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  • Someone buffeted her aside.†   (source)
  • Buffeting fans on the ceiling did little to dispel the sweltering heat or the smell of death.†   (source)
  • Outside the window there was nothing to be seen but a buffeting curtain of white.†   (source)
  • Turbulence buffeted him, snatching the breath out of his mouth.†   (source)
  • The momentum of the aircraft keeps you in place; you don't even feel any wind buffeting.†   (source)
  • A small gust buffeted me just as we were coming in that first time.†   (source)
  • Hurricane winds buffeted the ship.†   (source)
  • Immediately these concerns began buffeting Wall Street.†   (source)
  • Although the air, now stinking from the burning tree, was still, Dee watched as an invisible, unfelt breeze whipped the Morrigan's cloak about her shoulders and buffeted the huge Bastet, making her tilt her head and lean forward into the wind.†   (source)
  • Buffeting gusts of wind, which had initially slowed him, now shortened the time it took to traverse the mini glacier that was thickening beneath his feet.†   (source)
  • He capered around in his stall, his black wings buffeting the air.†   (source)
  • She felt the buffeting of dust-blanketed wind.†   (source)
  • It's happening, just from the warming of the sun, the road and green prairie farmland and buffeting wind coming together.†   (source)
  • Now, however, she moves down an avenue gently buffeted by the familiar and therefore loved images.†   (source)
  • Outside the sky was clear, but icy gusts of wind were buffeting our barracks every few minutes, sending fresh dust puffs up through the floorboards.†   (source)
  • My child, buffeted on all sides, clutched at my hand fearfully as we entered a vast chamber, its walls adorned with mirrors.†   (source)
  • When Chico and I reached the corner, Lencho was clapping these hard, buffeting claps, like he was a thousand times relieved to see us.†   (source)
  • Sand buffets my face, biting at my skin before solidifying into another creature.†   (source)
  • People who grow up poor, fatherless, and buffeted by racism don't have the same commitment to social norms as those from healthy middle-class homes.†   (source)
  • That's what she looks like, actually—like a snowflake being buffeted around in the wind, twisting and turning on currents of air.†   (source)
  • Fogarty himself was buffeted by the concussions of the big shells coming in and going out, like gusts of a powerful wind.†   (source)
  • There were no trays here and no serve-yourself buffets.†   (source)
  • In the shaking of the truck and the buffeting of dust and wind, I can only breathe in short shallow gasps.†   (source)
  • He could feel the tensed, straddling inside of her buffeting thighs and knees squeezing and churning around one of his legs.†   (source)
  • Noisy blasts of air from his nostrils buffeted his face.†   (source)
  • "Struggle if you must," said he, "but kindly remember that I'm hiding down here in this crate and I don't want to be stepped on, or kicked in the face, or pummeled, or crushed in any way, or squashed, or buffeted about, or bruised, or lacerated, or scarred, or billed.†   (source)
  • A flurry of small brown birds erupted from the side of the road and were buffeted away on the wind.†   (source)
  • I surveyed the long stainless-steel buffets.†   (source)
  • I didn't feel the buffeting so much as before.†   (source)
  • Buffeting Max's leg appreciatively with her wing, Hannah waddled back toward the forest.†   (source)
  • Yet he's far away from me in a place where he's buffeted by emotions deep and unkind.†   (source)
  • The water churns and we are buffeted.†   (source)
  • No more dazzling breakfast buffets.†   (source)
  • The cars were steadily whizzing by me on the narrow two-way of Route 9, the muffled slingshot of their passing buffeted by the safety glass.†   (source)
  • The economy class section of Air France's Caravelle to Zurich was filled to capacity, the narrow seats made more uncomfortable by the turbulence that buffeted the plane.†   (source)
  • Looking down a long boulevard, he saw trees tossing snow skyward as they were buffeted by the wind.†   (source)
  • Merrick was skinny and ungainly, with the Whitshanks' definite jaw that looked better on the men than on the women, and that summer she was wearing her hair in a dramatic new style, flaring out on the left side but pressed flat to her skull on the right, so that it looked as if she were perpetually being buffeted by a strong wind.†   (source)
