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  • I heard nothing at all from Torbert during the 22d, and supposing that everything was progressing favorably, I was astonished and chagrined on the morning of the 23d, at Woodstock, to receive the intelligence that he had fallen back to Front Royal and Buckton ford.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • What Buckton is not, however, is immune to the charms of Dr. Constance Snowden Kim Poirier, the leader of the aliens.

    More Indie Spirit: Revenge of the Nerds; Decoys: The Second Seduction; Song For A Raggy Boy, and Black Eyed Dog 2007

  • This time Pa was twelve miles away in a cell over in Buckton.

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • “Her face and arms were badly stung by some kind of bees yesterday when she was in the woods looking for her little dog,” he said, “and the doctor in Buckton has gone to Roanoke for a funeral.”

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • “You and I both know he broke his solemn word to the judge in Buckton.”

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • A short time later, he was watching the storekeeper carefully pour the berries into small square boxes to sell in Buckton the next day.

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • “You and I both know he broke his solemn word to the judge in Buckton.”

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • Mrs. Brown had told him folks from miles around came into Buckton on court day.

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • This time Pa was twelve miles away in a cell over in Buckton.

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

  • “She grew up on one of them big farms just the other side of Buckton,” Pa said reluctantly.

    MOONSHINER’S SON CAROLYN REEDER 1993

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