Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...harbor's mouth, was beating the waves harder and harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing an ardent desire to die for her sake a number of times...