EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Cf. Il Penseroso, 102: "the buskin'd stage;" that is, the tragic stage.
In that early epoch of our literature the sock and buskin had indeed been worn by a reckless race.
But now I hope to do easily much more of the kind, and that our new Irish players will find the buskin and the sock.
Here there were only two rooms, one for Buskin, the maid-servant, and the other unfurnished.
There is one point of resemblance between the hero of the sock and buskin and the Knight of the quill.
Mr Buskin shrugged his shoulders, and replied he was sure he hoped so.
Their correspondence was subsequently reprinted in a pamphlet entitled "Sock and Buskin."
In comparison with Carlyle, Buskin, and Newman, he is worldly.
"It's Mr Buskin the actor," panted Austin breathlessly, as he began to recover himself.
It is not a theatrical artifice of mask or buskin, to impose upon us unreal impressions of height and dignity.