Lexicographical Neighbors of Buists
Literary usage of Buists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"... of sucker-almonds, twa dozen buists of confections, and ane chalder of coals.'
The king informed the council of Aberdeen in a letter, June 1596, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... have been buists' "Rose Manual," Philadelphia, 1844, although u sentimental
book on the "Queen of Flowers" had appeared in the same city in 1841. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"... And loud out-buists of fun were heard behind; All eyes were turned to mark
from whence it came, Known in the slate— MEG MUNSON was her name. ..."
4. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1895)
"... easily identified “the Shakespere boy” (a descendant of Shakespere's sister)
by his likeness to the portraits and buists of the poet. ..."
Other Resources:
