Do we say borough or burro

borough 470 occurrences

It comes over the heart of many a man at times, Here am I, running my little office, shop, factory, fire-engine, or professional circuit, with no influence that I can see, beyond my borough or my barn-yard.

Some, by inheriting a borough, inherit a seat; and some sit by the favour of others, whom, perhaps, they may gratify by the act which provoked the expulsion.

We have found, by experience, that though a squire has given ale and venison in vain, and a borough has been compelled to see its dearest interest in the hands of him whom it did not trust, yet the general state of the nation has continued the same.

An ejected placeman goes down to his county or his borough, tells his friends of his inability to serve them, and his constituents of the corruption of the government.

To have friends in the borough was of little use to him, who wanted friends in the house; a pretence was easily found to evade a majority, and the seat was, at last, his, that was chosen, not by his electors, but his fellow-senators.

He continued, on many other occasions, to give proofs of an insuperable courage, and a steadiness of resolution not to be shaken; and, as a proof of his firm adherence to the parliament, joined with the borough of Taunton, in returning thanks for their resolution to make no more addresses to the king.

'In the rotten-borough times, Mr. Smith,' he once said to Lancelot, 'we could have made a senator of you at once; but, for the sake of finality, we were forced to relinquish that organ of influence.

Dr. Johnson said, the belief of such a custom having existed was also held in England, where there is a tenure called Borough English, by which the eldest child does not inherit, from a doubt of his being the son of the tenant[860].

We called on Dr. Adams, and travelled towards Worcester, through Wenlock; a very mean place, though a borough.

In my way home through the Borough, I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereaboutsa look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist; and in the coxcombry of taught-charity I gave away the cake to him.

The reference to the Borough suggests therefore that the aunt in question was not Sarah Lamb (Aunt Hetty) but her sister.

Then you must walk all along the Borough side of the Seine facing the Tuileries.

"A letter sent by a Government Department to the Hornsey Borough Council was so long that it was not read at all.

The Amateur Thespians of the Borough of Manhattan gave a whole series of performances at the club during the autumn, and by slow degrees the society papers began to take notice.

Though the manners of Mr. Falkland were condescending and attentive, his hours of retirement were principally occupied in contemplations too dignified for scandal, and too large for the altercations of a vestry, or the politics of an election-borough.

BOROUGH, corruption in a, ii. 373.

Borough English, v. 320.

New York, city of New York, Borough of Manhattan.

A remarkable fact is that 21 per cent of all taxable incomes (not persons) were in the single Borough of Manhattan (the main part of New York City).

Here in the Eastertide of 879 Alfred, in the words of the "Saxon Chronicle," "wrought a fortress [of which perhaps the Mump at Borough Bridge is the site], and from that work warred on the (Danish) army, with that portion of the men of Somerset that was nearest."

A small monument (best approached from the main road between Lyng and Borough bridge) was erected in 1801 by Mr John Slade, the owner of the estate, to commemorate the events connected with the locality; but the inscription is misleading in giving 879 (instead of 878) as the year when Alfred took refuge here, and in stating that he lay concealed for a whole year (instead of a few months).

It was a borough as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor, but its corporation was abolished in 1886.

A city and parliamentary borough on the Avon, 107 m. W. from London, with a population (in 1901) of 52,751.

In mediaeval days Bath was a walled city, and fragments of its fortifications, crowned by a modern battlement, may still be seen in "Borough Walls"; and two round-headed arches of the old E. gate are visible in a passage behind the Empire Hotel, leading to the river.

Burrow (or Borough) Bridge, 1-1/2 m. N.E. of Athelney Station.

burro 99 occurrences

" "You mean the Indian and the burro with the silver bells that came over the pass some time before you?" Of course they belonged to him, she was thinking, even as she made the inquiry.

This play cowboy, with his absurdly enormous silver spurs, would naturally put bells on his burro.

With the last turn, which brought them level with the plain, they came upon an Indian, a baggage burro, and a riding-pony.

" Every time a burro gets into the corn, an Indian master cuts off a bit of long, furry ear as a lesson.

When the permeating softness suddenly yielded to full transparency, spreading from the fanfare of the rising sun come bolt above the range, and the mist rose, she left the road at sight of two ponies and a burro in a group, their heads together in drooping fellowship.

Yes, a practical town; and I am surprised at your disloyalty to your own burro by mentioning camels.

Above it rose a cowpuncher hat, then a silk shirt with a string tie, and after that a sage baggage burro with clipped ears, a solemn-faced pony, and an Indian.

Hemos estado en los bosques. ¿Ve V. todas nuestras flores? ¿Le gusta a V. nuestro burro? Se llama Perico.

Es un burro viejo muy manso.

¡Cuánto nos divertimos! Nuestro burro merendó en el campo.

To Alcatraz the Mexican was the type, and Cordova had seemed to unite in himself many powersstrength like a herd of bulls, endurance greater than the contemptible patience of the burro, speed like the lightning which winks in the sky one instant and shatters the cottonwood tree the next.

There is one difference between you and Rabbi Balaam's burro, David: it could talk sense, and you can't," was the offensive rejoinder.

The Burro tamer.

The Hidden burro.

SEE Tappan's burro and other stories.

The burro's money bag.

The burro of Barnegat Road.

"Last week," he went on hotly, "an evil gringo with the clay of his burrowings still upon his garments cursed me and called me greaser because I did not give him all the road for his burro.

She has come for the washing and has brought it home again for months past, and Karl, who is thoughtful of everybody, has assisted her with her burden when she was lifting it from her burro's back or packing it on the little beast.

"In the Placeta Burro; near the house of Pedro Salazar.

Haught for once unhobbled a burro and set it free without a parting kick.

Haught put a halter on the burro, using strong language the while, and then he proceeded to exercise his habit of kicking burros.

When Haught had ended his exercise he tied up the burro.

A Ford's like a mule or a burro.

There was not even a burro trail along that ridge.

Do we say   borough   or  burro