How To Use Burly In A Sentence
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For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
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The guard ushered me into the office of a burly fiftysomething man in a police uniform.
Times, Sunday Times
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I asked as I reverted my gaze to the burly man at the wheel.
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He was joined immediately by a burly guy in a padded leather body warmer over a navy blue rugby shirt.
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had a tall burly frame
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Oh … and David Wilcox was there, standing beside the burly, cold-eyed man with the expensive suit and brilliantined hair.
DIAMOND RUBY
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Pulling into the upper third of the tach, one is treated to a deep-toned snarl that's both burly and refined.
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The father is so unpredictable that the only way the social services can visit is in the company of two burly security guards.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were upscale college students in preppy outfits alongside burly sons of the South in plaid shirts and baseball caps.
Times, Sunday Times
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The burly left-hander and former England one-day player has just been given the captaincy so to slog the left arm spin of Gary Keedy to long-on was nothing less than irresponsible.
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But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
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It was lavishly furnished, and behind its wide oak desk, sat a burly and stout man.
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There is no doubt in my mind that the word burly isn't interchangeable with the terms cut or svelte.
Tom Gerdy: All the Mr. Potters Getting You Down? Focus on the George Baileys Around You
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I went to the most sophisticated game, baccarat, and naively asked the burly pit boss what were the odds of winning at this game.
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Burly runs at Crow, knife and arm raised, Crow easily side-steps the attack and snatches Burly's wrist twisting it around behind the wide man in a most unnatural position.
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Mr. R. was a big, burly tough guy who melted when he had to give his girls away.
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Schweinsteiger chases down Jorge Guaga, forcing the burly defender to concede another corner.
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More important, perhaps, he has deprived himself of a peace and freedom that he might have expected after the hurly-burly of raising one family.
Elizabeth Buchan - An interview with author
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No burly drayman or big butts of beer, were wanted for apologies.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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As he yells the last part five burly men run down the stairs carrying fully automatic weapons with extended clips.
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So I bombed out of the office, jumped into a cab and whizzed home, to find two burly men in overalls on the doorstep.
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In a hurly-burly whirl of tunes and groovy jives, Macbeth: The Rock Opera, which puts on its final performance at the Guild Theatre tonight, is rocking audiences, young and old.
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They were soon at her side, two golden collies, closely followed by a burly man in a red-checked lumberjacket.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The biggest man, a burly bearded fellow, stepped in front of the others and pointed his loaded crossbow at Tak.
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Will China be able to embrace the hurly burly of the entrepreneurial marketplace?
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It hadn't even occurred to me that he might be in the shooting party, but here he came, strolling across, and behind him a great burly unmistakable moujik, in smock and boots, carrying his pouches.
Fiancée
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Their driver was a burly, bearded man in his forties.
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Love fades and dwindles in the hurly-burly of life.
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That was the signal for three burly security guards to surround Ashley.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the next-door compound, a burly man was whacking a skinny boy with a thick stick.
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Standing next to me was a fellow patient, a burly Scotsman, egging me on: ‘Go on, son, you can do it.’
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A burly blond - bearded Polish Jew in a sort of military cap makes himself the car captain.
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Williams said, getting a faceful of Baldwin's burly chest.
Onstage drama and backstage delight at the Academy Awards
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He was handsome and burly in a way, bald but with white tufts of hair rimming his skull.
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The word is also often applied to a fire engine, equipped with a number of burly men wielding choppers.
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He met me at Waterloo Station in a black Barack Obama T-shirt and jeans, burly and baldheaded, semi-shaven, looking more like a skinhead punter than a vicar.
The Velvet Reformation
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I await the knock upon the door and a brace of burly policemen with handcuffs.
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One was big and burly, with piggy little eyes and a big lower lip that hung down.
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Max opened his mouth to try to smooth it over, but was cut off by the sudden appearance of five burly men blowing through the door to his right, obviously on their way out.
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The burly Scotsman, who earlier this year was an emotional wreck after the public breakup of his marriage, had tears in his eyes.
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That's the kind of burly teamster, night worker, who was very isolated from the jury.
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Back in the hurly-burly of the main part of old Georgetown, I discovered surprises round every corner.
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Big burly sportsmen are allowed to be caring dads and partners, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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The auctioneer stepped up onto the gangway above the sheep pens, briefly registered the small crowd of burly men in padded waistcoats and tweed hats and cleared his throat.
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‘Aye, captain! ‘came the reply from the burly steersman already standing between the tillers of the huge steering oars.’
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These big, burly men can then haul inconsiderate Singaporeans off the train.
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And pretty soon that second guy is whispering to a third guy, and before long a whole burly tribe of traders gather around Ty and they're going bananas!
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Burlesque shows have been seeping into theatreland for a while now, and one, The Hurly Burly Show, returns after a successful Leicester Square Theatre run.
This week's new theatre
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The wagoner was a rough, profane, burly man, of generous feelings.
David Crockett
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But we were pulled back to reality by a burly man at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite all the pomp and circumstance, political hurly-burly raised its head at yesterday's festivities.
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The auctioneer stepped up onto the gangway above the sheep pens, briefly registered the small crowd of burly men in padded waistcoats and tweed hats and cleared his throat.
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The young soldier's competitor was a big burly man with beefy arms and legs the size of tree trunks, while the young duelist was small and scrawny - barely half the big man's size.
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After a while Mr Daniels, the 38 burly senior slaughterman, made a point of looking at his watch.
TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
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Busy, busy, busy and I go back to the hurly-burly of the office.
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He could then tell you that a couple of burly bobbies were hiding behind the hedge, stopwatch in hand, ready to bring you to book.
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The farmer was a big, burly man with a red face.
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The lead Jereist, a burly earthborn, wore a reproduction of the casual deep-purple suit that Jere Gutierrez had been wearing on that day they launched Mars Enterprise.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 21.1 of 31.1
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There was only one dissentient -- Rogers, a burly faceman from the Silver Stream.
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
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Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard.
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He was sitting next to a burly muscular youngster in dirty military fatigues who was trying to drink from two cans simultaneously.
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We have, on the one hand, an arrogant, unqualified celebrity, and on the other, a burly guy who seems to have a problem with thwacking women around.
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It's peaceful and pristine up here away from the hurly-burly of the recreation area.
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Burly forward James McDonnell kicked four goals while John Bowen, playing in the uncustomary position of centre half forward, kicked two.
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There aren't any seats left, unless I feel like squeezing up between two burly businessmen.
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A burly gentleman in plain clothes is insisting that we need a permit to photograph Burns outside Lenin's tomb.
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Words like that are called reduplicates and some of my favorites (found here, scroll down to the bottom) include dilly-dally, fuddy-duddy, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, and namby-pamby.
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Five minutes later burly full forward Luke Ferguson booted the ball to the net for a second goal and it looked curtains for the Carlow town side.
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In this company the 18-year-old was at ease, and unlike Walcott when he joined the club – also from Southampton – Oxlade-Chamberlain has the muscles and build for the hurly-burly of the elite game.
Arsenal v Manchester City: five things we learned | Jamie Jackson
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That spotlight is good news for President Obama, allowing him to ease back into the hurly burly and, potentially, ride the wave of the "Comeback Kid" story for a few weeks longer.
The Obama bump: A moment in time or real movement?
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A burly man raises a stick with a hook on the end to strike a baby seal as it surfaces from a blowhole in the ice.
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At a landing this morning a rough, burly fellow told me he had been to Saginaw an a frolic; that he had a brother and friends in the army who "blackguarded" him about not going in the army; a thing he seemed noways inclined to do.
Diary of Jason Niles (1814-1894) : June 22, 1861-December 31, 1864,
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The crowd silenced as a loud clang sounded behind the burly man.
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Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
Silas Marner
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Maria soon returned with her father, a burly man with a curled black mustache and slick hair.
