How To Use Birr In A Sentence
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Now, how sorry we feel for those other globe trotters on the launch, birring along behind a hot, bubbling, puffing, steam kettle -- and so crowded, and in this heat too, whilst we extend at our ease in a white and sky-blue boat, with pink cushions, and dreamily listen to the silky frou frou of the southern sea.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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As the sbirro had himself been a lazzarone, he saw at once the trick that had been played him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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With Ms. Bearden as guide and companion, I go from a shrimp taco to pork carnitas on a bun to stewed goat meat in a bowl, called birria.
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Ethiopian currency until November 1997 when Eritrea issued its own currency, the nakfa, at approximately the same rate as the birr, i.e.,
The 1999 CIA Factbook
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Examples of aged auto genitalia accommodate as assumption aperture handles, wood-paneled birr trims, and advertent advanced trims and fascias.
Acquisition Aged Auto Parts
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Euphrates from Birra to Felugia there be certaine places where you pay custome, so many Medines for a some or Camels lading, and certaine raysons and sope, which is for the sonnes of Aborise, which is Lord of the Arabians and all that great desert, and hath some villages vpon the riuer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A night with this Birr native in the intimate setting of Moon River, where there is room for only 90, will be a very special evening's entertainment.
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A priest came by, then a lawyer, then a poet; but the sbirro made no sign.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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Birriria Mary's on the square is making birria with cash donations (left pocket of the apron for victims, right pocket for the business: standard book keeping!) and the ayuntamiento is also receiving donations People from all over town are bringing their shopping carts filled with clothing, etc.
Landslide in San Juan Cosala
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Internet cafes have profited, and so has the Ethiopian Postal Service, which collects a service fee starting at 10 Ethiopian birr, or 57 cents, for each online entry it processes.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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When the British Tommies heard the "birr" of the five-inch
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders
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Part of the JM Barrie biopic was filmed at Richmond Theatre, giving Birrell a special affinity with the tear-jerker.
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Nearby Fatuma Issak explains that her one-year old, Saptia, cradled in her lap, had been sick for two months now and she couldn't afford the 12 birr for treatment at the clinic.
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-- To wanton it here in the moonlight with that damned swashbuckler, that brigand, that kennel-bred beast of a sbirro!
Love-at-Arms
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The milk-cows were nipping the clovery parks, and chewing their cuds at their leisure; -- the wild partridges whidding about in pairs, or birring their wings with fright over the hedges; -- and the blue-bonneted ploughmen on the road cracking their whips in wantonness, and whistling along amid the clean straw in their carts.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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A second road, turning north-west from Catterick Bridge, mounted the Pennine Chain by way of forts at Rokeby, Bowes and Brough-under-Stainmoor, descended into the Eden valley, reached Hadrian's wall near Carlisle (Luguvallium), and passed on to Birrens.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Fifty members of Ballinrobe Active Retirement Group will betake themselves to Clonmacnoise and Birr Castle tomorrow on the occasion of their annual outing.
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The post office can also create an email address, which the State Department requires, for an additional two birr.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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Rejoice, ye birring paitricks a '; [whirring partridges]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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She did not even shiver when the front door of the basement closed, and she heard the sonorous birring of the motor, drowning the giddy voices of the servants, grow fainter and fainter until it finally ceased altogether.
Scottish Ghost Stories
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The post office charges 10 birr for the primary applicant and five birr per dependent listed on the same form.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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Various types of pozole, mole, whitefish with garlic, fish birria, chichicuilotes (birds indigenous to the Jalisco lakeshores) are served, along with bote, a stew made with beef, pork or chicken, with vegetables usually cooked in pulque and served in a thick sauce.
The cuisine of Jalisco: la cocina tapatia
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The foundation and the school are as well known as Gabo and Birri.
CASTRO SPEAKS AT BROADCAST SCHOOL INAUGURATION
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What secret does he bring me under those misty wings, -- that busy birring sound, like Neighbor Clark's spinning-wheel?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
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Follow-up cases are charged 5 birr per month.
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After work stopped about 2pm Birrell and Nasmyth made their examination, and then appear to have travelled to the shaft by the return airway.
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He appreciated the quality and originality of Adamu's work and employed the artist at a salary of 50 birr a month, slightly under the average salary in Ethiopia at the time.
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We passed by the Convent and old Mrs Birrane peered at us through the closed gates.
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E' stato molto bello bere un paio di birre in un bar, e tutti sono simpatici e divertenti e di buona compagnia.
Archive 2009-02-01
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One shopper, who gave his name as Geremew, simply held up the thick wad of birr, the Ethiopian currency, that he was holding as he waited to pay for a small basket of food.
Ethiopian Food Prices Up Nearly 50%
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Fruits such as baobab (Adansonia digitata) and morula (Sclerocarya birrea) are exceptionally rich in the vitamin.
