I used to lay in the whole subject, beginning with the sky, rapidly and broadly, and, when it was dry, returning to the foreground and finishing towards the distance; and buskin was delighted with the foreground painting, insisting on my doing nothing further to it.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
He knows perfectly well that there is a great deal of the mask and buskin on the stage of life, and that each man in his time plays many parts.
"Horace and His Influence"
Grant Showerman
Of course, the presence of the rat at once accounted for the disappearance of my half biscuit, as well as for the damaged upper leather of my buskin, which latter had been lying at the door of his milder cousin the mouse.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid