Burns
[bɜːnz] or [bɝn]
Definition
(noun.) celebrated Scottish poet (1759-1796).
(noun.) United States comedian and film actor (1896-1996).
Typed by Cedric--From WordNet
Unserious Contents or Definition
Burns stand for tidings of good. To burn your hand in a clear and flowing fire, denotes purity of purpose and the approbation of friends. To burn your feet in walking through coals, or beds of fire, denotes your ability to accomplish any endeavor, however impossible it may be to others. Your usual good health will remain with you, but, if you are overcome in the fire, it represents that your interests will suffer through treachery of supposed friends.
Typist: Norton
Examples
- Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It is so tormenting, so racking, and it burns away our strength with its flame. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Burns made no answer: I wondered at her silence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Give me that, Robert Jordan told the girl, and pour him some of that which burns. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is a nice room, said I, and the fire burns cheerfully. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, anyhow. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- When the hard, gray crystals of calcium carbide are put in water, they give off acetylene, a colorless gas which burns with a brilliant white flame. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Iron, for example, burns when it rusts, because it slowly combines with the oxygen of the air and is transformed into new substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And cross and cruel, I added; but Helen Burns would not admit my addition: she kept silence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Pure hydrogen gas burns with a pale blue flame that gives scarcely any light, though it possesses intense heating power. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Robert Burns was right when he preferred poetry to charters. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Miss Temple told Helen Burns to be seated in a low arm-chair on one side of the hearth, and herself taking another, she called me to her side. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nor have I been debarred, Though seas between us braid ha' roared, (BURNS) from participating in the intellectual feasts he has spread before us. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My tongue burns to tell your uncle that he and Sir Percival are not to have it all their own way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That they fire with much rapidity and become so hot the barrel burns the hand that touches it, the gypsy said proudly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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