Word: buff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have never been able to see it, but I was told by one who should know that fur-fowl is being bred successfully in this state. The fur-fowl is a cross-breed between New Zealand Red Hare and a Buff Orpington Hen. The offspring, which is hatched from an egg, has the head of a hare, with long ears and brown eyes. It has the body of a chicken, and a hare's tail. It walks on two legs, like a chicken, and, in place of wings or forelegs, it has short stubs that swing back and forth...
Rite of Spring. In Fabens, Tex., Mary Louise Nye, asked why she was driving down the main street buff-bare, drawled blissfully: "The sun felt so good, I just unconsciously removed my clothes...
Interiors, Minerva Buff...
...hidden behind every girdle," one of the party warned Shamus. But soon Shamus and Cleo were bucking a storm of love and hate that swept them like a typhoon. On one occasion, Shamus drenched her with seawater. "You bastard," she muttered. When Shamus took a moonlight swim in the buff, Cleo tossed off her "intimate garments" and plunged after him. "The water was just above her waist. Facing him, she threw her arms out wide. 'Look at me,' she challenged, her head high. 'Don't you want me? Don't you want...
...Lawyer Pettigrew, an ambitious politician who had seduced pretty Meg Taylor in the underbrush; Schoolmarm Fisher, who had a lurid mother complex; Rufe Albright, who frolicked in the barn with fat Fanny Rhimer; and precocious young Gregory Beamer, who persuaded Lillian's adolescent sister to bathe in the buff with...