Warn'd and shielded from every buffet Of the deadly wave, I feel secure.

" David and I went into the buffet of the cinema after the fight to hear the arguments over it, and he to collect bets.

It was like the changes that come over us so often, as we toss upon the tide of life, and buffet its adverse storms.

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

Un buffet, orné superbement, offrait aux danseurs une collation apprêtée avec une royale magnificence.

Les regards des spectateurs furent bientôt attirés sur une personne de haute taille, couverte d'un domino jaune, que trois ou quatre fois déjà on avait vue s'approcher du buffet.

au renouvellement ininterrompu des provisions du buffet.

Sous quel règne a-t-on donné cette fête, et à quelle occasion?Qu'est-ce que le buffet offrait

aux joies de la fête?La reine a-t-elle ri de la mascarade?A-t-on continué de veiller au renouvellement des provisions du buffet?

The man with the insatiable stomach approaches the buffet.

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

Here another officer was talking over a telephone in an explicit, businesslike fashion about "sending up more bombs," while we looked at maps spread out on narrow, improvised tables, such as are used for a buffet at a reception.

Let me alone to buffet and be buffetted.

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.

[Illustration: Carved Oak Buffet in Gothic Style (Viollet le Duc).

The Flemish buffet here illustrated is an example of this transition, and may be contrasted with the French Gothic buffet referred to in the following paragraph.

The Flemish buffet here illustrated is an example of this transition, and may be contrasted with the French Gothic buffet referred to in the following paragraph.

The buffet on page 43 is an excellent specimen of the best fifteenth century French Gothic oak work, and the woodcut shows the arrangement of gold and silver plate on the white linen cloth with embroidered ends, in use at this time.

[Illustration: Flemish Buffet.

Instead of the warm chimney corner and the comfortable seat, he preferred furniture of a more palatial character for the adornment of the lofty and spacious saloons of his palace, and therefore we find the buffet elaborately carved, with a free treatment of the classic antique which marks the time; it was frequently "garnished" with the beautiful majolica of Urbino, of Pesaro, and of Gubbio.

[Illustration: German Carved Oak Buffet, 17th Century.

Chimney pieces, which in the fourteenth century were merely stone smoke shafts supported by corbels, have been replaced by handsome carved oak erections, ornamenting the hall or room from floor to ceiling, and the English livery cupboard, with its foreign contemporary the buffet, is the forerunner of the sideboard of the future.

As if in answer to his command, a blustering, hot buffet of wind roared down with amazing suddenness, filling the dark air with a stinging drive of sand.

Here a buffet was arranged.