How To Use Busk In A Sentence
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The band coalesced in 1998 during a legendary trek across Canada, where the members busked and barnstormed for gas money and food whenever they could.
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So, the increasingly relaxed attitude of the police has meant that more musicians are now able to do a spot of casual busking in order to make some quick cash.
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But most of the people in Dundas Square are watching a nearby busker, especially now that he's standing on a 10-foot ladder, juggling knives.
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He sells records by the lorry load - and commuters in the capital are falling over buskers on every street corner.
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In France, tragedy was elevated on her loftiest buskin.
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DW: I think for my new solo record, I took an idea from Live At The Pantages, actually, because I'm considering having one disk of busker versions with just one instrument and me, and then a second disk of full on band recording.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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This is a favourite haunt of buskers and artists, hanging out amid the theatres and restaurants in a manner reminiscent of Paris.
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In one scene he was busking and putting so much into his singing (aka shouting) that I just thought - wow, he wouldn't last 10 minutes let alone half a day, singing like that on the street, and yes, I know he has busked for real.
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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I'll probably make more money busking if I take him along with me.
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Mr Robinson said he had been horrified to watch the Boxing Day disaster unfold and was desperate to raise money from busking as he could not afford to give any cash himself.
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‘Busking is the truest form of performing art, contending with the elements, the audiences, the atmosphere and the unexpected,’ she said.
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Buskins are presumed by Strutt to have resembled "the shoes of the carpenter's wife in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," which the poet says 'were laced high upon her legs'.
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She wears a corslet and buskins of scale-mail, which latter her robe discloses.
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Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.
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The success of the performance depends solely on how well the busker can grab and hold a crowd's attention.
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There was also a cope of exquisite grey silk on which was woven a female figure with buskined legs, wearing a short sky-blue tunic and the red Phrygian cap.
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The two books under review do get rid of the buskin and aureole.
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Goldsmith's opinion has the look and feel of a very clever lawyer busking it, with the best help he can get from some other non-authoritative lawyers.
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--- Ye silly tawpie '' (addressing the maid-servant as she entered), ` ` what garr'd ye busk up your cockemony that gate?
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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He regarded the man again; it was very strange, as if a circular stage, the buskined world's tragic-comic wheel of fortune, had turned, and a person whom he had seen in one character had reappeared in another.
Half A Chance
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London's trumpeting busker played the downtown streets and community for many years before giving it up this year.
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Superficially, the play follows The Tempest's plot-line and uses Philoctetes’ setting, but this isn't just Shakespeare in Greek buskins.
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To increase their height the tragic performers wore the cothurnus, a sort of buskin with high soles and still higher heels.
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A supply depot was established at Cambuskenneth, within a protective loop of the river.
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The costume of an Amazonian crest and plume, a tucked-up vest, and a tight buskin of sky-blue silk, buckled with diamonds, reconciled Lady Binks to the part of Hippolyta.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Ya know, I kinda like the Roman soldier buskin look, with the laces strapped around my legs.
Lace Lament
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I had been touring for about two years and I did about half of my shows solo, busker style -- just with an acoustic guitar -- and I did about half my shows with a full band, which was a crew of my friends from Minneapolis.
Mike Ragogna: Beyond Dirty Dancing & Semisonic : Conversations with Dan Wilson and Franke Previte
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The busker was a tall young man, built like a linebacker.
Spirits White As Lightning
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A passer-by has taken me for a busker and thrown me 50p.
Times, Sunday Times
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Marc has become as much a part of city centre landscape as the cathedral after 18 years busking on the streets.
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At 19 he moved to London where he developed his idiosyncratic style while busking in the London Underground.
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Soon after her return she saw a group of street musicians busking in the Latin Quarter.
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The dice tells us to write a song and busk it in public the following day.
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He estimated a crowd of more than 1000 people who were stunned at the drummers, fire twirlers, fashion parades, dancers, puppet shows, a DJ, street performers and buskers.
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Elaborately he swung back his buskined foot, aimed and planted a kick in the middle of the inert body, with force enough to drive it a handsbreadth across the slimy floor.
Conan The Warlord
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Mary Lou's new album finds her back on the tracks busking and belting.
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The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music.
