390 examples of burly in sentences

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.

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