He sits and reads the paper, and is presently going down to the bank of which he is a director, and of which he seems always to those grandchildren to smell, so tenacious is the peculiar odor of a bank; that is the very gentleman who in the temple of the Drama upon this spot used to lead the loud applause, and at whom in his Buckish costume of those merry days and nights, the lovely Shirreff herself used to level her eyes and her voice as she trilled: "Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad."
"From the Easy Chair, series 3"
George William Curtis
I've made him as neat as a new pin this morning, and he says the Bishop will think him too Buckish by half.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot
Every one wears the straight, high-crowned silk hat that went out with us years ago, and the cut of clothing of even the most Buckish young fellows is behind the times.
"Saunterings"
Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009