Roger took the burr and handed it to the master, who quietly put it into his pocket, and walked away without saying a word.

But then, it has opened the chestnut-burr too, The walnut released from the case where it grew; And now our Thanksgiving is nigh!

That one was not larger than a walnut, was shaped like a brioche, and resembled a chestnut-burr.

Soap for the slaves was made by the women of the plantation; by burning cockle-burrs, blackjack wood and other materials, then adding the accumulated fat of the past few weeks.

" The No. 3 grinder referred to has chilled iron burrs, and requires from 3 to 4 horse-power to grind 15 bushels of corn per hour.

For how many centuries have the blackberries tempted men, women, and children out into the fields, laughing at scratched hands and nettles, and clinging burrs, all merrily endured for the sake of so simple a treasure-trove.

Then he took warning, for he despised grass burrs, and that evening the two cronies crossed the river and went up into the hills where they had ranged as calves the summer before Within a week, at a lake which both well remembered, they met their mothers face to face.

Cranks attach themselves to any social movement, as a shaggy gown will gather burrs.

The two yearlings were the last to go, but one morning while feeding the line-back got a ripe grass burr in his mouth.

" "He wants my scalp, is all," Jack explained easily, picking burrs from the fringe of his sashburrs he had gotten when he ran a race with Teresita from the farther side of the orchard to the spring, a short time before.

yet they are too deeply imbedded, in which our deeper life may pluck away the adhering burrs from its garments, and arise disburdened, clean, and free.

In order to facilitate as much as possible the repairs in such cases, the fish-plates are not riveted by machinery, but by hand; and it is only necessary to cut the rivets with which the fish-plate is fastened, and remove it if broken: A drill passed through the two holes of the rail removes all burrs that may be in the way of the new rivet.

He started to speak, then shut his mouth with a snap, turned on his heel, and strode across the treeless glade to where his noisy riders were saddling up, tightening girths, buckling straps, and examining the unshod feet of their horses or smoothing out the burrs from mane and tail.

He wore a steeple-hat, tall boots, an' spurs With rowels to 'em big ez ches'nut-burrs, An' his gret sword behind him sloped away Long 'z a man's speech thet dunno wut to say.

He was always tightening my axle-burrs, or dosing me with kerosene through my hot-air pipe, or toying with my timer.

He would not accept the best argumentative burr that our chauffeur could produce as sufficient explanation or guarantee.

Squirrels always use chestnut burrs for combs.

The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses

I mind me how with a lover's care From my Sunday coat I brushed off the burrs, and smoothed my hair, And cooled at the brook-side my brow and throat.