  • Iron Mountain was to the west, and at times it either buffeted the winds or blasted us with them.†   (source)
  • His toes were mashed, and he had been shoved, buffeted, butted in the ribs, and rammed in the groin.†   (source)
  • A small crowd had gathered around and Sophie saw the librarian quiver as if he were being buffeted by savage winds.†   (source)
  • I drove into a wind quartering in from my starboard bow and felt the buffeting, sometimes staggering blows of the gale I helped to make.†   (source)
  • Now the struggling winds were like groans of pain and there were thudding noises as the winds buffeted the sea, sounds like clubs banging on backs, sometimes cracking bones, an ungodly racket.†   (source)
  • Then the winds buffeted him, the mighty winds that circle through Heaven.†   (source)
  • He was in a hurry: he had to visit two patients and get back to his hospital as soon as possible, and there he was, wasting precious time, staring out of the window at the slanting streaks of rain buffeted by the autumn wind like a cornfield in a storm.†   (source)
  • Woodrow Wilson, for example, shortly before his death, buffeted by the Senate in his efforts on behalf of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, rejected the suggestion thathe seek a seat in the Senate from New Jersey, stating: "Outside of the United States, the Senate does not amount to a damn.†   (source)
  • Her shoulders dropping, her hair flying, her skirt buffeted by the sudden strong wind, she stood there, thinking they all must see that with her entire self all she did was wait.†   (source)
  • Its black wings spread in alarm, and the wind buffeted me back a step.†   (source)
  • Strong gusts of wind buffeted the train, and ghostly virga of ice followed it through the night.†   (source)
  • We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us.†   (source)
  • The wave ripped the oars from our hands, and my head was buffeted by cold salt.†   (source)
  • They staggered as a wall of air buffeted them.†   (source)
  • Eragon backed away, buffeted by the eddies from her wings, and returned to the horses.†   (source)
  • Hot, sweet breath buffeted Woref s face, and he jerked his eyes open.†   (source)
  • With his free hand, Roran buffeted the creature's head and shoulders-which were as hard as iron.†   (source)
  • Hostile winds buffeted us from side to side.†   (source)
  • One of the wings buffeted the sellsword in his face.†   (source)
  • Saphira wobbled as turbulence buffeted them.†   (source)
  • Max smiled as Hannah buffeted him playfully with her wing.†   (source)
  • Her kite buffeted the air with its massive wings.†   (source)
  • Storm after storm buffeted the train and buried the landscape in snow.†   (source)
  • The ship—and my stomach—are buffeted by waves even my magic cannot quell.†   (source)
  • Explosions, mists; buffeting winds followed by silences filled with tension.†   (source)
  • Rain and chilly winds buffeted the troops that day.†   (source)
  • And she took off, the gusts from her wings buffeting them.†   (source)
  • He's just a lively horse," trainer Conway said weakly as he was buffeted around.†   (source)
  • The Rakasha then rushed about his head, urging him downward with buffets and stings.†   (source)
  • Harry thought he saw it drop by a fraction — But suddenly footsteps were thundering up the stairs and a second later Malfoy was buffeted out of the way as four people in black robes burst through the door on to the ram-parts.†   (source)
  • The wintry night air was gushing through her shattered window, buffeting her body like an arctic wind.†   (source)
  • The wind buffeted the little cottage and the fire leapt and crackled, and Bill was soon opening another bottle of wine.†   (source)
  • The owl was so small, in fact, that it kept tumbling over in the air, buffeted this way and that in the train's slipstream.†   (source)
  • At 1:45 the next morning, May 11-around the same time Anatoli Boukreev was frantically searching the South Col for Sandy Pittman, Charlotte Fox, and Tim Madsen-two Japanese climbers, accompanied by three Sherpas, set out for the summit from the same high camp on the Northeast Ridge that the Ladakhis had used, despite the very high winds buffeting the peak.†   (source)
  • As the air currents buffeted her body, her clothes clung, accentuating her slender torso and small breasts.†   (source)
  • Twice in one week, Super Man flew into storms that buffeted the plane so violently that Phil lost control.†   (source)
