10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERBUFF»
Discover the use of
counterbuff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
counterbuff and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works
Epilogue Adult Males camlet (284 lines): Surveyor young cressingham (276 lines
): Surveyor; Fleshhook, or Counterbuff knavesbe (256 lines): Surveyor;
Fleshhook, or Counterbuff george (238 lines): Surveyor; Fleshhook, or
Counterbuff ...
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A chaste maid in Cheapside. The Spanish gipsy, by Middleton ...
A Street. Enter SWEETBALL, FLESH-HOOK, and CoUNTERBUFF. SWEET. Now,
Flesh-hook, use thy talon, set upon his right shoulder; thy sergeant, Counterbuff,
at the left; grasp in his jugulars; and then let me alone to tickle his diaphragma.
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, 1840
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The works of Thomas Middleton, collected, with some account ...
Enter Sweetball, Flesh-hook, and Counterbuff. Sweet. Now, Flesh-hook, use thy
talon, set upon his right shoulder ; thy sergeant, Counterbuff, at the left; grasp in
his jugulars; and then let me alone to tickle his diaphragma. Flesh. You are sure ...
Thomas Middleton, Alexander Dyce, 1840
Halationzi. A. Counterbuff. We have a ve lengthy letter from I. Marlow, on this sub]
ect,_for whic it IS impossible to find space in the present issue. Other items of
correspondence and a great number of notes for other parts of the magazine are
...
5
The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
Spenser, Shep. C'al., February, Embleme. COUnterbuff (koun'ter-buf), w. A blow
in an opposite direction ; a stroke that stops motion or causes a recoil. It shall rest
Till I conclude it with a counterbuff COUnter-approach (koun'ter-a-proch*), n.
William Dwight Whitney, 1889
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
... thought she would keep her own majesty in welcoming it, but the beams
thereof so struck his eyes, with such a counterbuff * upon his pride, that, if his
anger could not so quickly love, nor his pride so easily honour, yet both were
forced to find ...
7
The Complete Works in Verse and Prose: Shepheards calendar ...
... God at all, or not so much as yonger folke. For that being ripened with long
experience, 1. 93, vnto whom] vnto those . . . biiins;] Cuddye . . . counterbuff
whome Q' : vnto those, whom Q3 : QV as 5 (but comma aster ' vnto ') — ' thofe '
accepted.
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A dictionary of the English language, greatly improved
... agency Counterbalance, coun'tér-bal-ance, 11. an opposite weight; equivalent
power Counterbalance, coun-tér-bal'ance, v. to act against with an opposite
weight Counterbuff, coun'tér-bufi', n. a stroke that produce a recoil [bank
Counterbuff ...
George FULTON (and KNIGHT (George)), 1833
9
History of the Rise of the Huguenots
... after he had ronne a good many courses very well and faire, meeting with yong
Monsieur de Lorges, capitaine of the scottishe garde, received at the said de
Lorge his hands such a counterbuff, as, the blow first lighting upon the King's
head, ...
10
The Works of Thomas Middleton
SCENE II. A Street. Enter Sweetball, Flesh-hook, and Counterbuff. Sweet. Now,
Flesh-hook, use thy talon, set upon his right shoulder ; thy sergeant, Counterbuff,
at the left ; grasp in his jugulars ; and then let me alone to tickle his diaphragma.
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Thomas Dekker, 1885
