Looking down on the ocean, the first object which presented itself to my eye, was a small one-masted shallop, which was buffeting the waves in a south-westerly direction.

Our ship climbs onward o'er the lifted waves, That gather up in ridges, mountain-high, And like a sea-god, conscious in his power, Buffets the surges.

He felt like a man who has buffeted his way to land out of a shipwreck, and who, though still anxious to get farther from his peril, cannot help turning round to gaze on the wide waters.

The wind buffeted my face and buzzed in my nostrils.

Deprived of this advantage, the only resort would be to take the open sea, and there buffet out the storms.

In the main, this harper thought the man now buffeting France a just king, and he had heard, when the crown was laid aside, Sire Henry was sufficiently jovial, and even prankish.

But the unmannerly ice has buffeted her hat off.

I know that thou art so abandoned a man, that to give thee the best reasons in the world against what thou hast once resolved upon will be but acting the madman whom once we saw trying to buffet down a hurricane with his hat.

In the main, this harper thought the man now buffeting France a just king, and he had heard, when the crown was laid aside, Sire Henry was sufficiently jovial, and even prankish.

In vain the captain shook and buffeted the men.

Standing there, buffeting her pink nails across her pink palms, Mrs. Connors followed the westward trend of that army.

The wind increased slightly with the dawn, buffeting the frail raft to which they clung desperately, and showering them with spray, while, as the light became stronger, they searched vainly for any sign of ship, or shadow of land.

and buffeted the runner on the side of the head.

So the integrity and vehemence of Dr. Chalmers's manner, the determined way in which he gives himself up to his subject, or lays about him and buffets sceptics and gainsayers, arrests attention in spite of every other circumstance, and fixes it on that, and that alone, which excites such interest and such eagerness in his own breast!

706. meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty &c adj.. fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles.

He, who could have buffeted an ordinary sea for hours, was now completely exhausted by the unwonted exertions, the deadening influence of the tempest, and the log-like weight of his burthen He would not desert the father of Adelheid, and yet each fainting and useless stroke told him to despair.

" The idea seemed fairly to buffet the little secretary in the face, but Mr. Skale's proximity was too overpowering to permit of very clear thinking.

Perhaps Fortune does not buffet any set of beings with more industry, and withal less effect, than Actors.

With a wide sweep of the clenched fist he buffeted the smuggler on the ear.

The winds, full of stifled voices, buffeted the souls for ever, whirling them away to and fro, and dashing them against one another.

" So Colonel George Talbot is out of the hands of the proud Lord Effingham, and up the Bay with his wife and friends; and is buffeting the wintry head-winds in a long voyage to the Elk River, which, in due time, he reaches in safety.

V. Like a bird of evil presage, To the lonely house on the shore Came the wind with a tale of shipwreck, And shrieked at the bolted door, And flapped its wings in the gables, And shouted the well-known names, And buffeted the windows Afeard in their shuddering frames.

In spite of his long experience in buffeting the world, the old soldier's heart was still as simple as that of a child, and the recital awakened his sympathies at once.

They saw upon the shrinking sands The warriors with restless hands And busy blades, with shields that rose To buffet the unceasing blows; They saw before the rising flood The flash of fire, the flash of blood; And watched the men with panting breath, Striving to be the slaves of death; Now darting wide, now swerving round, Now clashed together in a bound, With splitting swords that smote so fast, As hour by hour unheeded past.

The great man had forgotten the engagement, and was "buffeting his books" in a dirty shirt and amidst clouds of dust.