Brave and unflinching, though almost stunned, she raised her white blood-stained face for him to strike again each time that he buffed it from him.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
This wire edge is reduced to a minimum by the oilstone, and is then so fine that it is practically of but little account; to remove it, however, the plane blade or iron may be buffed backwards and forwards on the palm of the hand.
"Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II"
Joshua Rose
A gloomy wanness spoiled her rosy cheek, And doubts hung there it was not mine to seek; She neer so much as mentioned things to come, But sighed oer pleasures ere she left her home; And now and then a mournful smile would raise At freaks repeated of our younger days, Which I brought up, while passing spots of ground Where we, when children, "hurly-burlied" round, Or "blindman-buffed" some morts of hours away- Two games, poor thing, Jane dearly loved to play.
"Poems Chiefly From Manuscript"
John Clare