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He comes across as a burly, brusque man with a penchant for cowboy hats and sunglasses.
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There were four burly men at the table, miners by the look of them, men who delved in the earth.
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Then the new pope came out—burly, light-haired, broad cheekbones.
Make Him a Saint
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Despite the hurly-burly involved in running a home, most parents have discussed who should take their children should they have a fatal accident.
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Inside the corral, a burly ferret on a powerful delphin shouted and whistled, his mount stamped and snorted not ten paws from the pod of sheep.
Writer Ferrets: Chasing the Muse
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But the man who actually meets me is big and burly with a short, military haircut.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside the building, escalators snake skywards but normal progress is blocked by a swarm of burly security guards.
Times, Sunday Times
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He looks as if he would be more at home in the still places of academe than in the hurly-burly of political life.
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Smokey the Bear stomps his burly self onto the stage and starts smiling and singing.
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I'm having a swim and a burly man strikes up a conversation.
The Sun
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It's somewhere between very burly and very giggly.
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I interjected that it took three burly blokes to get our 5m workboat into the club van, let alone onto a plane.
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And the countryside is also extremely big, so it's unlikely you will be woken by a burly security guard and told to move on.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the trapper strode towards a table, three burly men shouted greetings to him from across the room.
THE VIKING SYMBOL MYSTERY
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‘They write all too big, burly, bouncy tunes that throw their arms around you and squeeze you in inappropriate places,’ reckons Tim.
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And the native turned out to have a luncheon basket on his head so my heart rose, and by and bye a big fellow in khaki stravaiged out of the shades -- a jovial, burly Britisher called "Boots," -- told me he was hunting up the other fellows, and that they had got home late last night -- this about half an hour after time fixed -- so much for Indian punctuality hereaway!
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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She had been clamped by the time she got outside, and two burly men demanded £125 to have her car released.
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But at this time of year, amid the hurly-burly of last-minute present-buying and travel, I do tend to calm down and think like one.
Ingrid Newkirk: 2011 a Banner Year for Animals
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She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and bald fellow council member “Shrek” during a public hearing.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
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Radio 5 Live has been excelling itself with some reflective features far from the madding crowd of its usual breathless hurly-burly.
Sport in celluloid: Why Raging Bull lacks punch of Chariots of Fire | Frank Keating
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But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
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But apparently the festival organizers had anticipated such a reaction, because a burly volunteer was blocking each door.
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There were four burly men at the table, miners by the look of them, men who delved in the earth.
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He is a tall, burly man in his early 40s, with cropped hair, a friendly grin and a firm handshake.
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Amid the hurly-burly of a presidential race, it is sometimes difficult to view the candidates as three-dimensional human beings rather than cardboard cutouts on campaign posters.
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But even with the stiff breeze at his burly back to turn his military medium-fast into a briskish fast-medium, his first ball was cut backward of point for four by Brendan Nash and the remainder of his six-over spell passed without incident or distinction.
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Without warning, there was a sudden stampede running full pelt up from the disaster site, men and women in fatigues, burly construction workers, firemen in bunker gear.
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The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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Whether in the hurly-burly of real-world politics more information means better decisions is an open question.
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I had come to the farm with dreams of sweating in the sun with a hoe in my hand, chucking bales of hay at burly farmhands while my daughter played in the clean earth, chasing after small wild creatures.
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The leader of the guardsmen was a big, burly man, by trade a butcher.
The Belgians to the Front
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At the end of the night the beautiful maiden is trying to set up her handmaiden with a young burly blacksmith so she distracts the young guard with her feminine wiles and he is smitten.
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The confidence and burly purposefulness behind a 25-yarder that beat David Seaman and inflicted defeat on a resilient Arsenal were uncanny in a 16-year-old Everton substitute.
Guardian writers choose their favourite Premier League goal
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Four burly engine room stokers are eventually drafted in to take it downstairs.
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A voluble, burly man with a flush face and a deep voice, he was a force throughout the weekend.
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Burly Paddy, who's at the helm, suddenly thrusts a fishing rod into my hand.
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However, I must confess that with age has come a certain distaste for the noise, the crowds and the whole hurly-burly of mass protest.
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He haunted the deck at night, a great, burly, robust ghost, black with the sunburn of thirty years of sea and hairy as an orang-utan.
MAKE WESTING
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The burly soldier pause at the foot of the blockhouse.
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Burly arms folded, an expensive but unlit Cuban stogie jammed in his mouth, Morrison held and ancient billet unique to the Submarine Service, chief of the boat.
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In the hurly-burly of today's executive life, it is not surprising that few people can take time off ‘to stand and stare’.
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His question was answered when two burly men, each dressed in clean, hygienic white medical suits.
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These burly, barrel-chested men aren't quite comfortable within their macho trappings, but act as allegorical tools to explore issues of contemporary masculinity.
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The reforms fade as he speaks of the dark designs of regional foes, while his guileful chief coalition partner, the burly, corruption-shadowed grand vizier, a rival for the political affection of the aristocracy, exploits long-simmering hatreds to push for a broad range of curbs on democratic freedoms.
Bradley Burston: In Israel, the revolution has already begun
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There was the temper of the Norfolk fox-hunter in the "doggedness" which Marlborough noted as his characteristic, in the burly self-confidence which declared
History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767
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Two burly bodyguards in suits (lightweight, expensive, form-fitting, un-constructed Hollywood suits that showed off their muscles and concealed their armaments — they both had body builders 'asses, and she suspected they were wearing thongs, or no underwear at all, because you did not get that kind of gluteal definition in boxers) drove her to the studio in a black limo and limited their conversation to greetings.
The Sun from Under Water
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But in the hurly-burly of gala preparations, this idea had fallen through the cracks.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: The Night Lena Horne Rescued the Joffrey Ballet: A Birthday Tribute
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This time the person concerned was a burly Englishman who dealt with any resistance to tube insertion by the use of brute force.
Times, Sunday Times
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With the blood welling from a shothole in his broad, burly chest and the seal of death already settling on his ashen brow, he was scowling up into the half-compassionate, half-contemptuous faces about him.
Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
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There were upscale college students in preppy outfits alongside burly sons of the South in plaid shirts and baseball caps.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parataxonomy is not an office job, as Rob Roughley, the burly Canadian coleopterist once pointed out.
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We know, as I observed in my last post, that her primary strategy has been to portray him as an effeminate, elitist, and fragile ectomorph who will be weak in the face of aggression, and who will be readily done in by America's more burly antagonists.
Stephen Ducat: Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes"
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Followed by Pottle, the burly Customs agent was already descending the stairway, pausing only to retrieve his bass plug box.
INCA GOLD
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That night I was aboard the Kottur og Stulka preparing lutefisk for 90 burly sailors with fairy tale accents and tattoos of anchors.
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The family was escorted away by a team of burly female security guards.
The Sun
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The lingering stereotype of a union member may still be the burly Teamster or longshoreman.
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The burly Peter started at centre forward and played his part in the Kilkenny win.
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Followed by Pottle, the burly Customs agent was already descending the stairway, pausing only to retrieve his bass plug box.
INCA GOLD
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One of the things that serves as a brief respite from the hurly-burly is the attempts some people will go to to advertise their product.
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As I often point out, I appreciate how difficult it is to choose words carefully in the hurly-burly of live commentary, but I feel Clive would give himself more chance if he were to pause for breath once in a while.
Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner
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The man beside me, a burly, smelly man with a grizzly black beard and a mole on his nose, was looking at me strangely.
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When the ball did reach him, he was constantly buffeted by the Faroes' burly rearguard and struggled to make it stick.
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Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard.
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And he halted, in unfeigned respect for the burly and impressive figure, garbed in blue and brass, helmeted and truncheoned, bull's-eye shining on breast like the
The Black Bag
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There's the burly athlete whose pectoral development is matched only by his unyielding vanity.
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Not noted here is the hidden listing for “5 burly men with axe-handles, masks, and purchasable sense of discretion” ….
Kindle seeks ringers in game against iPad
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This was gained by descending again to the cellar, by surrendering the brass check to a burly doorkeeper, and by climbing a long flight of stairs into the upper regions.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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He enjoys the hurly-burly of political debate.
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When she edged in he was enacting the kindly burly pastor, an elbow on the corner of the parlor organ, two fingers playing with his massy watch-chain, his expression benevolent and amused.
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It just happens to be interrupted by moments in which lots of big, burly men hit each other.
The Sun
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Big Tom, the village boys called him; and well they might, for he was a staunch, burly fellow, who looked as if he could crush an Indian in each hand -- not that he had ever had an opportunity to perform that remarkable feat, for Tom Hennessy had but recently arrived from a large town in the East; but he _looked_ as if he could do it; and, therefore, had credit for any amount of prowess and strength.
Po-No-Kah An Indian Tale of Long Ago
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Youth coaching used to be about finding big, burly players who were good with their heads.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man who knows the answers to these and score of other questions arrived at the meeting 15 minutes after it was scheduled to begin, surrounded by a phalanx of burly minders.
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A burly security guard sat him back down and stood behind his chair.
Times, Sunday Times
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A lightning-fast, skilful and occasionally violent hurly-burly blur of whirring limbs and flailing, splintering timber in which all 30 players take to the field simultaneously armed with wooden clubs, hurling is not actually as dissimilar to cricket as you'd think.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
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Welcome aboard the _Yorkshire Lass_, mister," I was greeted by a great burly specimen of the British "shellback", as I stepped in over the rail.
The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn
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His orchestral scores are big and burly and full of notes, driven into their places by a formidable brain.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the man who actually meets me is big and burly with a short, military haircut.
Times, Sunday Times
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We wandered the narrow neon lit streets of Shinjuku, turning down offers of girls from burly bouncers, and sampling some of the numerous small bars to be found in this district.
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Here, there was a cadre of burly bouncers waiting for her, each of them large and muscular and very powerful.
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Clarke is a burly man who tends to grab the ball and go - more suited to the wing than midfield.
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Given the choice between death, amputation or a damn good beating, I would probably also elect to have the skin flayed off my back by a burly, sadistic mullah.
Sky News, Choudhary and Sharia Law
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Mike was a burly guy who played both ways in football as an end at Duke, and earned a spot on the All-Conference team as a receiver and place-kicker.
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A burly man who seemed to be all bristling black hair thumped Sam on the shoulder.
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The guard ushered me into the office of a burly fiftysomething man in a police uniform.
Times, Sunday Times
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She typically keeps away from the hurly burly of business and spends three days a week in Hisar constituency which she represents in the Haryana Legislative Assembly and where her late husband had begun his career five decades ago by setting up a bucket manufacturing unit.
India's Richest Woman Focuses On Public Life
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The burly prop forward, suddenly found himself at the tail of a line-out with the ball in his hands and he pinned back his ears and hared towards the line.
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She had hardly had a chance to finish her drink when she was manhandled by burly bouncers and unceremoniously dumped outside the door.
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Big and burly bouncers guard the entrance and are fusspots (a rarity in Valencia), so make sure you are dressed to kill.
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Behind Kellen, the burly armsman dressed in purple-and-maroon livery and bearing nothing more lethal than an ornamental halberd dripping purple-and-maroon ribbons shoved another man whose only crime was in being a little too tardy at clearing the path.
Tran Siberian
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He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.
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Big, burly men whose footballing ability arguably came as secondary to raw power.
The Sun
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The men tend to be big, burly and bearded.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Clamm tumbled out of the trap door and into the midst of the hurly-burly in the kitchen yard, the chickens assumed that reinforcements had arrived for the other side.
