"Is that Buffer you quoted a good authority?" "First-rate," Mac snapped out defiantly.

Your old Buffer's got a long head, Mac.

Here's to Buffer!"

Thank you for dancing with an old buffer.

Spos'en I take you then, you dear old buffer," she added, addressing the Hon.

"I may be an old buffer," said the Hon.

Doubtless the desire to found a buffer State inspired Richelieu, just as it did the representatives of Prussia, Russia, France, Austria and England when they drew up the treaty guaranteeing Belgium's neutrality in perpetuity, at the Conference of London, 1839.

Consequently they agreed to make a kingdom which might act as a buffer between France and the rest of Europe; and to this end they decreed that Belgium and Holland should be one.

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

In wars that were neither of her making nor her choosing she has borne the hardest blowsa poor little buffer state thrust in between great and truculent neighbors.

The ends of the rectangular frame are formed of plates 3/4 thick, and at the front end there is a buffer beam of oak 4-1/2 inches thick and 15 inches deep.

"I don't think the gain of having you for a wind buffer would make up for losing you as a crutch," he said, as he hobbled slowly along in his stockinged feet.

This will consist of hammer and pincers, drawing-knife and buffer.

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

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.

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

" She picked up a buffer from the litter of ivory and silver on the dresser and began to polish her already glittering nails, turning her head this way and that, preening her neck, biting her scarlet lips to deepen their crimson, opening her eyes wide and half closing them languorously.

The cranking of the drawbar allows for the deflection of the buffer springs.

Buzzby, on being brought thus unexpectedly within reach of the ball, braced up his energies for a kick; but seeing O'Riley coming down towards him like a runaway locomotive, he pulled up, saying quietly to himself, "Ye may take it all yer own way, lad; I'm too old a bird to go for to make my carcass a buffer for a madcap like you to run agin.

He said this with elaborate carelessness; in fact, he had begged her to come that she might once more take her familiar and highly successful part of buffer between him and his father's displeasure.

Sir Buffer Stayte, K.C.B., O.B.E., speaking for his own Government department, said that, although in a manner of speaking the War was over, it was also not over.

Sir Buffer Stayte said that, although in ordinary times such might be the case, it was not so in war-time or while the Defence of the Realm Act was in force.

Not even when he asked her one nightwhile she worked with buffer and orange-wood stickif she believed in love at first sight did she suspect the underlying dynamics, the true inebriating factor of this reform.

"I'm Count De Buffer, travelling incog.

In fact, he did get to the fence, and was in the act of clambering over, when he was seized in the iron grip of Count De Buffer, who was angered at the narrow escape of the youth making off with the funds.

But it was the triumph of grace, that whilst these faults of character and disposition remained for the most part only as a hidden thorn, the messenger of Satan to buffet him, the virtues to which they were allied, and all the faculties of his mind, were consecrated to the service of God and of his fellow-man, and his whole nature was enlarged, refined and elevated, by the all-powerful energy of the gospel.

To whom Patroclus said: Yea, certainly, emperor; then Nero gave to him a buffet, saying: Therefore thou servest him, and he said: Yea, verily, I serve him that hath raised me from death to life.

It was a miserable dog's life he lived with old Matt Abrahamson, for the old fisherman was in his cups more than half the time, and when he was so there was hardly a day passed that he did not give Tom a curse or a buffet or, as like as not, an actual beating.

The journey to TarbesThe Buffet and the NiggerLourdes station in the wetImportunate "Cochers"Hôtel des Pyrénées"Red tape" and PortersLourdes in sunshineSightseeingThe "Rue de la Grotte" "The Cry of the Lourdes Shopkeepers"Candle-sellersThe GrottoAbject reverenceThe ChurchSaint BernardInterior of churchThe panoramaAdmirable effectRue du FortThe castleThe view from the TowerPie de Mars, or Ringed Ousels CHAPTER IV. ARGELÈS.

The Buffet! Capital; and into the Buffet I accordingly went.

The Buffet! Capital; and into the Buffet I accordingly went.

" Their table was the one immediately beyond the buffet; and the café was very quiet, with only three other patrons, two of whom were playing chess while the third was reading an old issue of the Echo de Paris.

At the buffet of the one in question, I found Gerôme conversing volubly in Russian with a total stranger, a native.

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

"On Sunday morning the engine of the Paris-Marseilles express on arriving at the Gare de Lyon mounted the platform and only came to a standstill in front of the buffet.

A little cluster of wine bottles stood upon the buffet, and these had their necks knocked off, and were emptied down parched throats.

" Augustus was standing by the buffet drinking champagne when we caught sight of him.

Next we festooned the estate with helpful notices, such as "This way to the Trap >" and "Caterpillar Buffet first turn to Left."

I asked a ragamuffin who was playing with a nice little terrier in a village street where we ate an at fresco meal of jam-sandwiches with a motor-car for a buffet.

How the very wind Doth buffet me and chill my aged bones! Ringed all about with enemies, I stand Unharmedfor by Jehovah's dreadful curse I livenor can I dieuntil He come.

BUFFET, m., table où sont dressés des mets, des vins, des liqueurs, etc., pour une fête.

The Country Customer would not leave the Art Buffet until Bob had promised to come down and Visit him sometime.

A voluble and open-hearted person, the stranger, displaying much specie during their not infrequent visits to the buffet for refreshment of the jocund grape, where they vied with each other in liberality, and one who naively imparted his private history without reticence.

" 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.

Certainly, I promptly recognized mine when I saw that this was a Red Cross buffet.

A moment later a soldier approached the buffet.

A High-backed Chair (XV. Century) Medieval Bed and Bedroom A Scribe or Copyist Two German Chairs Carved Oak Buffet (French Gothic)

Carved Oak Table Flemish Buffet A Tapestried Room A Carved Oak Seat Interior of Apothecary's Shop Court of the Ladies of Queen Anne of Brittany Chapter III.

A tremendous buffet with the right intended for Macgregor's nose caught his forehead with a sounding whack.

Perhaps never again shall I be the willing victim of his buffets, never again shall I buffet him in return.