How To Use Buckle In A Sentence

  • It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.
  • In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
  • A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
  • He buckled them into place with a strap that dented my forehead, and gave me a wire to bite. Times, Sunday Times
  • He reached to his waist and undid the belt buckle as he was talking to the corpsman.
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  • When she reached down to unbuckle her tool belt, she stopped: the gun. FOLLY
  • A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
  • She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
  • Yet he never buckled, never once cracked and instead showed a strength of character that even I, his friend for years, didn't know he possessed.
  • I didn't grow much until I was about fourteen by which time it was still functioning as a mini gaberdine raincoat as per the fashion and with the belt buckled around the back as you did. Harbingers
  • He unbuckled his leather belt.
  • In some cases a scleral buckle, a tiny synthetic band, is attached to the outside of the eyeball to gently push the wall of the eye against the detached retina.
  • But there is something very romantic about the notion of the pirate that remains to this day: The skill of two swashbucklers battling on the deck of a ship, the hunt for buried treasure and the thrill of lawlessness.
  • This turnbuckle fastens to the chainplate with a jaw fitting and pin, and is swaged to the wire rope stay.
  • Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.
  • But these were difficult times and a lesser man would have buckled under the strain.
  • Some have been there for so many hundreds of years that they have buckled with the shifting of the earth and the passage of time.
  • Many a pleasant evening the two spent there, talking of locomotive planished iron, wire nails, and turnbuckles, and the late lunch Miss Monon served beat the system's regular buffet service a city block. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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  • He pushed himself between her legs and unbuckled his belt, unzipped his pants. Second Chance
  • This mass of towering, buckled stone and fluted snow is the most unaccommodating zone on Earth, and the painter, in his own words, is ‘not trying to force an egotistical or mystical image upon it’.
  • Likewise ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ to distinguish from the other films in which Errol Flynn buckled swashes and stuff.
  • When I tipped my head back, I saw the hawk buckle its wings and plummet behind the trees.
  • And, in fact, the buckles on his wedding shoes for the day of his marriage were worth two million pounds or so, $3 million by today's standards.
  • In the eyes of this mall's planners, a typical Mexican family consists of: a man dressed in full charro gear (hat, tight trousers, matching bolero jacket and a huge belt buckle;) a woman in a maid-style apron (check out her mandil) who is probably someone's maid, and a preppy kid in shorts and cardigan who probably goes to school in the "right side" of the border and wants nothing to do with the other two. Mi blog es tu blog
  • Dating from the late ninth century AD, the hoard includes silver coins, fragments of two swords, weights, a belt buckle, strap ends as well as the boat nails.
  • The steel frames began to buckle under the strain.
  • The vehicles buckle and crash beneath his feet, which is supposed to be an awesome display of his destructive power.
  • Buckles will be awarded to the winners of all futurities.
  • Learning to fence was the consummation of a love affair I'd had with swordplay ever since Errol Flynn first swashbuckled his way across my late-night TV screen as Captain Blood.
  • Personal ornaments - strap-ends, buckles, brooches, jewellery and the like - suggest that what was true for the lordly classes was true also for the populace as a whole.
  • Inmates at Buckley Hall Prison have to run a gauntlet of insults and racism from some members of staff.
  • And the belt buckle for every word wrong.
  • The Seat, you feel, could cope as well with a buckled road across a midlands bog as with the broken surfaces in towns and cities.
  • He stopped, unbuckled it, and hefted it in his hands.
  • Sport imbues the ephemeral and the silly and the transitory with great gravity, and it's a kind of consolation in a world that buckles beneath meaning and import and significance.
  • This is what we call niche brand building," said the handsome Mr. Lannung, who was dressed in a suit by Buckler, a company that sponsored his evening out. Social Networks for Models
  • I asked her to imagine beginning with a bridge of solid steel, strong enough so that it wouldn't buckle and collapse as cars drove over it.
  • UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I ` m standing in the north bend, and there ` s a piece that ` s about a third of the way south that kind of buckles, and that ` s preventing the view into the water from the north end. CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007
  • But it was only when her metal wheelchair buckled under her size 32 frame that she knew she had to trim her body. The Sun
  • The best-known cause of contact dermatitis is poison ivy, but there are many others, including chemicals found in laundry detergent, cosmetics, and perfumes, and metals like the nickel plating on a belt buckle.
  • I most let it drop offen the saddle as I jogged along, only I'm a sensitive kind of cupid and the buckle of the bag hit that place on my knee I got sleep-walking last week while Rose of Old Harpeth
  • Moreover, as a Jew living in a town that declared itself the buckle of the Bible Belt (Memphis boasted more churches than gas stations), I was always aware of my outsider status.
  • Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.
  • He then cited Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan as the "moorings" of the GOP. Keep the Change
  • Good Italian leather belts with simple buckles are now found in many stores.
  • The Men were outside his cage trying to open it but failing because the branch had buckled it.
  • When the evidence was too clearly against Buckley, he would again revert to sexual innuendo, attacks on Myra, and finally Bobby Kennedy. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • Fair-gui-deen nor Fair-guid-day; but when she buckled to, she had a tongue to deave the miller. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
  • The driver was quite apologetic, and my bike wasn't damaged (didn't even buckle the wheel), so I'm chalking it up to experience.
  • Above that is my small case-bound sketch-book complete with elastic band to hold it shut against the water-buckled pages that are eternally anxious to escape.
  • The net closely but buckle not forever.
  • Two clicks could be heard from the back seat as the girls buckled up.
  • Instead, distract your child's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top.
  • An unfinished lead buckle suggests some metalworking was taking place at the site, and there are also crucibles.
  • And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
  • We say, go wild with leopard print, buckled boots and the jumper. Times, Sunday Times
  • We parbuckled him out by means of the Alpine rope, which was quickly detached from the sledge, South with Scott
  • The penannular ring, inserted through a hole at the head of the long pin, could be partially turned when the pin had been thrust through the material in such a way that the brooch became in effect a buckle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • A true swashbuckler like this only comes along once every hundred years.
  • Thomas aimed a kick and some punches at the victim before Buckley struck a single blow at the man.
  • On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
  • The roads were teeth-rattlingly bad and the BMW buckled a front wheel.
  • Turnbuckles and chainplates must be angled so that loads are in a direct line with stays and shrouds.
  • Not even bothering with the numerous buckles, Neva pulled a knife from her pocket and began slitting the leather bindings holding Roy to the gurney.
  • Bruce wrote and sang all of Cream's toughest material - White Room, Sunshine Of Your Love - with a voice as angelically strung-out as Jeff Buckley and as gutbucket dirty as a 100 year-old-blues preacher.
  • Kerry motorists have been warned to buckle up or face the consequences as the penalty points system has been extended to cover the non-wearing of seat belts since Monday.
  • He's wearing the right gear, too: a dark blue jacket, a black T - shirt, pin-striped trousers and patent leather shoes with shiny silver buckles.
  • He sat up, and she knelt beside him on the bed, laughing and trying to help unbuckle and unstrap his uniform.
  • They have watched the coal industry buckle and the collieries close. Times, Sunday Times
  • New for 2003 is style 556, the Fahrenheit structured mid-profile brushed cotton 6-panel cap with soft buckram and a fabric back strap and brass buckle.
  • Surveys conducted earlier this year indicated that many motorists just ‘forgot’ to buckle up after stopping for a short time, in car parks, at waste drop off centres and even at fast food outlets.
  • In lieu of buckles at his knees, he wore unequal loops of packthread; and in his grimy hands he held a knotted stick, the knob of which was carved into a rough likeness of his own vile face. Barnaby Rudge
  • Pat got into the car, buckled the seat belt, folded her arms tight to her chest.