  • Near the southern tip of South America, where the wind sweeps the land like "the broom of God"-'Vaescoba de Dios, " as the locals say-I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre; buffeted by hundred-knot winds, plastered with frangible atmospheric time, it was once (though no longer) thought to be the world's hardest mountain.†   (source)
  • The wind tore through the square, letting out a sepulchral moan as it whistled through the columns and buffeted the walls.†   (source)
  • I had not put on a cloak, and the rising storm-winds buffeted me as I climbed the peak to where Arcturos stood.†   (source)
  • The matronly goose buffeted Max forward with her powerful wing and whistled for the goslings to fall in line.†   (source)
  • The force of the impact pushed Thorn backward off the black-shrike-thorn-cave, and he flailed his wings, buffeting Saphira as both he and she fell toward the ground.†   (source)
  • His sisters had been kind to him, and though the other girls would sometimes taunt him, cruel words were easier to shrug off than the blows and buffets he got from the other castle boys.†   (source)
  • And then a hot wind buffeted him and he heard the sound of leathern wings and the air was full of ash and cinders and a monstrous roar went echoing off the scorched and blackened bricks and he could hear his friends shouting wildly.†   (source)
  • He raced tentatively, and with the winds buffeting him through the homestretch, won by a modest margin over his stablemate Exhibit.†   (source)
  • 131): While those going to the Ewen Spring Ball were gathering at the high school or just leaving pre-Prom buffets, Christine Hargensen and William Nolan had met in a room above a local town-limits tavern called The Cavalier.†   (source)
  • Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.†   (source)
  • Down, down the balloon swept and spun toward the earth, curving away north as it was buffeted about by the icy gusts.†   (source)
  • Rhaegal and Viserion were fighting over a scrap of meat, buffeting each other with their wings as smoke hissed from their nostrils.†   (source)
  • Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius.†   (source)
  • …when Dobbs wrested the controls away from Huple and hurled them all down suddenly into the deafening, paralyzing, horrifying dive which had plastered Yossarian helplessly to the ceiling of the plane by the top of his head and from which Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.†   (source)
  • I hadn't eaten anything since last night, and apparently my system had gotten spoiled after a couple of all-you-can-eat Viking buffets.†   (source)
  • Wind buffeted his hair.†   (source)
  • But then black wings buffeted her round the head, and a scream of fury cut the indigo air, and suddenly the visions were gone, ripped away, and Dany's gasp turned to horror.†   (source)
  • There was driving rain and sleet and the howl of unimaginable gales as the Ormenheid was buffeted about like a spinning top.†   (source)
  • Then I heard a little buffeting sound on the trees like a whole audience of people were tapping their fingers lightly on paper.†   (source)
  • The wind buffeted me as I leaned out, scanning the ground below, hoping to steal a glance of the city of Abbottabad.†   (source)
  • And then Firnen swept down from above and snatched her off the deck of the ship, buffeting Eragon with the gusts of air from his wings.†   (source)
  • We prop open the door against the buffeting wind and form a convoy, carrying and dragging boxes into the room.†   (source)
  • Saphira tried to maneuver out from under him, but every time she did, he dove at her, biting and buffeting her with his wings in order to make her change course.†   (source)
  • For the first time in a year and a half I was grateful for the opportunity to hide behind the chad or The cold wind buffeted me as I made my way to a pay telephone at a corner a safe distance away.†   (source)
  • Late that night, when all was cold and black, the wind abated and, thereafter, only occasionally buffeted them with a gust.†   (source)
  • Saphira exclaimed, and the world pitched and plunged around Eragon as she leaped off the ground, and a rush of air buffeted him as she flapped her massive, batlike wings, driving them higher and higher into the sky.†   (source)
  • Bright as a flaming sun, the dragon hung before Eragon and everyone clustered along the Crags of Tel'naeir, buffeting them with gusts from its mighty wings.†   (source)
  • As he shinnied back in the saddle, Count Atlas leaned hard into Seabiscuit, buffeting his right side as the field bounded away from them.†   (source)
