From the sorrow of a Hottentot to that of a woman in large buckram sleeves, with several bracelets on each arm, an architectural bonnet, and delicate ribbon-stringswhat a long series of gradations!

Wellington, the dumb ghost, with an ashy-gray soul in a buckram body, a wooden smile on his freezing faceand, by the side of that, think of the figure of Napoleon, every inch a god!

His face is like a lawyer's buckram rag, that has always business in it, and as he trots about his head travels as fast as his feet.

You from a paltry pen-and-inkhorn clerk, Bearing a buckram-satchel at your belt, Unto a justice' place I did prefer; Where you unjustly have my tenants rack'd, Wasted my treasure, and increas'd your store.

Yet inspect in the shop-windows (where the facts of female costume are obtruded too pertinaciously for the public to remain in ignorance) the light and flexible corsets of these days, and then contemplate at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth the stout buckram stays that once incased the stouter heart of Alice Bradford.

Discarding the stiff buckram strut of martial tradition, he educated them to move with the loafing insouciance of the Indian, or the graceful ease of the panther.

Though you be never so much delayed you must not call his master knave, that makes him go beyond himself, and write a challenge in court hand, for it may be his own another day These are some certain of his liberal faculties; but in the term time his clog is a buckram bag.

I was proud of its buckram undersleeves, though they scratched my arms, and admired its wings, which extended over the protecting buckram.