Chapter 4
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Among the Romans, the hood (cucullus, a word of Celtic origin) was worn as a separate garment especially by drivers, herdsmen, and labourers; and by all classes as part of the lacerna, the birrus, and particularly the paenula, varieties of cloaks.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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I have taken a loan of 300 birr and I can use it to buy more produce at a cheaper price.
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A lazzarone always addresses a sbirro as _eccellenza_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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That lesson was drilled into the hapless Galway champions yesterday by a supremely drilled Birr side.
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In the riuer of Euphrates from Birra to Felugia there be certaine places where you pay custome, so many Medines for a some or Camels lading, and certaine raysons and sope, which is for the sonnes of Aborise, which is
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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Wonderful, serr, wonderful;" "Ah, well, may-ay-be, may-ay-be" -- these be words of potent irony when uttered with a certain birr.
The House with the Green Shutters
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Una cheve is una chela, una fría, una Corona (this can be any brand of beer), una birria, una caguama (if it's a really big bottle).
Weekend drinking
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They get about 2 birr a kilo compared to just 25 Ethiopian cents last year.
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When I do make a few birr, I have to plan it to last for a couple of days.
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A few months ago 100 kg of maize would have cost 40 birr ((pounds) 3.25).
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With what tools his sbirro was at work I could not say; but surely they must be such as would leave me a few moments.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
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Well, I’ve just collapsed over the finishing line of the first day’s walk - an allegedly not too difficult 27 kilometer trek from the small village called Roncesvalles on the southern edge of the Pyrenees at the Spanish and French border, to a small town called Zubirri.
Walking El Camino de Santiago: The Complete Notes.
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Shure she'll spring out like a birrd an 'fear no foe by dint of the two bottles of potheen she has taken an' the couple o 'lads
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21
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The Pátzcuaro birria is in an unthickened but savory chile broth.
Birria revisited, part II
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The government devalued the local currency, the birr, by 17 percent against the dollar in September, significantly raising the price of imported goods.
Ethiopia’s Inflation Rate Hits Nearly 15 Percent in December
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The sbirro fell on his knees, but the officer was inexorable, and he was sent to prison.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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This Ethiopian farmer is facing famine again and, to keep his eight children alive, has been reduced to collecting wood and grass from the bush to sell at market for two birr a bundle.
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Due to unforeseen circumstances the day trip to Birr Castle has been cancelled.
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According to the dictionary, birred means: “To make or move with a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.”
I HEART BACON
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Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline.
Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
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But what manner of companion would this sbirro make in times of peace?
Love-at-Arms
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He wanted to cheat his confederate, and his confederate had cheated him; but far from bearing him malice for having done so, the sbirro views the conduct of the lazzarone in the light of an exploit, and feels an additional respect for him in consequence.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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The Ethiopian government was also incensed when Eritrea renounced use of the Ethiopian birr last year, introducing its own nakfa.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The price of a liter of gasoline stood at 21 birr this week, a massive increase despite government promises to keep inflation in single-digit territory.
Ethiopian Food Prices Up Nearly 50%
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The result of this is a coalition between the lazzarone and the sbirro -- law-breaker and law-preserver uniting in a systematic attack upon the pockets of the public.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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The great Prince Godfrey de Bouillon fully approved of the steps taken by these gentlemen, and for his own part contributed to the upkeep of the hospice the seigneurie of Montbirre, with all its dependencies, which formed a part of his domain in Brabant.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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Part of the JM Barrie biopic was filmed at Richmond Theatre, giving Birrell a special affinity with the tear-jerker.
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A tattered white sheet drops from the ceiling to serve as background for the requisite digital photo, which she takes of each entrant as part of the 10 birr she charges per submission.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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I watch the chef prepare our next course: pan-fried soft-shell crab with birred onions, celery noodles and fresh hearts of palm.
I HEART BACON
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An enormous raccoon, tranquilly munching a smoked trout, dropped its prey at sight of her, dashed between her legs, and made off like a fat banker in flight from creditors, making loud birring noises of alarm.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Birr had the type of start which Clarinbridge needed, particularly when they had conceded the wind advantage after losing the toss.
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Last year, two smaller regional centres were established with a grant of one million Ethiopian birr approved by Colligan's office.
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Tsehay Wondim, who owns an Internet kiosk with five computer terminals, normally charges one birr for every five minutes of Web surfing.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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We must make room for one more extract, in which he figures in conjunction with his friend the sbirro or gendarme, who before being invested with a uniform, and armed with carbine, pistols, and sabre, has frequently been a lazzarone himself, and usually preserves the instincts and tastes of his former station.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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A laden (sheepskin bag or weight equivalent of 30 kg) of grain used to cost one birr.
