Do we say burley or burly
Sir Simon Burley's Tragedy.
An attempt to raise in his favour the inhabitants of the island was instantly suppressed, and its author, Burley, formerly a captain in the royal army, suffered the punishment of a traitor.
Agt. HARRY P. DEUEL, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 1302 Farnam St. J.K. CHAMBERS, Depot Ticket Agent, 10th and Marey Sts. PHILADELPHIA, PA.133 South 4th St.D.E. BURLEY, Trav.
THE YOUNG KNIGHT: A PARABLE A gay young knight in Burley stood, Beside him pawed his steed so good, His hands he wrung as he were wood With waiting for his love
'My own true love in Burley Walk Does hunt to-night, I fear; And if he meet my father stern, His game may cost him dear.
The Perspicuous Doctor, Walter Burley (fourteenth century).
Gimme that Burley drill.
" II.Henry Morton's Escape The dragoons soon arrived at Milnwood, and carried off Henry Morton prisoner for having given a night's shelter to Balfour of Burley, an old military comrade of his father's.
On his persisting in addressing the people themselves in spite of the warning of their spokesman, Balfour of Burley, whom he recognised.
III.The Presbyterian Insurgents John Balfour of Burley, a man of some fortune and good family, a soldier from his youth upwards, aspired to place himself at the head of the Presbyterian forces then in arms against the English government.
Balfour of Burley refused to sheathe his sword, and Evandale followed his old commander Claverhouse (now Viscount Dundee) in joining the rebel Jacobites.
Burley, whose blood was up, exclaimed, "Down with the Midianites!"
Burley, in requital, grasped his throat, and both came headlong into the river, and were swept down the stream.
KILLION, BEVERLY A. BURLEY.
Burley's baffling black boards.
SEE BURLEY, ROSS A. KILVERT, FRANCIS.
BURLEY, ROSS A. Burley's baffling black boards.
BURLEY, ROSS A. Burley's baffling black boards.
Beverly A. Burley Killion (C); 15Sep71; R513104.
KILLION, BEVERLY A. BURLEY.
Burley's baffling black boards.
SEE BURLEY, ROSS A. KILVERT, FRANCIS.
the "Bailie" sighed, "that I should see this day!" Next rode in melancholy guise, with sombre vest and scarf, Sir Edward, Laird of Ellieslaw, the far-renowned "Black Dwarf;" Upon his left, in bonnet blue, and white locks flowing free The pious sculptor of the gravestood "Old Mortality!" "Balfour of Burley," of "Claverhouse," the "Lord of Evandale," And stately "Lady Margaret," whose woe might naught avail!
BALFOUR OF BURLEY, leader of the Covenanters in Scott's "Old Mortality.
'Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word, never.' 'Die,' cries Balfour of Burley to the villain in 'Old Mortality.'
Kaviak was formally introduced, but instead of responding to his hosts' attentions, the only thing he seemed to care about, or even see, was something that in the hurly-burly everybody else overlookedthe decorations.
Thus, above the great marble mantel,carved with thyrsi, and supported by proud deep-bosomed caryatides,you will find burly Sebastian Musgrave, "the Speaker," an all-overbearing man even on canvas.
I promised the burly detective that in exchange for his secrecy regarding my statement that I would assist him in every manner possible in the solution of the problem.
But the Corporal was one of those red-faced burly people with whom you have, if you are close to them, either to laugh or fight.
The incident was strange in the midst of such a hurly-burly.
For nearly two hours this frightful hurly-burly continued, the harsh roar reverberating ominously in the gorges of the hills, and thrown back, in crash after crash, from the rocky slopes of the two ridges.
" "Winds, weapons, flames make not such hurly burly, As raving women turn all topsy-turvy.
He did not fill it as the burly shoulders of Silent had done.
After Stockton and Bunner come O. Henry (1862-1910) and Jack London (1876-1916), apostles of the burly and vigorous in fiction.
Unarmed, he knew that he did not stand a chance against his burly captives, but had it not been for the fact that one of them had a pistol, he would have, even then, attempted to make a break for liberty.
Two yards away from him in the garden, in front of the orange-house, was Monsieur Tudesco, burly and full-blown as usual, but how metamorphosed in costume!
Two burly policemen followed him.
To-day Sprigley, the guard in first command of the gang, had placed him opposite Judy, the burly negro, but the latter was being driven straight toward absolute exhaustion.
No woodsman could mistake the high, rocking shoulders, the burly form, the wicked ears laid back against the flat, massive head, the fangs gleaming white, the long, hooked claws slashing through the turf as he ran.
But one thing he did that was hardly fair He peeped in the cupboard, and, finding there That none had remembered for him to prepare, "Now, just to set them a-thinking, I'll bite their rich basket of fruit," said he, "This burly old pitcherI'll burst it in three!
The tramp was a burly man, and after the surprise of the attack he attempted to fight.
He was burly in person, and slovenly in dress, his shirt-frill always covered with snuff.
"I ask your pardon, sir," said this old man, in a very quavering voice, as the burly Judge came up with him, and he extended his hand feebly towards his arm.
Sydney Smith declared that when Lord John first contested Devonshire the burly electors were disappointed by the exiguity of their candidate, but were satisfied when it was explained to them that he had once been much larger, but was worn away by the anxieties and struggles of the Reform Bill of 1832.
A burly Sikh was pointing to the name of General Miltiades Murger and asking for the number printed thereagainst.
The light of Williams's lantern, emerging from behind the bamboo palings, disclosed the burly form of the boatswain with a shrinking Malay in tow.
Here another hurly-burly of rearing and plunging combat awaited him.
“It was Mr. Glenarm’s pride,” he muttered, and sprang upon a burly fellow who had came in through one of the library doors and was climbing over the long table we had set up as a barricade.
Surveyor, a burly mass of broadcloth and big watch-chain, carries an intimidating note-book, and a menacing pencil, making mems.
Burly white-apron'd Proprietor behind counter.