." —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• I signed my agreement the same evening for two months; and being presented in due form to my brethren of the buskin, joined the supper-table, where there was more of abundance than of delicacies. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer

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