  • She snapped at Thorn's neck-causing him to shy away-and raked his shoulders and chest with her front claws and buffeted him with her huge wings.†   (source)
  • She can barely drag along, using all her strength, but the blizzard knocks her down, she stumbles and falls and gets up, too weak to stand on her feet, the wind buffeting her and the snow covering her up.†   (source)
  • I am going to be buffeted; to be flung up, and flung down, among men, like a ship on the sea.†   (source)
  • The Doctor, still in the act of getting to his feet, was thrown forward and around and over; he was buffeted and gripped; he lost track of everything, because things were so speeded up; he felt the water.†   (source)
  • Wet straw was in his draggled beard; he was so sore and stiff, so bruised and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble through the shallow water to lie groaning on the shore.†   (source)
  • The only difference was that now, in their fencing lessons, Kay and his companion were an easy match for the pot-bellied sergeant, and paid him back accidentally for many of the buffets which he had once given them.†   (source)
  • The argument seemed to have sailed into a harbor after many buffetings, and Conway added: "I can't help my feelings either.†   (source)
  • When Rieux was preparing to leave the church a violent gust swept up the nave through the half-open doors and buffeted the faces of the departing congregation.†   (source)
  • He shrank from the physical conflict of boy life, but knowing her eye was upon him he plunged desperately into their games, his frail strength buffeted in the rush of strong legs, the heavy jar of strong bodies, picking himself up bruised and sore at heart to follow and join again the mill of the burly pack.†   (source)
  • This human form, his friend's, lacerated by the spear-thrusts of the plague, consumed by searing, superhuman fires, buffeted by all the raging winds of heaven, was foundering under his eyes in the dark flood of the pestilence, and he could do nothing to avert the wreck.†   (source)
  • He alone is unconscious of their tricks, and when he catches them at it he buffets them good-humouredly with a blow of his paw.†   (source)
  • …the struggling knights seem perfectly incandescent Wherever you went, during the first years, every vista had been terminated by a marching column of mercenaries, robbing and piling from the Marches—or by a knight of the new order exchanging buffets with a conservative baron whom he was trying to restrain from murdering serfs—or by a golden-haired maiden being rescued out of some lofty keep by means of leather ladders—or by Sir Bruce Saunce Pite riding a full wallop with Sir Lancelot…†   (source)
  • …with brown; the houses on the outskirts of the city, standing but decrepit, with broken windows and dishevelled tiles; and then, quite suddenly, the beginning of the four square miles of reddish-brown scar, where nearly everything had been buffeted down and burned; range on range of collapsed city blocks, with here and there a crude sign erected on a pile of ashes and tiles ('Sister, where are you?' or 'All safe and we live at Toyosaka'); naked trees and canted telephone poles; the few…†   (source)
  • Now there was only the liquid shadow of the cloud, the buffeting of the rain, a single darting spear of sunshine, or the sudden bruise of the rainstorm.†   (source)
  • I am a stranger in a strange city and I am buffeted by the philistines.†   (source)
  • Contrary winds buffeted at the street corner.†   (source)
  • At the same moment there came a sort of dull flapping or buffeting at the window.†   (source)
  • As she lay there in my arms, and I in hers the flapping and buffeting came to the window again.†   (source)
  • He did so at last, buffeted his way into smooth waters, and made money largely.†   (source)
  • It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in.†   (source)
  • At luncheon things were better—it was always a fine meal; a thousand lunches in inns and restaurants, wagon-lits, buffets, and aeroplanes were a mighty collation to have taken together.†   (source)
  • Then followed such a thing as England had never seen before—the sacred person of the heir to the throne rudely buffeted by plebeian hands, and set upon and torn by dogs.†   (source)
  • The poor fellow may have been seated at one time, but the flapping and buffeting of the sails had worked through the rudder of the wheel and had dragged him to and fro, so that the cords with which he was tied had cut the flesh to the bone.†   (source)
