Synonyms
Examples for "buck"
Examples for "buck"
1
A small number of stocks managed to buck the downward trend however.
2
Buying property is no longer a sure way to make a buck.
3
The buck ran into the thicket; but the doe eyed him curiously.
4
It's an easy mistake thinking it's just speculators, making a quick buck.
5
The public relations firms and spin doctors who've made a quick buck?
1
The trestle-board is, then, the symbol of the natural and moral law.
2
The voice drifted from far away in the darkness on the trestle.
3
A piece of the trestle fell and killed two of the men.
4
They had come to the end of the trestle over the river.
5
The skeleton work of the trestle now rose more clearly into view.
1
There was a crowd pressed against the police tape and sawhorse barriers.
2
He took me by the shoulders and led me to a sawhorse.
3
For some time he had been riding the saddle on a sawhorse.
4
That part of the world is on the other side of this sawhorse.
5
He insisted on the caller taking that chair; Mern sat on a carpenter's sawhorse.
1
They ruined an uncommon good old cross-cut saw for me, and broke the saw-buck, too, but I let it pass.
2
They consisted of a sort of saw-buck with a small mattress on it, and this furniture covered about half the donkey.
3
Say, I felt so much like two cords of four-foot stove wood that it made me plumb nervous to ketch sight of a saw-buck.
4
"No, sir," the boy answered, resting on the saw-buck.
5
"Go after it, you weatherbeaten old saw-buck," he yelled, just to make the play strong, before he was fairly in the saddle.
1
He sat on a saw-horse and split open his pouch of pipe tobacco.
2
It was laid on supports or trestles, shaped usually something like a saw-horse.
3
He is also like a war- horse; or, it is suggested, like a saw-horse.
4
Sawing may be done either on a saw-horse, Fig.
5
So he began by sprinkling some of the magic Powder of Life from the pepper-box upon the body of the saw-horse.
6
He had found an old pair of reins and tied them to a saw-horse, that he switched and "Gee-up"-ed vigorously.
7
After the frame is wired place each end on a saw-horse so as to lift the entire frame clear of the work-shop floor.
8
Immediately the saw-horse moved, stretched its legs, yawned with its chopped-out mouth, and shook a few grains of the powder off its back.
9
Devise some method, suggest some course of treatment, whereby my tried and trusty horse Pleurisy will cease to look so much like a saw-horse.
10
A daily dose of the saw-horse or wash-tub isn't bad for weak lungs and bodies, or for strong ones who wish to continue thus.
11
The Saw-Horse stepped into a rabbit hole and fell to the ground.
12
She felt that Jim would know more about the Saw-Horse later on.
13
The Saw-Horse has broken a leg, so he can't bend his steps.
14
The wet clothing he hung over the body of the Saw-Horse.
15
A live Saw-Horse is a distinct novelty, and should prove an interesting study.
16
But he managed to lean forward and shout in the ear of the Saw-Horse: