"Burry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moment of a certain difficult manoeuvre, four men had to climb to the crossbars of the fore-mast in order to reef the mainsail. The first who sprang to the ratlines was Hunt. The second was Martin Holt; Burry and one of the recruits followed them. I could not have believed that any man could display such skill and agility as Hunt's. His hands and feet hardly caught the ratlines. Having reached the crossbars first, he stretched himself on the ropes to the ...
— An Antarctic Mystery • Jules Verne
... Erskine do. there Martin Rodger smith there Jas. Kinnibrugh tayl. Shettleston Wm. Walkinshaw miller Barony Wm. M'Leland plaisterer Glasg. John Niyison wright there Andrew Niven Gorbals William Reid nailer there John Burry weaver Calton Malcom M'Lean do. there Janet Zuill Glasgow Wm. Hamilton in Carmunnock John Warnock farmer Cathcart Andrew Park do. Eastwood George Deans weaver Neilston John Johnston do. Duckethall James Cochran do. there Robert ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... whizzed dia enkephalou (right across the diameter of my Brain) exactly like a Hummel Bee, alias Dumbeldore, the gentleman with Rappee Spenser (sic), with bands of Red, and Orange Plush Breeches, close by my ear, at once sharp and burry, right over the summit of Quantock [item of Skiddaw 10 (erased)] at earliest Dawn just between the Nightingale that I stopt to hear in the Copse at the Foot of Quantock, and the first Sky-Lark that was a Song-Fountain, dashing up ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... one in an 'underd, poor maid! I putts a flower 'ere every time I passes. Pretty maid an' gude maid she was, though they wouldn't burry 'er up to th' church, nor where she wanted to be burried neither." The old labourer paused, and put his hairy, twisted hand flat down on the ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... view of the Bristol Channel, the whitened houses of Ilfracombe, with the hills of Devon and Somerset, Lundy Island, and the scenery of Swansea Bay. And on the reverse of the picture, almost the whole peninsula of Gower, the extensive estuary of the Burry River, and part of the beautiful expanse of the County and Bay of Carmarthen, is spread out like a map before you. King Arthur's Stone, an immense rock of lapis molaris, twenty tons weight, supported by a circle of others—the remains of Druidism—invites the attention ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 494. • Various |
