So long as he does not insist on my saying a "bumper state" when I mean a "buffer state," I see no reason whatever for any rupture of that sympathy which ought to subsist between two men who take a common interest and pride in the subject of his treatise-Our Common Speech.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
She sketches out a letter to be written to the lady who is at present a buffer-state between the dried man and the parched women.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
"Sir Brian de Quorn-sometimes called the buffer, as nothing made any impression on him.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay