How To Use Blucher In A Sentence
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Bluchers are more appropriate than balmorals with jeans and business-casual, but balmorals are more appropriate with suits.
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Since balmorals are more formal than bluchers and broguing makes shoes less formal, where does this leave those shoes that are both brogued and balmorals?
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When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1
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Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.”
Mark Twain
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Blücher was compelled to give ground, and his repulse was the signal for a general Allied retreat.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
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Foundry's version of Blucher (left) and Hohenlohe (center) compared to an Elite Miniatures general (right).
Archive 2009-05-01
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Bals generally should have a small gap at the top of the lacing, while bluchers often have a larger one through the length of the lacing.
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I believe balmorals should have a gap of ¼ " and bluchers about ¾ "; otherwise it looks so school-boyish.
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This drew a croud to the beach and we walkd a long way under Shakespear's Cliff, but on the arrival of a boat instead of Old Blucher, [3] she landed Count Meternich the Austrian Ambasador, whom the croud took on their shoulders and caried against his will to the Ship
Letter 290
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Captain Davis let us have five pairs of light bluchers out of the ship's stores, and we reckoned that these with extra soles and a few hobnails would hold out till August or September, when a sealing vessel was expected.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers.
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These absurd little scarlet bluchers with tassels are for little boys; the brown morocco shoes are for grooms
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Then again, I still find the running “blucher!” gag in Young Frankenstein hysterical.
Hullabaloo
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A repository of the empire, the town bears a suitably idiotic, unwieldy name, and even in 1950s Armidale it was possible to hear such terms as bluchers, port and goolies (balls).
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Shiny black five-eyelet lace-ups, bal wingtips and straight tip blucher shoes - with or without perforated detailing on toes - are also sure bets.
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I have been commanded to strike two Medals at the Royal Mint in commemoration of the battles of Les Quatre Bras and Waterloo; One, in gold, of the largest size, to embrace the exploits of the allied army under the Duke of Wellington the Prince of Orange and the Duke of Brunswick, and of the Prussian Army under Field Marshal Blucher.
Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News
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Asked to explain the gag, he says it's an urban legend - that "blucher" means "glue" in German.
Ajc.com - News
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And bluchers only please, cap toes look to businessy.
Men's Formal Wear - dfi
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A pair of hob-nailed bluchers and a battered straw hat gave a somewhat feeble finish to these magnificences.
Aunt Rachel
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In a pinch, i.e., when travelling I might wear a pair of my dressier bluchers with a suit, but I'd feel a little guilty about the slightly subpar pairing.
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Blucher, Vasily Konstantinovich: Known as Galen, he was the chief Russian adviser to Chiang Kai-shek at the military school of Whampoa.
The Last Empress
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A pair of old bluchers was on one side of the door and a large red watering-can on the other.
The Garden Party, and Other Stories
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Teddy thought this was a very unkind cut of the mate at poor Jones's boots, which were a dilapidated pair of bluchers that needed mending badly; still, he couldn't help smiling, which didn't seem to please Mr
Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle
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I was wearing the clothes of a ship's boy, canvas trousers, thick blucher shoes, a rough check shirt, and a straw hat.
Jim Davis
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He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.
Oliver Twist
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The woman's shoe and heel resemble a blucher-style oxford seen in a pre-takeoff photo of Earhart.
Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart
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When derided for mounting a pair of Government “bluchers,” tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, “Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them.”
The Land of Midian
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“How the deuce should I know? or what do I care?” cries the young artist, stamping the heel of his blucher on the pavement.
The Newcomes
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The little crowd outside the hut: selectors in washed and mended tweeds, some with paper collars, some wearing starched and ironed white coats, and in blucher boots, greased or blackened, or the young men wearing
Children of the Bush
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