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Example sentences for "busk"

Lexicographically close words:
businesse; businesses; businesslike; businessman; businessmen; busked; buskin; buskined; busking; buskins
  1. Busk you thitherward, my dear Master Anon, and wend with me!

  2. Up then started good ROBIN, As a man that had been wood; "Busk you, my merry young men, For Him that died on a rood!

  3. Busk you, my merry young men, Ye shall go with me!

  4. Come, busk ye, my merry men, and get the feast ready.

  5. Come, busk ye, lads," and he turned quickly away.

  6. Now busk thee, good Stutely, and choose thee six men, and get thee gone to Fosse Way or thereabouts, and see that thou bringest someone to eat with us this evening.

  7. The address had flashed upon me before I thought of any thing, and while Mrs. Busk held it up to me.

  8. Mrs. Busk considered not the sun, neither any of his doings.

  9. Now when Mrs. Busk came to see what I had done, or rather left undone, she flew into a towering passion, until she had no time to go on with it.

  10. For now I had made up my mind to let Mrs. Busk know whatever I could tell her.

  11. Men and women seem alike to love to have their counsels taken; and the equinox being now gone by, Mrs. Busk was ready to begin before the tardy sun was up, who begins to give you short measure at once when he finds the weights go against him.

  12. And Mrs. Busk often lamented, without much real mortification, that she had not been "born sympathetic.

  13. Mrs. Busk was delighted at her departure, for she never had liked to be criticised so keenly while she was doing her very best.

  14. For Mrs. Busk had not the art of rousing people and cheering them, such as Betsy Strouss, my old nurse, had, perhaps from her knowledge of the nursery.

  15. And of all these desultory thoughts it came that I packed up that odious but very lovely locket, without further attempt to unriddle it, and persuaded my very good and clever Mrs. Busk to let me start right early.

  16. Immediately it fell back into the powerful and carefully built line of defenses in front of Lemberg, extending over a front of seventy or eighty miles, from the vicinity of Busk on the north to Halicz on the Dniester, on the south.

  17. Every town celebrated its busk at a period independent from that of the other towns, whenever their crops had come to maturity.

  18. It appears from all that the busk is not a solstitial celebration, but a rejoicing over the first fruits of the year.

  19. On the first days of the busk females were not permitted to enter the area of the square, nor were they admitted to the council-house whenever the men were sitting in council or attending to the conjurer's performances.

  20. And when the fresh knights they were made, To battle they busk them boun; James Douglas went before, And he thought to have won him shoon.

  21. Busk and bowne, my mery men all, Even and go ye with me; For I drem'd that my hall was on fyre, My lady slayne or day.

  22. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays.

  23. Ben and cam her brethren dear, Saying, Wha will busk our bride?

  24. Fair Janet was nae weel lichter, Nor weel doun on her side, Till ben and cam her father dear, Saying, Wha will busk our bride?

  25. But busk you, O busk, my merry men all, Sae merrily busk and boune, For blaw the wind where eer it will, Our gude ship sails the morn.

  26. O ye maun busk this bonny bride, And put a gay mantle on; For she shall wed this auld French lord, Gin she should die the morn.

  27. Willie he was scarce awa, And the lady put to bed, Whan in and came her father dear: 'Make haste, and busk the bride.

  28. She was na scarcely brought to bed, Nor yet laid on her side, Till in and cam her father there, Crying, Fy, gae busk the bride.

  29. He said, Busk on you, fair ladye, The white flowers and the red; For I would give my bonnie ship To get your maidenhead.

  30. How can I busk a bonny bonny bride, How can I busk a winsome marrow, How lue him on the banks of Tweed, That slew my love on the Braes of Yarrow?

  31. Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny bonny bride, And think nae mair on the Braes of Yarrow.

  32. The average amount in the cases of Becquerel and Rodier and Busk was 8.

  33. Both Busk and Falconer remonstrated against the passage to him, and I hope it will be withdrawn when the address is printed.

  34. In conjunction with my friend Busk I am translating a great German book on the "Microscopical Anatomy of Man," and I have engaged to write a long article for Todd's "Cyclopaedia.

  35. Llanberis with Busk between Christmas Day and New Year's Day and get my lungs full of hill-air for the coming session.

  36. The evening before last I heard from Busk that your father-in-law had been ill, and that you had been to see him, and I meant to have written to you yesterday to inquire, but it was driven out of my head by people coming here.

  37. In the scientific world he soon made acquaintance with most of the leading men, and began a close friendship with Edward Forbes, with George Busk (then surgeon to H.

  38. I returned from a ramble about Snowdon with Busk and Tyndall on the 31st, all the better.

  39. O wherefore need I busk my head, Or wherefore need I kame my hair, Sin my fause luve has me forsook, And sys, he'll never luve me mair.

  40. Busk ye, bown ye, my merry men all, For John shall go with me; For I’ll go seek yond wight yeomen In greenwood where they be.

  41. Busk and boun, my merry men all, Even and go ye with me, For I dreamed that my hall was on fire My lady slain or day.

  42. The kings bowmen busk them blithe, And the queen's archers also, So did these three wight yeomen, With them they thought to go.

  43. Willie he was scarce awa, And the lady put to bed, When in and came her father dear: "Make haste, and busk the bride.

  44. Haste, lad, rise and busk thee in silence, but make as good speed as ever thou canst Roger, see he turneth not back to sleep.

  45. Wake thy sister, and arise both, and busk [dress] you quickly.

  46. If it could be proved that 'Tirol' was the invariable local and German spelling, as Miss Busk seems to fancy it is, there would at least be a good argument for changing our present practice.

  47. Miss Busk derived her information from another pamphlet of Cave Rosa, which I have not seen.

  48. Then a steel rod with a semi-circle, which went under my chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays.

  49. Mr. Busk informs me that a precisely similar breccia is found at Gibraltar at approximately the same level.

  50. At Pen-y-Gwrid Busk halted, purposing to descend to Llanberis by the road, while Huxley and I went forward to the small public-house known as Pen Pass.

  51. The Apes' Hill, on the African side of the strait, Mr. Busk informs me has undergone similar disturbances.

  52. In this essay Mr. Busk refers to the previous labours of Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill, to whom we owe most of our knowledge of the geology of the rock.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "busk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.