He is a trifle peppery and impulsive, but quite an agreeable, genial old buffer.

Floss, burnishing her nails somewhat frantically with a dilapidated and greasy buffer, snatched the garment from her and slipped bare arms into it.

A friendly Serbo-Croatian buffer State against Germany will probably be of equal comfort in the future to Italy and Bulgaria; more especially if Italy has pushed down the Adriatic coast along the line of the former Venetian possessions.

He is a trifle peppery and impulsive, but quite an agreeable, genial old buffer.

After the experience of Luxembourg and Belgium no one now dreams of a neutralised buffer State.

Perhaps, too, a neutral Poland would form a useful buffer between Germany and Russia.