  • He was a mason; the levee that buffeted back the rage of the Colorado in flood, the wall that turned the creek, the irrigation tunnel, the zigzag trail cut on the face of the cliff—all these attested his eye for line, his judgment of distance, his strength in toil.†   (source)
  • But Dr. Lal, being of low extraction, was not sure whether an insult had not been intended, and he was further annoyed because Aziz had buffeted the Brahminy Bull.†   (source)
  • She had said at once, "You're not comfortable there; wait a minute, I'll arrange things for you," and with a titter of laughter, the complacency of which implied that some little invention of her own was being brought into play, she had installed behind his head and beneath his feet great cushions of Japanese silk, which she pummelled and buffeted as though determined to lavish on him all her riches, and regardless of their value.†   (source)
  • Any definite situation would be more tolerable than this buffeting of chances, which kept her in an attitude of uneasy alertness toward every possibility of life.†   (source)
  • By reason of his own early buffetings at the mood of chance and established prosperity the idea appealed to him intensely.†   (source)
  • Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.†   (source)
  • He is so zealous that he gets many snubs and buffetings from people of a different way of thinking from himself, and I don't like to hear of such humiliations to a man of his age, the more particularly as I don't think earnestness does any good when carried so far.†   (source)
  • Another mile of buffeting this increasing gale so exhausted Carley and wrought upon her nerves that she became nearly panic-stricken.†   (source)
  • How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and overmastered by Fate, had been borne in upon her with appalling force.†   (source)
  • I was in two minds whether to run away; but anger got the upper hand, and I began instead to rain kicks and buffets on the door, and to shout out aloud for Mr. Balfour.†   (source)
  • It was a brilliant day; a southerly buster was raging, and we could see the passers-by, men and women, buffeted by the wind on the sidewalks, the sunlit fronts of the houses across the road blurred by the tall whirls of dust.†   (source)
  • Came days of storm, days and nights of storm, when the ocean menaced us with its roaring whiteness, and the wind smote our struggling boat with a Titan's buffets.†   (source)
  • They looked in at a shop window; they did not wish to buy or to talk but to part, only with contrary winds buffeting the street corner, with some sort of lapse in the tides of the body, two forces meeting in a swirl, morning and afternoon, they paused.†   (source)
  • Presently he said, in a mild voice— "Thy wits seem touched, poor stranger; doubtless thou hast suffered privations and rude buffetings at the world's hands; thy looks and dress betoken it.†   (source)
  • And he had been so buffeted, so rudely entreated by his own kind, that it was a real comfort to him to feel that he was at last in the society of a fellow-creature that had at least a soft heart and a gentle spirit, whatever loftier attributes might be lacking.†   (source)
  • Damp and soggy where it was not sharp and rocky, buffeted by storm winds and lashed by the sea, with the air continually a-tremble with the bellowing of two hundred thousand amphibians, it was a melancholy and miserable sojourning-place.†   (source)
  • The sun might go in and out, on the tassels, on the wall-paper, but he would wait, he thought, stretching out his feet, looking at his ringed sock at the end of the sofa; he would wait in this warm place, this pocket of still air, which one comes on at the edge of a wood sometimes in the evening, when, because of a fall in the ground, or some arrangement of the trees (one must be scientific above all, scientific), warmth lingers, and the air buffets the cheek like the wing of a bird.†   (source)
  • I went to the window and looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat, which had evidently been buffeting its wings against the window.†   (source)
  • The two hands of Madame Defarge buffeted and tore her face; but, Miss Pross, with her head down, held her round the waist, and clung to her with more than the hold of a drowning woman.†   (source)
  • Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flatteries, And froth with mean self-lauding lies.†   (source)