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Forget giving concerts and recitals: if you want a career in classical music then start busking, as it increasingly seems that the place to get spotted is out on the streets.
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The case in Shawnee County District Court isn't the first time DeBusk has been charged with posing as someone he wasn't.
Tim Debusk aka Timothy Allen DeBusk
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He was renowned for his skills as a musician and singer and took to busking on the streets to promote one charity campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Galway loves live music, and you'll find a busker on almost every street corner.
The Sun
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Buskers used to be arrested for making a racket for the sake of the price of a cup of tea.
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A corset busk consists of two long pieces of steel, one with steel knobs and the other one steel loops/eyes.
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I think we'll set off for France and just busk it.
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Sweat trickles down the face of a man busking in a steamy town square.
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It was more I was fed up with busking it, which you are not really allowed to say if you are a doctor.
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Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the ...
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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One or two of the gang climbed the banks to discover if any bailiffs were on the watch; while the others sat down, and with the help of the turnip lantern "busked" their spears; in other words, fastened on the steel -- or, it might be, merely pieces of rusty iron sharpened into a point at home -- to the staves.
Auld Licht Idyls
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Scott was accepted in spite of the idiom which he sometimes employed, and not because of it, and one can only laugh at the fancy presented to the mind by the picture of an English or a foreign reader who for the first time found himself confronted by Mrs. Bartlemy Saddletree's query to her maid: 'What gart ye busk your cockernony that gait?'
My Contemporaries In Fiction
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Jorge admits he finds it difficult to survive on the wage earned solely from busking.
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Now, the violin-playing twosome also credit their time spent busking in towns across northern England with giving them their first vital professional break.
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Indeed, her laudable anxiety to be tidy and compact in her own conscience as well as in the public eye, gave rise to one of her most startling evolutions, which was to grasp herself sometimes by a sort of wooden handle (part of her clothing, and familiarly called a busk), and wrestle as it were with her garments, until they fell into a symmetrical arrangement.
The Battle of Life
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She could have had a Court of Virgins, or gone like Artemis, buskined through the thickets, with a hundred high-girdled nymphs behind her, all for her sake locked in chastity.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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They spent their free time in Glasgow busking in Argyle Street.
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Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
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Mr Busk as usual, got out of the chaise and walked up the hill to save the horse - one of the chickens escaped, the boy alighted to capture it, and, possibly due to the noise of the chicken, the chaise horse bolted
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Shoppers couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted a world-famous band busking in a Manchester street.
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Busking and jiving - Bolton rocked away the weekend with music and dance.
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Before his career took off he did several odd jobs to pay the rent - busking on London's underground and peeling potatoes in a fish and chip shop.
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But now at last has Christmas come, And little Jack, who beats the drum, Cries round the hamlet, with his beaming face: "Come brisken up, you maidens fair, A merry busking [4] shall take place On Friday, first night of the year!
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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But an MP3 player with a music store and hundreds of music channels built-in could make the iPod seem unconnected, which is rarely a good thing to be Eliot Van Buskirk, who also contributes to the Listening Post blog , has covered digital music since 1998, after seeing the world's first MP3 player sitting on a colleague's desk.
The Music Store in Your Pocket
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground
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I busked here before I was old enough to play in bars.
Sea and Symphony
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Setting her apart is the fact she writes her own songs - and served her apprenticeship busking on the streets of Glasgow.
The Sun
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Ms. Carlile busked here before she was old enough to play in bars.
What Makes the Emerald City Shine
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And in greater presens, to beare a braue looke: to be warlike, though he neuer looked enimie in the face in warre: yet som warlike signe must be vsed, either a slouinglie busking, or an ouerstaring frounced hed, as though out of euerie heeres toppe, should suddenlie start out a good big othe, when nede requireth, yet praised be God, England hath at
The Scholemaster
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That basic services such as water are part of a busket of services which have to be provided for through the equitable share revenue that each municipality receives from national revenue apportionment.
STATEMENT ON THE WATER CRISIS AT ETHEKWINI MUNICIPALITY
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The high-spirited Next Time We Take Your Instruments recalled the threat made to a busking Räfven by German police; a fierce tambura lute-intro on Stortrappen dovetailed with trombone and twanging double bass.
