We have pretty well shaken her off, by that simple expedient of referring her to you; but there are more burrs in the wind.

Another cousin of the Starfish is the Sea-urchin, a round prickly creature rather like the burr of the sweet-chestnut tree.

The burrs stuck to himbut they were gbod and loving burrs for all that.

Having once cleaved like a burr to some great man's coat, he resolves not to be shaken off with any small indignities, and, finding his hold thoroughly fast, casts how to insinuate yet nearer.

When we finally emerge we are covered from head to foot with large prickly burrs from the seeding burdocks, as well as with the small round burrs of the goose-grass.

Senator John Adair, former companion-in-arms of Wilkinson in the wars against the Northwestern Indians, enlisted in support of Burr with heart and soul.

Then his huge, rounded back would straighten itself, his bull-dog chin would project, and his r's would burr like a kettledrum.

" "Some one has tied a lot of burrs on his tail," called out the hired man.

Duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr After the painting by J. Mund.

And why on horseback have you set 10 Him whom you love, your Idiot Boy? Scarcely a soul is out of bed: Good Betty, put him down again; His lips with joy they burr at you;

It seems a dream to her, that she who sits there now reeling yarn in her stuff petticoat and white short-gown is the same who took the arm of Colonel Burr amid the blaze of wax-lights and the sweep of silks and rustle of plumes.

"We can't make burrs out of wood, or patch up with rat pie, which seems to be about the only thing we have plenty of.

I could not tell how to rid myself better of the troublesome burr than by getting him into the discourse of hunting; and then tormenting him a while with our words of art, the poor scorpion became speechless, and suddenly vanished!

Gen. Schuyler denied the truth of this assertion, which Dr. Cooper then reiterated in a published letter, saying that Hamilton and Judge Kent had both characterized Burr as "a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government," and that "he could detail a still more despicable opinion which Gen. Hamilton had expressed of Mr. Burr."

Then ship on the propeller, and drive other keys of an equal length from the other side of the boss, so that the points of the keys will nearly meet in the middle; next burr up the edge of the grooves upon the heads of the keys, to prevent them from working back; and finally tap a bolt into the side of the boss to penetrate the shaft.

Hamilton, who alone among the Federal statesmen had openly opposed Burr during the contest for the Presidency, again separated from his party, and earnestly denounced him.