  • Yes, once again, it was the same Ian Judge staging, an animated, fluent show that mixes up 18th-century period niceties and '50s culture - a tippling Countess languishes on her bed dialing a big, clunky, corded phone, the men at times wear britches and stockings with their buckled clodhoppers, later choosing modern-day suits. Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
  • Universal machine, fiber machine, wood ma-chine, packing machine, handing machine, forced fan, grinder, buckled plate printing-ma-chine, dyer, itemize machine......
  • Now the windows were covered with plywood and the sidewalk buckled in front.
  • She buckled her seat belt and opened the window to look out on Newark at night.
  • Let us keep our fingers crossed and hope that the tide that is swirling about the buckled patent leather pumps of Mr. Speaker sweeps him and her away down the Thames like so much noxious mephitic effluent. They Cannot Send All Of Us To The Gulag
  • During a new dig, he has now discovered a rare Viking buckle with a ‘wonderful runic design’ dating back to the 10th century.
  • In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic.
  • But becoming a passive minority shareholder in a larger, unquoted regional entity, with an option to exit at a later date, carried no appeal for Michael Buckley.
  • A poundage is how buckle ah, can illustrate?
  • His belt buckle was digging into the soft skin of her stomach and she moved agitatedly, unconsciously provocative.
  • When they died in late 2007 and 2008, Buckles became the last so-called doughboy - and a soft-spoken celebrity. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Over his shoulders, clasped at the neck with a large gold-and-precious-stone buckle of the same mysterious form as the hieroglyphic crest at the head of the Programs, he wore a wonderful burnouse of white and gold fleece, the gold predominating over the white, and flashing fiercely, gorgeously in the sun. The Mark of the Beast
  • It is not for Mr. Buckley to admit to an inattentive memory and careless writing when the polysyllabic evasion of "antonomasia" is available. Happy Days Are Here Again
  • Putting a brave face on it, I picked myself up, brushed myself down and carried on to school, buckled front wheel wobbling like a clown's car.
  • Standing up, he unbuckled his belt, and spread it laden across his waist.
  • Pregnant Jordana Buckley and her mum Lorraine today paid tribute to a cool-headed fire control operator who talked them to safety knowing they were minutes from disaster.
  • Overlooked was Buckley's proposal of the binomial T. texanum, now considered a variety of T. pusillum.
  • Though Buckley is hardly a logician, he is – at his level – a kind of syllogist, and this is what I think, he is trying to say: If liberals think faggotry okay and I call one of them a faggot, why is that wrong in their eyes since there is nothing wrong in being one? R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • ‘Someone,’ she jested, playing with her buckles on her leather jacket, ‘who knows you well.’
  • The son was trying to keep things positive, but after a month in the hospital, his father buckled under the stress and returned home.
  • The sun was yet so pale a buckler of silver through the still white mists that not a cord or timber cast a shadow; and only Abel Keeling's face and hands were black, carked and cinder-black from exposure to his pitiless rays. Widdershins
  • She looked at Alistra, and unbuckled her safety belt, containing a water flask, some rations (in case they got lost), and her weapons.
  • My stomach did an amazing feat of acrobatics and my knees buckled under me.
  • Railings around the foredeck had been buckled and the deck plating of the tip of the foredeck had been buckled.
  • As Leslie admitted yesterday, he had even contemplated suicide as he buckled under the weight of the pressure.
  • Inexcusably perhaps, the entire vital element of seizures, grappling, disarms, and use of the second hand or even daggers and bucklers is almost wholly ignored as if it never existed.
  • Some Buckle goes because he is too low in the weights. The Sun
  • We don't buckle under pressure, we just get stronger.
  • 'I've been looking at your men handling that gun, and my opinion is, that if you gets a butt, crams in a carronade, well woulded up, and fill it with old junk and rope yarns, you might parbuckle it up to the very top.' Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
  • After figuring out how all the doohickeys (the buckles are a bit unusual but they function fine), latches, and what-not worked on these boots I was off for a tour. - The Backcountry Skiing Blog
  • They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
  • Does the amp respond or does it buckle under the strain?