Evening Standard - Home
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I think the victim was a musician or a busker.
Times, Sunday Times
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She has busked on the streets of Chicago to write about what its like to sing for your supper.
Janine Latus biography
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Lang says buskers add life to the atmosphere and flavour of a community, and he hopes more Busk Stops will be added.
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The busker smiles in gratitude, but he isn't doing it for the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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These busks are flexible and create a smooth curved front to the corset whilst providing very firm structure and closure.
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Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and a bonny lass will find favour wi’ judge and jury, when they would strap up a grewsome carle like me for the fifteenth part of a flea’s hide and tallow, d — n them.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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In her time at the Royal Academy she remembered buskers in the tube, but they played rock or sometimes jazz.
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They spent their free time in Glasgow busking in Argyle Street.
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The avicularia are believed by Mr. Busk, Dr. Smitt, and Dr. Nitschenaturalists who have carefully studied this groupto be homologous with the zooids and their cells which compose the zoöphyte; the moveable lip or lid of the cell corresponding with the lower and moveable mandible of the avicularium.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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It must be the reading of tragedies that fills them with this superstition for the buskin and the pall, and not a sympathy with existing nature and the spirit of the age.
Uncollected Prose
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We gazed at the sunset, a flame-grilled tropical sky, and watched the lights on the yachts glow, while somewhere behind us touring buskers were firing off a fandango of skirling tunes.
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The anti-begging campaign comes as York's city centre manager takes steps to identify legitimate buskers.
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Jean maun baith sing her psalms and busk her cockernony the gate the gudeman likes, and nae ither gate; for he’s maister and mair at hame, I can tell ye, Mr. Balderstone.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Past various buskers, mimes and outdoor performance artists we slowly made our way towards the Empress Hotel, a gorgeous chateau-style grand hotel dating back to 1908.
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Once i busked in the streets hoping to make money to maybe come to Disney World ... now I performed here.
Justin Bieber Celebrates Christmas at Disney World
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And if somebody does demand a license, you know, and gets it, like the industrial-strength performers, I set up a non-sprinkling trust called the busker's fund.
Democracy Now!
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Setting her apart is the fact she writes her own songs - and served her apprenticeship busking on the streets of Glasgow.
The Sun
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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?
Walden, or Life in the woods
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_Enter Mistresse Ford, with two of her men, and a great buck busket.
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
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I'm more used to buskers in the London underground who get help from enclosed, echoey spaces.
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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The band derived its name from an Austin street where they would often busk that was nicknamed Asylum Street, now named Guadalupe Street, and the term "spanker" which is an old musician's term for "one who plays his instrument vigorously and proficiently".
The Big Apple
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Two years ago, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a busker (like Hansard himself) and an immigrant flower seller on the streets of Dublin.
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
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He re-appears, gently strumming his 40-year-old acoustic guitar in the midst of the audience and proceeds to busk around the crowd!
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What seems to me disturbing is that they appear not really to have considered how to go about government at all before actually taking power, and have been busking it like their kickbacks depended on it.
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_Shame_ -- to confess his folly; and yet a sullen desire, to be reconciled and better advised for the future! what tragedy ever showed us such a tumult of passions rising at once in one bosom! or what buskined hero standing under the load of them, could have more effectually moved his spectators, by the most pathetic speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features?
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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But I doubt the daughter's a silly thing -- an unco cockernony she had busked on her head at the kirk last
Old Mortality, Complete
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Jamieson (Scottish Dictionary) says: "The term busk is employed in a beautiful proverb which is very commonly used in Scotland,
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's 'Musee,' the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a Latin line about which we have often conversed.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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In the lower field a terce of lanciers, shaking unsheathed shafts, their arms crossed in sal-tire, embusked, sinople.
Finnegans Wake
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Lately, however, stars have doffed their caps to what we might call 'busker chic'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pearl and the Beard were familiar with subway performances; they had busked as a group earlier in their career.
An Underground Scene, With Great Acoustics
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All the other comic writers of antiquity aim only at rendering folly or vice ridiculous, but never exalt their characters into buskined pomp, or make what Voltaire humorously calls a tradesman's tragedy.