Clamm Moves « Unknowing
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Julian was watching a burly man with beard and sunburn make his way across the lobby.
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The burly man stared at him and took his arm, leading the young man across the street.
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And the native turned out to have a luncheon basket on his head so my heart rose, and by and bye a big fellow in khaki stravaiged out of the shades -- a jovial, burly Britisher called "Boots," -- told me he was hunting up the other fellows, and that they had got home late last night -- this about half an hour after time fixed -- so much for Indian punctuality hereaway!
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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He has remained largely aloof from the hurly - burly of parliamentary politics.
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Finnegans Wake
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Still in his physical prime, Kim was a burly man with a rolling walk and heavy-rimmed glasses.
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Amid the hurly-burly of network TV, it's almost unheard of for programmers to plan beyond their next season, let alone five years hence.
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He was big and burly, looking a bit like a barrel wearing a suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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The burly snarler from Croxteth is no longer a teenage prodigy.
What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
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The burly Contaldi looks more suited for flattening cornerbacks than roll casting with precision.
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The singer Donovan turned up with his friend, a burly bloke called Gypsy.
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The bank teller, a big burly man, asked him to wait for one more moment.
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But with two burly dogs giving us a chase, this seemed a remote possibility.
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Soloing over the burly stomp of a song called "Hurricane Season," the young New Orleans jazzman sounded as if he had captured an epileptic bumblebee in the space between his lips and the mouthpiece of his trumpet.
FreeFest: For LDC Soundgarden, a roaring (and swirling) success
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Rules of etiquette often don't apply to the hurly-burly of the social chapter of the online world.
Weblogs
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Women were warned that tops were required, much to the disappointment of practically everyone, so the prize for least dressed went to a burly fellow wearing a lime green, Borat-style "mankini".
Joe Antol: An Afternoon Boot Camp
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In the department of the Bas-Rhin, France, and not more than about two leagues north of Strasbourg, lived Antoine Delessert, who farmed, or intended farming, his own land -- about a ten-acre slice of 'national' property, which had fallen to him, nobody very well knew how, during the hurly-burly of the great Revolution.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
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Anyway, Gus was so exquisite he used not to take part in the rough hurly-burly of football matches, but would remain aloof in perfectly clean kit.
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Two were burly security guards and the third was the angry, truculent figure of Robert Holtzheim being escorted into a car.
COMPULSION
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He was burly with dark, weathered skin and a wide, square jaw.
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It will be evident to them that the actor made love luringly and died effectively, that he was capable of lyric reading and staccato gasconade, that he had a burly humor and that touch of sentiment that trembles into tears.
The Theory of the Theatre
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He seemed unsteady on his feet and shaken by the sudden presence of two burly police commandos, who kept a sweaty grip around his body.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the birds twitter in the winter air at dawn, a burly Iraqi grandmother in black makes bread in an open-air oven for an extended family of 20.
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Somehow, in all the hurly-burly, I missed this one.
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Fellow cosplayers also include the BLU spy, a short, stocky girl with a fake RED engineer mask; the BLU engineer, a soft-spoken burly man in his 20s and the RED engineer, a ranine old woman; the BLU sniper, a large, jolly woman from Australia, and the BLU Medic, a sweet, somewhat ageless lady from New Jersey with a very well-made costume.
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Within seconds he's surrounded by burly security guards.
The Sun
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Hereford's substitute Joe Colbeck sparkled on the right in his 20 minutes while Guillem Bauza, a Spanish stroller, rode the hurly-burly without complaint or as much effect as he might have created at a higher level.
Hereford fail to see the funny side as Barnet emerge with the points
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Only that can explain why he arrived armed with a burly minder, as well as a driver and attendant entourage.
Times, Sunday Times
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But cutting budgets is tough politics, which is why special commissions are at times called in to make recommendations away from the legislative hurly-burly.
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When the ship arrived at Irow, a burly sailor respectfully offered his hand to assist her off the gangplank.