  • The roof of the fuselage at the rear was buckled and charred by fire. Times, Sunday Times
  • My belt buckle was covered with green tape.
  • Instead, the film buckles under the weight of its subject matter and resorts to a blur of fraught chases, narrow scrapes and miraculous reprieves.
  • Perhaps most irritating of all was the nagging seat-belt warning that persisted for an annoying extra few beeps even after you had buckled up.
  • The students first asked for monetary compensation of the month's rent after a leak from the washing machine buckled the floorboards, making them feel unsafe about living in the flat.
  • Since New Hampshire Bush's campaign has swayed and buckled like a boxer who has been hit with a perfect left hook.
  • While the country expects, our pallid hero will buckle under the weight, following in the footsteps of a long line of unlucky losers.
  • Without preconditioning, most historians, I wager, would buckle under the strain.
  • They have buckled under pressure before and could prove vulnerable again. The Sun
  • Mcanally's knees buckled and he crumpled down onto the floor.
  • I need, not just want, some new boots with tougher zips and buckles than the last pair, which will last through the coming year and the afore-mentioned snow.
  • With an elocutionary erudition surpassing that of his friendly rival, conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr., Moynihan held forth with a staccato bravado -- that sometimes bordered on the comical -- punctuated by pregnant pauses, the result of a speech impediment and not, as Moynihan's political opponents sometimes suggested, a drinking problem. Michael Sigman: Pat Moynihan's Letters Illuminate an Extraordinary Life
  • Jack began to unbuckle his belt and pull his shirt over his head.
  • His films were parodies of other films done once too often - the swashbuckler, the western, the spy thriller.
  • The two men had reached an amicable agreement that Buckles would not continue for another four or five years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Buckley's novel, by contrast, is embarrassingly superficial.
  • Some buckled beneath the assertion that Greene was the greatest anyway.
  • Large generators can overcharge batteries, ultimately destroying them as the electrolyte boils away and the plates heat up and buckle.
  • The person I mean was a buxom dame of about thirty, her fingers loaded with many a silver ring, and three or four of gold; her ankles liberally displayed from under her numerous blue, white, and scarlet; short petticoats, and attired in hose of the finest and whitest lamb's-wool, which arose from shoes of Spanish cordwain, fastened with silver buckles. Redgauntlet
  • I always buckled my safety belt and drove below the speed limit, stopping for school buses, pulling over for sirens.
  • Though intelligent and readable, it is dramatically inert and buckles under the weight of its own themes. Times, Sunday Times
  • He climbs up the turnbuckles and salutes his loyal Blackburn fans who cheer wildly.
  • None of her propeller shafts could be turned, and the port rudder was hopelessly buckled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is this the protection of civilians? said local resident Rajab Sharaf, standing outside the burning building as the cinderblock walls buckled outward from the heat. Libyan government shows reporters NATO bomb sites
  • The belt and buckle with the aiguillette are still in the original round, black leatherette-faced cardboard container.
  • The little metal buckle on the elastic has the word 'Maitreya' inscripted in Pali (an ancient Eastern language where the word Maitreya was originated) Fashion World of SL
  • She buckled a stiff hard belt around Alexandra's waist and stood back to admire the effect.
  • The President asked that it be CIA agent Buckley, but Buckley had by then been tortured to death.
  • While Kurosawa is known mostly for his historically accurate, minutely observed period pieces and swashbucklers, Ozu sought drama in the simple rhythms of life in the modern Japanese family.
  • Mr. Buckley is there in San Francisco when, at a prenomination rally, thousands of college students declare opposition to their professors '"intensive indoctrination in state welfarism, anti-anti-Communism, moral libertinage, skepticism, anti-Americanism. Principled and Pilloried
  • A soldier tried to shove a bayonet into his throat, but the steel buckled against his adam's apple superconductor.