  • I had it in my thoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way of pursuing any fancy that he took — such as this buffeting of rough seas, and braving of hard weather, for example — when my mind glanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, and pursued that instead.†   (source)
  • Yet he was not only the same man, but that man with his sinister qualities, formerly latent, quickened into life by his buffetings.†   (source)
  • We cannot steer; we shall be buffeted by the tempests, and we should be fools and madmen to attempt to cross a second time.†   (source)
  • I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.†   (source)
  • The drover, the sailor, buffets it all day, and his health renews itself at as vigorous a pulse under the sleet as under the sun of June.†   (source)
  • The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dropped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.†   (source)
  • …the life-matrimonial, may perhaps suggest, in this place, that the good couple would be better likened to two principals in a sparring match, who, when fortune is low and backers scarce, will chivalrously set to, for the mere pleasure of the buffeting; and in one respect indeed this comparison would hold good; for, as the adventurous pair of the Fives' Court will afterwards send round a hat, and trust to the bounty of the lookers-on for the means of regaling themselves, so Mr Godfrey…†   (source)
  • During what long thankless nights had she worked out her fingers for little Georgy whilst at home with her; what buffets, scorns, privations, poverties had she endured for father and mother!†   (source)
  • But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world—despised by all, and pitied by none.†   (source)
  • But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.†   (source)
  • "Prior," said Ivanhoe, "thou dost mistake—I am stout enough to exchange buffets with any who will challenge me to such a traffic—But were it otherwise, may I not aid him were he in danger, by other means than by force of arms?†   (source)
  • They spat upon him and buffeted him, they scourged him, they mocked him, they laid the heavy cross on his bruised shoulders.†   (source)
  • It was nearly impossible to stand up on the platform, which was continuously buffeted by this enormously heavy sea.†   (source)
  • It seemed to me that he took all blows and buffets now with just the same air as he had taken mine then.†   (source)
  • Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes?†   (source)
  • Suddenly everything around him seemed to fade, and a vision rose before him of one crowned with thorns, buffeted and bleeding.†   (source)
  • Ham watched the sea, standing alone, with the silence of suspended breath behind him, and the storm before, until there was a great retiring wave, when, with a backward glance at those who held the rope which was made fast round his body, he dashed in after it, and in a moment was buffeting with the water; rising with the hills, falling with the valleys, lost beneath the foam; then drawn again to land.†   (source)
  • Buffetings inflicted without cause, would have been equally a matter of course; for to them also he had served a long and weary apprenticeship; but it was no sooner observed that he had become attached to Nicholas, than stripes and blows, stripes and blows, morning, noon, and night, were his only portion.†   (source)
  • "Nay, then, Valour and Folly are once more boon companions," said the Jester, coming up frankly to the Knight's side; "but, in truth, I love not such buffets as that you bestowed on the burly Friar, when his holiness rolled on the green like a king of the nine-pins.†   (source)
  • The mounted knights, whose lances had been almost all broken by the fury of the encounter, were now closely engaged with their swords, shouting their war-cries, and exchanging buffets, as if honour and life depended on the issue of the combat.†   (source)
  • For as the French book saith, Sir Pelleas gave such buffets there that none armour might hold him.†   (source)
  • When Sir Palamides beheld his countenance, he dread his buffets so, that he granted all his askings.†   (source)
  • Three times he made his killing thrust; three times the Lord Apollo buffeted his shield, throwing him back.†   (source)
  • To this the mistress of baying packs, her hair tied back, replied: "Your lady, Hera, buffeted me, Father.†   (source)
  • Around his leg the new shinguard of tin rang out deafeningly; back from the point of impact sprang the spearhead, piercing nothing, buffeted back by the god's gift.†   (source)
