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Example sentences for "biggin"

Lexicographically close words:
bigg; bigge; bigged; bigger; biggest; bigging; biggish; biggit; biggity; bighorn
  1. Your biggin is na broken, sir, Nor is your towers won; But the fairest lady in a' the lan For you this day maun burn.

  2. She says, Ye're thief or bauld robber, Or biggin come to burn or brake; Or are you ony masterfu man, That is come seeking ony make?

  3. For seventeen of the twenty miles the two lines were scarcely more than a stone's throw apart, and when Biggin joined him at the junction above Carbonate he had his note-book well filled with the necessary data.

  4. The young lady is his niece," said Winton, wishing that Mr. Biggin would find other food for comment.

  5. Winton was in the thick of the pick-and-shovel melee, urging it on, when Biggin ran up.

  6. And when Biggin had obeyed his instructions: "Now for a back way out of this, if there is one.

  7. Hence, if a fierce scowl and a wordless oath could maim, it is to be feared that the overzealous Mr. Biggin would have been physically disqualified on the spot.

  8. Whereat Biggin shouldered his way into the circle.

  9. Biggin held his peace until they were safe from immediate danger of pursuit.

  10. The sheriff ignored Peter Biggin as a person who could be argued with at leisure and turned to Winton.

  11. Not to miss his opportunity, at the first curve beyond Argentine he passed his cigar-case to Biggin and asked permission to ride on the rear platform of the day-coach for inspection purposes.

  12. Whereupon Mr. Peter Biggin rose up and sent a bullet to plow a little furrow in the ice within an inch of Deckert's heels.

  13. But now that side of Mr. Peter Biggin which endears him and his kind to every man who has ever shared his lonely round-ups, or broken bread with him in his comfortless shack, came uppermost.

  14. Now all this time Winton had been holding the unopened telegram crumpled in his fist, but when Biggin pushed him out of the circle and thrust him up to the clerk's desk, he bethought him to read the message.

  15. Your news has put me in a fever," continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer.

  16. Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.

  17. The French coffee biggin is valuable for this.

  18. Between this and Fen Ditton is an ancient building, now used for farm purposes, which the Ordnance Map marks as "Biggin Abbey.

  19. Biggin Creek is one of many streams which empty into Cooper river.

  20. The post at Biggin consisted of a redoubt at Monk's Corner, and the church, about a mile distant, near Biggin Bridge.

  21. Mrs. Pasmer was seated behind her coffee biggin at the breakfast-table when he came into the room with Alice, and she lifted an eye from its glass bulb long enough to catch his flying glance of exultation and admonition.

  22. Did you always make coffee with a biggin in France, Mrs. Pasmer?

  23. I didn't know if he had ever before come to Ayr; but I did know that his first home on our own island of Dhrum must have been much like this--just a clay biggin with a but and a ben.

  24. How little the poor couple guessed that the baby born "in thunder, lightning and in rain" would make of the clay biggin a world's shrine, to be bought by the nation for four thousand pounds.

  25. Barry never entered the Riverdale Academy; but Bert Biggin did.

  26. It was proved that the nephew of the wild Harry Biggin had a proper name of his own.

  27. I am hoping to-night to catch Harry Biggin and make him talk plainly.

  28. And Biggin was never really a member of Steinforth’s gang.

  29. The doctor kindly went with him to the hospital at Compton, and aided in the operation that gave Bert Biggin the proper use of his tongue.

  30. Well, when the Federal officers got close on the trail of the outlaws they hid the plates and other things I mentioned, and sort of left Biggin in charge of the camp.

  31. Sheriff Kimball says that doubtless referred to the evidence Harry Biggin meant him to have.

  32. They seemed as eagerly desirous of covering the distance to the Biggin farm in a short time as their master.

  33. When steam appears, take the biggin from the fire and pour the water into a cup and thence immediately into the top of the biggin where it will extract the berry by replacement.

  34. The coffee biggin still retains its popularity in England.

  35. The best coffee pot was found to be the common biggin having an upper compartment with a perforated bottom upon which to place the coffee.

  36. About the year 1817, the coffee biggin appeared in England.

  37. L]--The coffee biggin (said to have been invented by a man named Biggin) comes into common use in England.

  38. The coffee biggin with which Americans are most familiar is a pot containing a flannel bag or a cylindrical wire strainer to hold the ground coffee through which the boiling water is poured.

  39. Nothing occurred of any consequence except our soldiers coming in continually, until the 24th, when we heard that there was fighting down at Biggin Church.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biggin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.