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Updated: June 13, 2025
Better than royal rank will be thine, with influence more than royal, and power of action fettered by no royalty. Royal wealth which will be really thine own, to do with it as it beseemeth thee. Thou wilt be at the top of an aristocracy in a country where aristocrats need gird themselves with no buckram.
Its chivalry was an imitation of the antiquated age of lords and ladies, and tournaments, and buckram courtesies, when men were as touchy to fight, at the lift of an eyelid or the drop of the glove, as Brian de Bois-Guilbert, and as ready for a drinking-bout as Christopher North.
How reasonable men can allow themselves to put their faith in these men of buckram, I cannot imagine. September 23rd. Firing has been going on since three o'clock this morning. The newspapers contain accounts more or less veracious respecting fights outside the forts, in which great numbers of Prussians have been killed.
Sponge shot, pulling him about, trying all his paces, and putting him at all sorts of leaps. Emboldened by the nerve and dexterity displayed by Mr. Sponge, Mr. Buckram stood meditating a further trial of his equestrian ability, as he watched him bucketing 'Ercles' about.
"Nay, understand me, friend," said the Baron; "if thou art satisfied with thy buckram gown and long staff, I also am well content thou shouldst be as poor and contemptible as is good for the health of thy body and soul All I care to know of thee is, the cause which hath brought thee to my castle, where few crows of thy kind care to settle.
'Well, let's see him, interrupted Sponge, 'and we can talk about terms after. 'Certainly, sir, certainly, replied Buckram, again letting loose a reaccumulated rush of silver down his pocket. 'Here, Tom! Joe! Harry! where's Sam? giving the little tinkler of a bell a pull as he spoke.
'I doesn't mean to say, mind ye, observed Mr. Buckram, drawing back three half-crowns, as though he had gone that much too far, 'I doesn't mean to say, mind, that he's wot you call a misteched, runaway, rear-backwards-over-hanimal but I mean to say he's a difficultish oss to ride himpetuous and one that, if he got the hupper 'and, would be werry likely to try and keep the hupper 'and you understand me? said he, eyeing Mr.
In Guzerat there is great abundance of cotton, which grows on trees six fathoms high, that last for twenty years; but after twelve years old, the cotton of these trees is not good for spinning; and is only fit for making quilts. Canhau is a great city, having plenty of frankincense, and carrying on a great trade in horses. In Cambaia is much indigo, buckram, and cotton.
"Not his; but I wear his father's likeness somewhere betwixt buckram and Flanders lace," answered Hyacinth, gaily, pulling a locket from amidst the splendours of her corsage. "I call it next my heart; but there is a stout fortification of whalebone between heart and picture. You have gloated enough on the daughter's impertinent visage.
'Ord rot it, how cold it is! continued he, blowing on his finger-ends; 'I declare my 'ands are quite numb. Well done, old brown bouts! exclaimed he, as a crash on the right attracted his attention; 'well done, old brown bouts! broke every bar i' the gate! adding, 'but I'll let Mr. Buckram know the way his beautiful horses are 'bused.
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