Buckles
[bʌklz]
Examples
- A girl was hung in Massachusetts in 1789 for forcibly taking the hat, shoes, and buckles of another girl she had met in the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- To hand-rail and stanchion we clung, and finally as we saw the end approaching, snapped the buckles of our harness to the rings at her sides. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- One of the prisoners complained that in the night somebody had taken his buckles out of his shoes. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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