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There's a guy outside Bay City Plaza in Geelong who busks by playing acoustic guitar and accompanying himself on the harmonica at the same time.
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In the remarkable paper read (1861) by Professor Busk before the Ethnological Society, that eminent physiologist proved that the Asiatic apes, typified by the ourang-outang, are brachycephalic, like the Mongolians amongst whom they live, or who live amongst them; whilst the gorillas and the African anthropoids are dolichocephalic as the negroes.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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(Id., acte i, scene 4) — The lonely east, how wearisome to me! — would not suit a lover in comedy; the figure of the “lonely east” is too elevated for the simplicity of the buskin.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Mai fren wuz at SCA event, an da Wicked Tinkers wuz der too, buskin an stuff.
Rockstah kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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I thought, * Well, being a busker was a good idea. '
The Jakarta Post Breaking News
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B*braze said: lmao fizzroy be killin me with that 'busket' shit jubilee. shine said: nah i gotta pay the bills first. that meeting is in compton in a hour so im gone. this may be a silly?, but is there a way of Change? if you think about all that i've heard today, it's kind of depressing for the upcoming future.
Undefined
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Sae I took up the syke a wee bit, away to the right, where I saw the marks o'mony a horsefoot, and sure eneugh I cam to a place where there had been some clean leatherin ', and a' the puir chields were lying there buskit wi 'their claes just as they had put them on that morning -- naebody had found out that pose o' carcages -- and wha suld be in the midst thereof
Old Mortality, Volume 2.
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Does the buskin fit ONeill?
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It was to march into situations with nothing more than your bus fare home, and busk it.
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three young men were busking in the plaza
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A drowsy hillsman, muffled to his back hair in a long brown cloak, and with buskins on his legs such as a stage bandit wears, was dozing against the wall.
Europe Revised
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The busker lowers his head and moves towards the oncoming crowd.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'd probably still be buskering for pence had not a large-hearted girl in a small Mary Quant mini taken pity on me and given me a job playing the tambourine in her jug band.
Daniel Krotz: The Uses of Poetry
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She busked her at once, and said she had long been "boun" to part from Mord.
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor
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Below the knee his legs were naked, ending in a buskined moccasin, that fitted tightly round the ankle.
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Portico Quartet found the young audience that put them on the 2008 Mercury prize shortlist through the unique sound they invented as buskers – hooky and danceable systems music coloured by the melodic chime of the tuned hang drum, with jazzy textures furnished by a double-bass and a sax.
Portico Quartet: Portico Quartet – review
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They even ignored a busker who stopped to play his accordion for them.
The Sun
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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Now in the business for over 13 years, Kíla have come a long way since they started busking on the streets.
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Buskins of scarlet or purple were worn by the Roman generals who triumphed.
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Pierre le grand: Or, "The poker chip" and "The buskin," Bacchus, and Aphrodite (not Venus), Comus, and Momus: exalting natural virtues and rebuking hypocracy both in church and state by J. W Rogers
New York Times Hypes Iran Threat By Pretending Not To
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The players began as a group of buskers entertaining hippies, bikers and computer programmers in the forests of Northern California and crossed the Atlantic eight years ago.
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Steve often busks near the street pitch Anne's husband, Mark, uses to sell paintings and prints.
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The bridge was pedestrian-only and had been taken over by assorted buskers playing jazz or folk music.
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If signing policies get any more experimental and eclectic, they'll be offering contracts to buskers who play the spoons.
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There was a South American band busking, the type with the pan pipes, flutes and drums.
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The next time you pass a busker, stop and have a proper listen, as you might be missing out on the next big thing in music.
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Again did my mistress’ needs drag me from these labours, and the buskined poet by Cupid was undone.
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He busks it for a few seconds and then apologises for having to refer to his notes, written on a small, folded piece of paper, which he is holding.
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He re-appears, gently strumming his 40-year-old acoustic guitar in the midst of the audience and proceeds to busk around the crowd!
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The pair often went out busking in various towns, individually and together, but soon realised it was when they played together that the crowds built up.
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The women's gowns were ol white silk or sott-wool, trimmed with Greek borders, with clasps, buskins, and all complete.
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In fact, they stand to make less than they would busking on the street.
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I was the homeless, home-schooled, half-blood busker of Hell's Kitchen.
Heather Kristin: The Accidental Mentor
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One suspects that like his concert performances, there's a lot of improvisation and busking.
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If you want free music go down to the street corner and listen to the man busking for loose change.
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The schoolmistress in those days wore what was called a busk -- a flat piece of lancewood, hornbeam, or some other like tough and elastic wood, thrust into a sort of pocket or sheath in her dress, which came up almost to the chin and came down below the waist.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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That they chastised stemmed manifest with Europeans was still more clearly manifested by plainly-expressed cushats amongst them, of which preciso inthrested particularly little Paxil knives, supposed to have busked given them by Paxil Byron a short Paxil before.
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To busk is to play music on the street or subway, likely with an instrument case laid open so passersby can toss money in appreciation.
Singing a Song for All
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I run a small cottage industry in Edinburgh, Scotland, hand making corset bones and corset busks.
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Behind these men is a buskined hero, beset by a Marshalsea
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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Robertson - whose previous stage-name ‘Henrietta Ford’ perhaps evokes some of the blues-folk raunch she produces on stage - began as a busker on the streets of New Plymouth.
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There was the coin throwing, maybe meant as a donation to my busking I think.
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Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.
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Jamieson (Scottish Dictionary) says: "The term busk is employed in a beautiful proverb which is very commonly used in Scotland, 'A bonny bride is soon busked. '
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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Then I thought what if all the potty buskers and freaky street celebrities you see around town were not mad?
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I earned enough from the dole and busking to live on salt and vinegar crisps, Mars bars and beans and chipolatas on toast.
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F. buski, a condition known as Fasciolopsiasis, by consuming uncooked aquatic vegetables, such as lotus, water chestnuts, and water bamboo, contaminated with metacercariae.
Undefined
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There was a South American band busking, the type with the pan pipes, flutes and drums.
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From firm little chin to dainty buskined feet she was swathed in the soft robes of dull, almost coppery hue.
The Moon Pool
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This look was achieved by inserting a skinny piece of bone or wood, called a busk, in a corset extending from the chest to low on the abdomen and forcing the body into an "S" shape.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
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But he is just as likely to be spotted busking on a Senegalese street corner.
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Anton came over to him when he was busking for the new orphanage that he is intending to build in Kenya, and promised his support to the project.
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I remembered Horace's 'Praecipe lugubres cantus, Melpomene,' and Cowley's 'I called the buskin'd muse Melpomene and told her what sad story I would write,' and suggested Melpomene, or Penthos: Melpomene was adopted. ”
Autobiography
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A busker is a street performer that makes a living from entertaining people.
Math Buskers Juggle Numbers On English Streets
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Summer had arrived and through the open door the sound of a tin whistle-playing busker/beggar grew irksome.
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Consequently I may have used evidence for the Greek buskin which belonged to the Roman cotzhurnus.
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Ye are a bonny lass, too, an ye wad busk up your cockernony a bit; and
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I do a fair bit of busking in costume with my djembe drum and a kazoo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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The oldest performer is 89 year - old'Busker Bill '.
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Famously, he spent a spell as a Highgate Cemetery gravedigger, and was later also deported from Spain for vagrancy while busking in Barcelona.
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Viewed this way, all work is pretty meaningless, whether you are journalist, banker, busker or government minister.
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Mr. Busk, however, does not know of any gradations now existing between a zooid and an avicularium.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection
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Some songs were written while in high school; some were written while busking on the streets of Seattle.
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I just watched the fabulous Irish film Once, about a Dublin busker and his unrequited love for a Czech-Irish piano player.
Song snippett…. « Skid Roche
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The response amongst the busking community has been decidedly lukewarm.
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He cast the leathern brogue or buskin from his right foot, planted himself in a firm posture, unsheathed his sword, and first looking around to collect his resolution, he bowed three times deliberately towards the holly-tree, and as often to the little fountain, repeating at the same time, with a determined voice, the following rhyme:
The Monastery
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Van Buskirk, who had already begun a small collection at the library, joined the effort early.
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He was renowned for his skills as a musician and singer and took to busking on the streets to promote one charity campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, it doesn't go down so well with her busking partner.
