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Unbuckle   Listen
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Unbuckle  v. t.  To loose the buckles of; to unfasten; as, to unbuckle a shoe. "Unbuckle anon thy purse."






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"Unbuckle" Quotes from Famous Books



... A something in the act, more intimate and more familiar than had ever marked their intercourse, set her blood running strangely. When he turned away and bade Bigot unbuckle ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... succeeded, the Bishop could not tell. But, as he watched the swiftly moving river, he found himself wishing that his task had been to strengthen, rather than to weaken; to gird up and brace, rather than subtly to unbuckle and disarm. Yet by so doing, would he not have been ensuring his own happiness, bringing back the joy of life to his own heart, at the expense of the two whom he had given to be each other's in the Name of ...
— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... took a pistol out of his saddlebags. This created much merriment for them, as they thought it would have been of little use to him in case of attack. They told him that if that was where he carried it, the South Carolinians would shoot him some day before he could unbuckle his saddle-bags. ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler

... Halbert," said the Lady, "that was a tempting of Divine Providence. I never bade you unbuckle the sword from your side, or lay the lance from your hand—I never bade you sit still when your honour called you to rise and ride; but are not blade and spear dangers enough for one man's life, and why would you trust ...
— The Abbot • Sir Walter Scott



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