busk

But the knife had fortunately, we ought to say skillfully, come in contact with the steel busk, which at that period, like a cuirass, defended the chests of women.

Would it not be well if we were to celebrate such a "busk," or "feast of first fruits," as Bartram describes to have been the custom of the Mucclasse Indians?

"Now busk ye, my merry men all," quoth he, "and bring forth the best we have, both of meat and wine, for his worship the Sheriff hath feasted me in Nottingham Guild Hall today, and I would not have him go back empty."

That how she was as handsome a lady, ma'am, as lived, no matter wheres, and a busk like marble itself.

Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.

As every one knows, these same hogs' bristles, fins, whiskers, blinds, or whatever you please, furnish to the ladies their busks and other stiffening contrivances.

But before he had written books he was in my part of the country with a fishing-wand in his hand, and I like to think that I was the boy who met him that day by Queen Margaret's burn, where the rowans are, and busked a fly for him, and stood watching, while his lithe figure rose and fell as he cast and hinted back from the crystal waters of Noran-side.

Lasse Bjerre took Heat Five by the scruff of the neck for a solid win over Summers in a home 4-2 before Clegg and Worrall hit another 5-1 in Heat Six over Garcia as Busk Jakobsen took an uncharacteristic fall on the second bend of the second lap.

Come Heat Nine, the Tigers brought in tactical substitute Cook for Chessell but he found himself in third behind Gappmaier and Busk Jakobsen who took the 5-1, as did Starke behind Summers and Doolan in the | Craig Cook 10th, leaving the interval score set at 37-23.

She said: "If you're playing an electric guitar, you can't busk without an amp.

"I've busked around the world, in places like Belgium and San Francisco," he says.

I did inform the officers that I am well known to the council already and that at least for the moment Cardiff doesn't require a permit to busk except on private land."