  • The neck was dressed with a layer of four or five three-cornered cravats, artistically laid, and surmounted with a cambrick stock, pleated and buckled behind. Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians
  • The range includes silver Puffa jackets, plastic buckle wrap-around skirts, luminous vest tops and fleece trousers.
  • Buckley and chairman Dermot Gleeson did not shy from apologising in the fullest yesterday.
  • Unbuckle that belt - no wait, forget the belt, elasticate! Times, Sunday Times
  • Nilly hurriedly buttoned all the shiny buttons on the uniform, buckled the belt with the shiny saber that only just barely dragged on the ground, and grabbed the strange, three-cornered hat that was sitting on the seat of the chair. Bubble in the Bathtub
  • She buckled the girth quickly and retrieved her bridle.
  • Clothes that pull, sag, buckle or droop add pounds, so when trying out something, dance and twirl around the dressing room.
  • Shaking my head, I buckled my seat belt as the cheery voice of the stewardess announced out arrival.
  • The door was beginning to buckle from the intense heat.
  • Though he stayed upright, his back wheel had been buckled and would no longer revolve through the frame. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Flex-Strap closure is on all new 2004 styles that have a plastic buckle.
  • Her knees buckled under her and I caught her before she fell face down.
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  • And those buckles and studs nod at the current vogue for rock chic while being subdued enough for the school run. Times, Sunday Times
  • My belt is loose; I didn't buckle it up tightly enough.
  • He points to a large display of belts, buckles and harnesses for mountaineering and rock climbing. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I get in the race car, I buckle my belts the same way every time, I put my helmet on the same way.
  • Various men in particolored togas stood far back, some clad in laena and apex, shoes without laces or buckles. Antony and Cleopatra
  • Colum whirled round, his hand going to his knife, the other wrapping his thick woollen cloak shield, or buckler, round his arm. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • And in January the company caused traffic chaos for almost a week when a one of their pipes burst and buckled a 100 ft stretch of the Great Western Way.
  • Wyoming is one of the last holdouts on public antismoking laws, and smoking is as much a part of the culture as license-plate-sized belt buckles. Miles to Go
  • The four pages were in the tilt yard, where there stood a wooden figure, called a "quintain," which turned round upon an axis, and held a wooden sword in one hand and a buckler in the other. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
  • “Doubt not me, Catherine,” replied the Queen; “a while since I was overborne, but I have recalled the spirit of my earlier and more sprightly days, when I used to accompany my armed nobles, and wish to be myself a man, to know what life it was to be in the fields with sword and buckler, jack, and knapscap.” The Abbot
  • Legs, heart and lungs often fail to keep pace with the rapid body growth, so that legs buckle under the strain of supporting an over-developed body.
  • When a mechanic came out he found that one wheel had buckled and another was damaged. Times, Sunday Times
  • The slipper was a pretty one, made of pink plush with a dainty heel and a shining buckle set in a small pink bow. A Little Girl in Old Boston
  • And now that Tim Pawlenty is jumping in the race, the appeal of the 2012 GOP field is plummeting faster than Randy Savage from the top turnbuckle rest in peace, Macho Man. HUFFPOST HILL - Jon Huntsman Latest Addition To Team Individual Mandate
  • The jet stream has been buckled to run north and south of it, allowing the high pressure area to persist. Times, Sunday Times
  • While Buckley calmly declares Hefner's out to "annul" the moral code, Hefner attempts to claim he was not rejecting or attacking monogamy, which is quite simply lying. The Patriot Post
  • 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
  • The hay was belt-buckle high when rain let up, three days' sun baked stalks dry, and by midday all but the far pasture was mowed and raked into windrows.
  • The shock buckled the wheel of my bicycle.