  • That may I repent, said Dinadan, for this unhappy Sir Tristram brought us to this tournament, and many great buffets he caused us to have.†   (source)
  • And when he felt their buffets and his wound, the which was so grievous, then he thought to do what he might while he might endure.†   (source)
  • Now with his Thracian broadsword Helenos cut at Deipyros' head and broke his helm off: buffeted to the ground and underfoot it rolled till an Akhaian fighter caught it, but black night closed on Deipyros' eyes.†   (source)
  • Each time the great battlefield runner, Prince Akhilleus, turned to make a stand—to learn if all the immortal gods who own the sweep of heaven chased him—every time, the rain-fed river s crest buffeted his back, and cursing he leapt high in the air.†   (source)
  • Sir, said Sir Gawaine, I would say it were Sir Launcelot by his riding and his buffets that I see him deal, but ever meseemeth it should not be he, for that he beareth the red sleeve upon his head; for I wist him never bear token at no jousts, of lady nor gentlewoman.†   (source)
  • Then lightly they avoided their horses and put their shields afore them, and drew their swords and ran together like two fierce lions, and either gave other such buffets upon their helms that they reeled backward both two strides; and then they recovered both, and hewed great pieces off their harness and their shields that a great part fell into the fields.†   (source)
  • No surge from open sea, whipped by a norther, buffets down on land with such a roar, nor does a forest fire in mountain valleys blazing up through woods, nor stormwind in the towering boughs of oaks when at its height it rages, make a roar as great as this, when Trojans and Akhaians hurled themselves at one another.†   (source)
  • THEN Sir Gawaine and Sir Launcelot departed a great way asunder, and then they came together with all their horses' might as they might run, and either smote other in midst of their shields; but the knights were so strong, and their spears so big, that their horses might not endure their buffets, and so their horses fell to the earth; and then they avoided their horses, and dressed their shields afore them.†   (source)
  • If that happened at real buffets, that would be incredible.†   (source)
  • Head, redconecapped, buffeted, brineblinded.†   (source)
  • As he strode past Mr Bloom's dental windows the sway of his dustcoat brushed rudely from its angle a slender tapping cane and swept onwards, having buffeted a thewless body.†   (source)
  • …frame, thy springs and valves, the tremulous twinkle of thy wheels, Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily following, Through gale or calm, now swift, now slack, yet steadily careering; Type of the modern—emblem of motion and power—pulse of the continent, For once come serve the Muse and merge in verse, even as here I see thee, With storm and buffeting gusts of wind and falling snow, By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes, By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.†   (source)
  • When Sir Palamides beheld his countenance, he dread his buffets so, that he granted all his askings.†   (source)
  • For as the French book saith, Sir Pelleas gave such buffets there that none armour might hold him.†   (source)
  • He so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets himself on the forehead, crying 'Peer out, peer out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but tameness, civility, and patience, to this his distemper he is in now.†   (source)
  • For, as thou seest thyself, our ship of State, Sore buffeted, can no more lift her head, Foundered beneath a weltering surge of blood.†   (source)
  • I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.†   (source)
  • "I can remedy that entirely," said he of the Grove, "and in this way: before we begin the battle, I will come up to your worship fair and softly, and give you three or four buffets, with which I shall stretch you at my feet and rouse your anger, though it were sleeping sounder than a dormouse."†   (source)
  • But, in reality, we are not so fond of paying compliments to these people, whom we use as children frequently do the instruments of their amusement; and have much more pleasure in hissing and buffeting them, than in admiring their excellence.†   (source)
  • O, I could divide myself, and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of skimm'd milk with so honourable an action!†   (source)
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