Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckshees
Literary usage of Buckshees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"A buckshees, or present, is as acceptable to the former as to the latter, if made
with suitable regard to rank. There is a charm in that word which ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... to beg for buckshees/i, and if they have gone steadily.-and have not jolted
you by getting out of step, you give them a four-anna piece to be divided ..."
3. Shores of the Mediterranean: With Sketches of Travel by Francis Schroeder (1846)
"On this first occasion we spent about three hours and a half, and finally took
leave of the turbaned doorkeepers with buckshees/i of a couple of dollars, ..."
4. The Life and Correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B: Late by John William Kaye (1856)
"... or dispose in any manner whatever, of any description of property which may
have been presented to him by his buckshees as having been taken by them, ..."
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