  • She could barely see the king for the blaze of diamonds on his buckles and buttons and hat crocket. THE DIAMOND
  • He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent. CHAPTER XI
  • The courier and the young banker carried loaded revolvers, and Muscari (with much boyish gratification) buckled on a kind of cutlass under his black cloak. The Wisdom of Father Brown
  • On television this sort of thing is enormously effective in demoralizing the innocent and well-mannered who, acting in good faith, do not lie or make personal insults, Buckley has made many honorable men look dishonest fools by his demagoguery, and by the time they recover from his first assault and are ready to retaliate, the program is over. R_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism"
  • It pulls the cable and snugs down the cuff of the boot as if you were operating a separate buckle.
  • You really see him buckle under pressure. The Sun
  • In a section called upperworks, a term unfamiliar to me, a chock is called a fairlead, the function of a hank is not clear, nor is that of a turnbuckle, and what we on the East Coast call a jam cleat is identified as a "clam cleat. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
  • What tends strongly to confirm this view, that the buckler was the model for the coin, is the fact that for a long time Macedonian coins were finished upon the obverse, in imitation of the national shield. The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
  • Also included on the disc is a trailer for Ivanhoe, as well trailers for two other swashbucklers from the same period, Knights of the Round Table and Scaramouche.
  • He dreamt that he was a brave and noble swashbuckler, swinging from chandelier to chandelier as he dueled with his foes.
  • KALISH: Buckley used a computer-controlled milling machine known as a shopbot to make precise cuts in a piece of bamboo plywood, but he didn't get the results he wanted. A Space For DIY People To Do Their Business
  • I had risen early, and though I had made an unusually careful toilet, calling Yorke to my aid to see that every lacer was fresh and securely tied, and my buckles shining, yet I had made much haste also, not knowing at what hour mademoiselle proposed starting, and fearing greatly to annoy her by being one moment tardy. The Rose of Old St. Louis
  • Adam looked at the Marshall through narrowed eyes as he buckled on his gun belt.
  • There is only one end to an explosion in debt - an explosion in misery as families buckle under the weight of repayments.
  • Their steeds, caparisoned with silk, lacquered leather and gold buckles, caracoled and curvetted as their riders put them through their paces. The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
  • It is also superior to the whole grain buckle I made, although that is not surprising as this is far more decadent and less virtuous! Archive 2008-07-01
  • Ultimately, it is the fencing, the swordplay in the swashbuckler movie, that catches our attention.
  • We buckled our seatbelts and waited while the stewardess briefed us on the safety procedures.
  • Many are following the late William F. Buckley's famous dictum that he's "for the most conservative candidate who can be elected. What Iowa Says About the Religious Right
  • The faults requiring remedy were, firstly, the upper cross stays, which buckled in flight owing to insufficient strength for the length of the hull; secondly, the gasbags were not sufficiently gastight and, thirdly, the power of the engines were not sufficient for such a heavy ship. British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
  • Its area therefore increases and, having nowhere else to go, it has little choice but to buckle or invaginate. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • Eventually he joins the buccaneer William Dampier and they swashbuckle around the Pacific.
  • How about some buckled motorcycle boots and a heavy-duty satchel to match? Times, Sunday Times
  • The problem is, the car door is often buckled and wedged shut by the crash.
  • Reading William F. Buckley's piece "Aweigh" (July/August Atlantic) reminded me that before my books started getting published, I supported my writing addiction by refinishing brightwork on yachts. When George Meets John
  • The girl wore a wide rimmed black hat full with dark lace, a black gabardine and she stood on the toes of her shinny black buckle shoes to place the rose.
  • Some Buckle goes because he is too low in the weights. The Sun
  • Smoke poured from the undercarriage when a wheel buckled and the the aircraft veered on to grass before halting. The Sun
  • The mastheads were delicately carved with figures and trees, the sails were plain white that buckled and flapped in the winds like swans about to fly.
  • However Mr Buckley argued that birds could be injured elsewhere and end up in Basildon.
  • A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.

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