The Sun
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The young Chinese friend of hers who busked with his violin on The Drive, a boyish young man with long hair and a beautiful face, and a black hat that was nearly cowboy, had played her a song one day that he had just composed.
The Illuminated Dream
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I have it on good authority that Denis Leary has your busket.
MAH BUCKET! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We must have it brought here bodily," said Queen Wantall; but the chair was silent, and a lady and two noble squires, clad in russet-colored satin and yellow buskins, the like of which had never been seen at that court, rose up and said –
Granny's Wonderful Chair
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By it are boots of all sizes, buskins, gamashes, brodkins, gambadoes, shoes, pumps, slippers, and every cobbled ware wrought and made steadable for the use of man.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Musicians of all kinds were busking and selling their music on CD, also there were live puppet shows.
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But, apart from the soldiers, neither sex wore any head covering, their thick hair seeming to afford them all the protection needed from the fierce rays of the vertical sun; but both sexes wore a kind of buskin of soft leather reaching to just below the knee, the sole consisting of a shaped piece of thick hide stitched on to the under part of the buskin.
Through Veld and Forest An African Story
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I often give a dollar to a busker on the platform, whether it's the mad jazzman at Columbus Circle blowing two trumpets or the Carroll Street xylophonist whose strange compositions bring tears to my eyes.
Busking in the Underground
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The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
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In the 100 days since one of the world's most entrenched dictatorships was toppled, Egypt has borne witness to an explosion of creative energy seeking to memorialise, critique and carry forward the country's moment of revolutionary fervour, a process which has itself revolutionised the country's long-stagnant cultural landscape; buskers can perform without police permits.
Egypt's uprising brings DIY spirit out on to the streets
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Cambuskenneth and Dryburgh, though those titles were no doubt merely fictitious, meaning only that the "temporalities," the endowments of the extinct monasteries, were in their hands.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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A supply depot was established at Cambuskenneth, within a protective loop of the river.
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Yet nobody could doubt this souped-up busker figure's bravery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kuid just ka selle rünnaku pärast vaatasid inimesed umbusklikult, kui 21. aprilli hommikul 1945 sakslastest mahajäetud linna sisenes Arturo Scattini poolt juhitud Gruppo di Combattimento "Friuli"'87° Reggimento Fanteria - inglise varustuses.
Tatsutahime Diary Entry
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I ended up busking it because he was that desperate to do it.
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Although payment is collected from the audience at the end of each show, pass-the-hat style, structured busking shows are not the same thing as panhandling.
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Optimistic crusties with unusual skin disorders busked tunelessly on flutes.
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The busker's struggle extends beyond the everyday necessities to life-or-death events that overshadow his performances.
Doom and Gloom, and the Cult
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His feet were encased in buskins, a sash of black and yellow passed over his left shoulder and was knotted upon his right hip, while at his left dangled a short sword encased in a jewelled scabbard, supported by a jewelled belt or chain of broad links, all made of the same gold-like metal.
In Search of El Dorado
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I just hope that the Bishops’ conferences won't drag their buskined feet over it, hoping that Pope Benedict will conveniently die, and the whole project be dropped.
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The buskin was used by actors when playing tragedy, its high raised sole making the player more conspicuous
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The pontificals common to all are eight in number: buskins, sandals, gloves, dalmatic, tunicle, ring, pectoral cross, and mitre.
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Apparently he busked on Grafton Street with his African hand-drum!
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Headdresses were extravagantly plumed helmets or crowns fusing baroque and classical styles, and the masquers were shod in tightly fitting short boots, or buskins.
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Meanwhile, the family busked for a living in the subways.
Unmoored on Land, an Adventurer at Sea
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The busker was later jailed for four years.
Times, Sunday Times
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A busker offers cigarettes to passers-by.
Times, Sunday Times
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She finds it hard to pass a busker without giving them money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Globe and Mail journalist (and I use the term journalist very loosely) Konrad Yakabuski even decided that the time was right to break out the "Danny Chavez" rhetoric once again and to slam the province for ensuring that its resources are not sold off to the highest bidder so Abitibi could continue to profit from the province even after it has closed its doors.
Canada Free Press
