"Busk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Lisbeth. "Clever, a musician, three-and-twenty, a pretty, innocent face, a dazzling white skin, teeth like a puppy's, eyes like stars, a beautiful forehead—and tiny feet, I never saw the like, they are not wider than her stay-busk." ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... Petra. Mrs. Busk isn't a bit like that, mother; I saw quite plainly how it hurt her to do it. But she didn't dare do otherwise, she said; and so ...
— An Enemy of the People • Henrik Ibsen
... "Now wake thee, love, if thou art living and well." Sir Middel he heard her, and sprang from his bed; Not knowing her voice, in confusion he said, "Away: for I have neither candle nor light, And I swear that no mortal shall enter this night!" "Now busk ye, Sir Middel, in Christ's holy name; I fly from my mother, who knows of my shame; She'll hang thee up; yes, she will hang thee with scorn, And burn me to ashes, at breaking of morn." "Ha! laugh at her threat'nings, so empty and wild; She neither shall hang me, nor burn thee, ...
— Romantic Ballads - translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces • George Borrow
... "Wake, Grisly. Busk and bonne for thy wedding-morning instantly. Copeland is to keep his troth to thee at once. The Earl of Warwick hath granted his life to thy father ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... service Isaac Davis, formerly this deponent's servant, then was, under cover to Admiral Bickerton, at Portsmouth, and that Admiral Bickerton returned the letter, saying, that Admiral Fleming had sailed for Gibraltar; that this deponent sent his servants, Thomas Dewman, Elizabeth Busk, and Mary Turpin, on the trial of this indictment, to prove that an officer came to this deponent's house on the morning of the said twenty-first of February, and to prove the dress that he came in, but that the said Thomas ...
— The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, • William Brodie Gurney
... it were hard to deny thee time to busk thy body clothes, since the request is the only words like a woman that thou hast uttered for these ten days. Truly, son Harry, I would my daughter would put off being entirely a saint till the time comes for her being canonised for ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott
... direction an excellent plaster cast was made for Sir Charles Lyell. It is upon and from a duplicate of that cast that my own observations and the accompanying figures, the outlines of which are copied from very accurate Camera lucida drawings, by my friend Mr. Busk, reduced to one-half of the natural ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley
... initial of identification, which answers the same purpose, as the Icelandic nickname, thus: "John P Smith."—"John Q Smith". As a general rule the translator has withstood the temptation to use old English words. "Busk" and "boun" he pleads guilty to, because both still linger in the language understood by few. "Busk" is a reflective formed from 'eat bua sik,' "to get oneself ready," and "boun" is the past participle of the active form ...
— The story of Burnt Njal - From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga • Anonymous
... propounded the scheme to his most intimate friends, Joseph Dalton Hooker, then Assistant Director of Kew, and John Tyndall, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Royal Institution. George Busk, the anatomist, afterwards President of the College of Surgeons, was another whose friendship dated from soon after the return of the Rattlesnake to England. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, and Sir John Lubbock, banker and naturalist, were friends of nearly ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley
... do thou send a messenger swiftly to the Phrygians of the dappled steeds, to tell my father of my fortunes, and my sorrowing mother; gold enough and woven raiment will they send, and many and goodly gifts shall be thy meed. Do thou all this, and then busk the winsome wedding-feast, that is honourable among ...
— The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological • Andrew Lang |
