How To Use Burnside In A Sentence
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R.L. Burnside sits on his plastic porch chair as calm and motionless as a stone Buddha, then his hand flashes out to swat a fly on his leg.
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Everyone but Lincoln had lost patience with McClellan's overcautiousness and when he failed to follow Lee's retreat from Antietam, Lincoln removed him and placed in command Burnside, whose defeat at
Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324
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Fighting has continued to this day, but General Burnside and his defeated Army of the Potomac have retreated across the Potomac.
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Through it all, the common thread is the ancient and blessed backbeat, the timeless cry of the bottleneck guitar, and R.L. Burnside's frequently voiced benediction, ‘Well, well, well…’
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CVX was one of my favorites, had Steve Burnside, one of the coolist charters in the series
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Then Melville himself came in, brushing back his white tufted burnsides and licking his lips and blinking his eyes -- looking for all the world like a cat at its toilet.
The Deluge
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The numinous is a reliably elusive theme for a writer, and Burnside hunts it down like an indefatigable lepidopterist.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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We climbed over the craggy outcrops of Cambro-Ordovician age Fort Burnside Formation and Jamestown Formation, crazily tilted beds of phyllite and slate and siltstone and stark white veins of calcite.
"Into a light that lingers."
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In the early morning of 11 December, Burnside's engineers began laying pontoon bridges.
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The wasteful Burnside-Couch traffic "couplet" is having a "groundbreaking" tomorrow afternoon -- at least, the east side section of it.
New money pit to open (Jack Bog's Blog)
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He cruised the streets of downtown Portland for a while, then headed out of town along Burnside.
WILD JUSTICE
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Burnside's guitar and vocals have been sampled and mixed with a beat, some overdubs and a verse and chorus from Kid Rock.
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The band is loose but swings, the production is appropriately rough and leaking like a sieve, and the song selection draws from Burnside favorites.
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Rather than being just a study in Scottish miserabilism Burnside's new book is a chilling display case of grotesques, shot through with a bleak and mordant humour.
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One of them, Ambrose Burnside, even gave rise to the term sideburns because of his elaborate whiskers.
The Day the Rabbi Wouldn't Shave
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Much of Burnside's work on hydrodynamics involved the use of complex variable and in papers of 1891 and 1892 he considered the group of linear fractional transformations of a complex variable.
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‘I sport no such flaming burnsides,’ the ingrate is alleged to have shrieked.
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This assertion is certainly legally disputable at the very least, and Burnside should know it.
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Burnside knew that he was unfitted to command an army, but was widely liked despite his failings.
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They were inhumed below the floor of the cave; _inhumed_, and not lodged in catacombs.] [Footnote 34: Letter to Samuel M. Burnside, in Trans. and Coll.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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Burnside City councillors in Adelaide are being escorted through council offices amid concerns over bullying.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here, rocks of the Cambro-Ordovician Conanicut Group, specifically interstratified beds of the Fort Burnside Formation and the older Jamestown Formation form great flat tables of phyllite and siltstone, metamorphosed to varying degrees.
"Don't let the Earth in me subside..."
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The defendant wore Burnside whiskers of tolerable length, say two or three inches long, of light sandy color.
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Take lamp soot and draw mustaches and burnsides on their faces, carry around unlit cigars and mimic the silly gestures men used in smoking them.
Cold Mountain
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Burnside retained the title, clocking a time of 7.50s with Dudgeon two metres down in 2nd place in 7.63s - bettering her own six-year-old best.
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There he turned to the right up a little burnside which led into a lirk in the hill, such as would on the border have been called a "hope.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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Sadly for Burnside, such hysterics are less impressive when introduced by a diarist who lacks the wit to spell check her ‘murmour’ ed offerings.
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Hone your haggling skills in Tunisia's markets and bazaars when you travel with Burnside Travel.
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Great bushy burnsides furzed out to his jawbone, and he peered from under the brim's shadow with dark eyes, the lids swollen and hooded as a raptor's.
Cold Mountain
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For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides.
Longfellow
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His shoulders were massive and square, his chin and mouth were square, his burnsides were square cut, and he had a square head and wore a square-topped derby.
By Advice of Counsel
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Burnside stands out from his peers; he's not a know-nothing writer but one with distinct theories about language and life.
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Burnside himself said that he did not cross because he had conflicting orders that told him to remain unengaged until specifically ordered otherwise.
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In person Burnside is a big, huffy, bear of a man and not what you expect a poet to look like.
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Burnside City councillors in Adelaide are being escorted through council offices amid concerns over bullying.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second time I went up to Burnside with my homie Pete.
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Burnside, who loved facial hair and from whom the word sideburns originated, was here briefly in 1865 when more than 30,000 Yankee soldiers poured into town at the end of the Civil War.
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These were popularly called burnsides, but the name later got twisted around to sideburns.
Undefined
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Since the mustache part of General Burnside's invention was nothing new, the cheek whiskers became known as ‘Burnsides’ and enjoyed a certain vogue among men of the day.
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The facial hair term "sideburns" is a variant of "burnsides," named for U.S. Army Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, who wore such facial whisker adornment.
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My home away from home for this getaway was 800 East Burnside, a hipster's paradise just over the river from downtown.
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This strange assortment of whiskers of different fashions on various parts of his face, imperial, goatee, burnsides, he brought back with him.
Walking-Stick Papers
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But as the memory of General Burnside faded, the style became known as simply ‘burnsides,’ and soon an interesting linguistic flip-flop occurred.
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Nobody cares a rap whether Saunders, middle-aged and unheroic bachelor, with his precise little "burnsides," won the heart of the pert Miss Pelham, precise in character if not always so in type.
The Man from Brodney's
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Burnside, at Cincinnati, have rivalled in insolence, brutality, and lawlessness any Dey of Algiers or Pacha of Asia Minor that was ever appointed by the most ruthless Sultan that ever reigned in
London: Saturday, September 19, 1863
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Like his uncle Henry M Olmsted, he also wore whiskers in the Burnside style, but he started out as a young man with a down turned mustache.
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During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln hired, then cashiered, Generals Scott, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade before settling on Grant.
