465 examples of burney in sentences

On August 17th a committee of Malissori chiefs visited Admiral Burney, who was in command, at Scutari, of the marines from the international fleet, to notify him that the Malissori would never agree to incorporation in Montenegro.

' Mrs. Burney, wife of his friend Dr. Burney, came in, and he seemed to be entertained with her conversation.

' Mrs. Burney wondered that some very beautiful new buildings should be erected in Moorfields, in so shocking a situation as between Bedlam and St. Luke's Hospital; and said she could not live there.

BURNEY: August 2. 'The weather, you know, has not been balmy; I am now reduced to think, and am at last content to talk of the weather.

Mrs. Burney's escape from so much danger, and her ease after so much pain, throws, however, some radiance of hope upon the gloomy prospect.

I rejoice to hear that you are all so well, and have a delight particularly sympathetick in the recovery of Mrs. Burney.' To MR.

Miss Burney, in Dec. 1783, described the quarrel to Mr. Cambridge:'"I never saw Dr. Johnson really in a passion but then; and dreadful indeed it was to see.

Miss Burney describes a dinner at Mr. Thrale's, about this time, at which she met Johnson, Boswell, and Dudley Long.

Miss Burney writes of him in Feb. 1779:'He is a professed minority man, and very active and zealous in the opposition.

'Mrs. Thrale,' wrote Miss Burney in 1780, 'is a most dear creature, but never restrains her tongue in anything, nor, indeed, any of her feelings.

'I have very often,' wrote Miss Burney, in the following June, 'though I mention them not, long and melancholy discourses with Dr. Johnson about our dear deceased master, whom, indeed, he regrets incessantly.'

Miss Burney thus writes of the day of the sale:'Mrs. Thrale went early to town, to meet all the executors, and Mr. Barclay, the Quaker, who was the bidder.

(Like Mrs. Thrale and Miss Burney, she cared nothing for dates.)

"OTTERS" AND PARAVANES The "Otter" system of defence of merchant ships against mines was devised by Lieutenant Dennis Burney, D.S.O., R.N. (a son of Admiral Sir Cecil Burney), and was on similar lines to his valuable invention for the protection of warships.

"OTTERS" AND PARAVANES The "Otter" system of defence of merchant ships against mines was devised by Lieutenant Dennis Burney, D.S.O., R.N. (a son of Admiral Sir Cecil Burney), and was on similar lines to his valuable invention for the protection of warships.

Dr. Burney says he was "equal in science, if not in genius, to the best musicians of his age.

n. 2; Miss Burney and Mrs. Thrale, iv. 237, n. 1; Macaulay, ib.; Mrs. Piozzi, iv. 346; Boswell, ib.; elegant as his writing, ii. 95, n. 2; iv. 236, 428; essential requisite for it, in want of an, iv. 166; exact precision, ii. 434; happiest kind, his view of the, iv. 50; imaginary victories gained over him, iv.

417; Dr. Burney, iv. 410, n. 1; Miss Burney, iv.

417; Dr. Burney, iv. 410, n. 1; Miss Burney, iv.

234, 353-9; Burney, Dr., i. 286, 323, 327, 500; iv. 239, 360-1, 377; Bute, Earl of, i. 376, 380; Cave, Edward, i. 91, 107, 120-3, 136-8, I55-7; Chamberlain, the Lord, iii. 34, n. 4; Chambers, R., i. 274; Chapone, Mrs., iv.

341; Miss Burney's account, iv. 426, n. 2; Macleods of Dunvegan Castle delighted with him, v. 208, n. 1; softened, iv.

425; v. 18; by Miss Burney, i. 144, n. 1; ii. 141, n. 2; v. 23, n. 4; by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 94, n. 4; in The Race ii.

425; v. 18; by Miss Burney, iv.

319; straggler, a, iii; 306; Streatham, 'absorbed from his old friends,' i. 495, n. 2; ii. 427, n. 1; iii. 225; Miss Burney describes his life there, iv.

387; changes in it, iii. 172, n. 2; criticises it himself, iii. 257, n. 3; easier in his poems than his prose, v. 17; female writing, ill-suited for, i. 223; formed on Temple and Chambers, i. 218; on writers of the seventeenth century, i. 219; Gallicisms, dislikes, iii. 343, n. 3; imitations of it, by Barbauld, Mrs., iii. 172; Burney, Miss, iv.

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