How To Use Buskin In A Sentence
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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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In France, tragedy was elevated on her loftiest buskin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They spent their free time in Glasgow busking in Argyle Street.
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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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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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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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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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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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(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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Does the buskin fit ONeill?
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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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Below the knee his legs were naked, ending in a buskined moccasin, that fitted tightly round the ankle.
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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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There was a South American band busking, the type with the pan pipes, flutes and drums.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Consequently I may have used evidence for the Greek buskin which belonged to the Roman cotzhurnus.
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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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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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Some songs were written while in high school; some were written while busking on the streets of Seattle.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Over subsequent days I buttonholed musicians in precincts and plazas in an attempt to discover if the busking community as a whole was, like indigent Eddie, experiencing lean times.
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Three months ago he was unemployed, busking on the mean streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh to scrape together a living.
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Zeus break forth in dancing, beating with buskined foot on heaven's bright floor; for now hath she worked her heart's desire in utterly confounding the chiefest of Hellas 'sons.
Heracles
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My music is a Cannon, a pitched field my stage, Furies the actors, blood and vengeance the scene, death the story, a sword imbrued with blood, the pen that writes, and the poet a terrible buskined < 17 > tragical fellow, with a wreath about his head of burning match instead of bays.
The Noble Spanish Soldier
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Sadly, it doesn't go down so well with her busking partner.
The Sun
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I have sung it in schools, at conferences, even busking.
