Meanwhile the Governor called upon the officers to apply the buskin of torture to the young man.

Their legs were bare; the undressed hide of the deer gave them buskins, a plaid covered the shoulders, and a broadsword, a dagger, a studded targe, completed the outfit.

He took his advice, laid aside the buskin, and stuck to the sock, in which he made a figure equal to most of his contemporaries.

He was not a great poet, but a man of graceful and sprightly talent, throughout possessing the vivid sensibilities of a poetic nature, but needing the tragic buskin to feel himself a poet and wholly destitute of the comic vein.

The fine arts are strangers to the principality; and the Welshman seldom professes the buskin, or the use of the mallet, the graver, or the chisel; but although deficient in taste, he excels in duties and in intellect.

I do not love great folks till they have pulled off their buskins and put on their slippers, because I do not care sixpence for what they would be thought, but for what they are.

4. The edition of 1657 reads, red buskins drawn with white ribband.

He stooped as if to secure the erring buskin, but suddenly lifted her like a child to his shoulder.

The men wear full frocks, made of white perkal, which reach from the hips to the knees, buskins from the knee to the feet, and shoes generally of red leather.