Burns obeyed: I looked at her narrowly as she emerged from the book-closet; she was just putting back her handkerchief into her pocket, and the trace of a tear glistened on her thin cheek.
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.
It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her last days in this world, and that she was going to be taken to the region of spirits, if such region there were.
And cross and cruel," I added; but Helen Burns would not admit my addition: she kept silence.
Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.
Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
In her turn, Helen Burns asked me to explain, and I proceeded forthwith to pour out, in my own way, the tale of my sufferings and resentments.
Yet at that moment Helen Burns wore on her arm "the untidy badge;" scarcely an hour ago I had heard her condemned by Miss Scatcherd to a dinner of bread and water on the morrow because she had blotted an exercise in copying it out.
Still I felt that Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to my eyes.
The memory of them, at this moment, affects me like the song of birds, and Burns crooning some verses, simple and wild, in accordance with their native melody.
Leaving the cottage, we drove through a field, which the driver told us was that in which Burns turned up the mouse's nest.
Connecting with it, there is a very small room, or windowed closet, which Burns used as a study; and the bedchamber itself was the one where he slept in his later lifetime, and in which he died at last.
In the centre of the room stood a glass case, in which were reposited the two volumes of the little Pocket Bible that Burns gave to Highland Mary, when they pledged their troth to one another.
Displayed against the surrounding wall is a marble statue of Burns at the plough, with the Genius of Caledonia summoning the ploughman to turn poet.
The town of Mauchline, a place more redolent of Burns than almost any other, consists of a street or two of contiguous cottages, mostly whitewashed, and with thatched roofs.
By and by we came to the spot where Burnssaw Miss Alexander, the Lass of Ballochmyle.
On our way, at about two miles from Ayr, we drew up at a roadside cottage, on which was an inscription to the effect that Robert Burns was born within its walls.
Our driver pointed out the course taken by the Lass of Ballochmyle, through the shrubbery, to a rock on the banks of the Lugar, where it seems to be the tradition that Burns accosted her.
They slant us out from our own precincts, too,--from that inalienable possession which Burns bestowed in free gift upon mankind, by taking it from the actual earth and annexing it to the domain of imagination.
Burns has written hundreds of better things; but henceforth, for centuries, that maiden has free admittance into the dream-land of Beautiful Women, and she and all her race are famous.
Thereupon Surt flings fire over the earth, and burns up all the world.
The sun nearly burns up the earth, and the earth is saved amid the smoke of incense from the pipes of the old men--the gods.
Sigaun kaáyu ang langkay basta makagáay na, The dry coconut frond burns easily once it has become dry.
Ang bagtì nga káhuy maáyung isugnud kay sigaun, Bone-dry wood is good for fuel because it burns easily.
Ug mapugdaw ang sugnud, hipúsa ang abu ug paglihíya, When the fuelburns itself out, gather the ashes and make lye out of them.
It does not bite but secretes a clear yellow substance whichburns the skin and may blind the eyes.
Dì ku makamamà kay hálang, I can’t chew betel because it burns the tongue.
Before the sun burnswith red flames, before The white mists fall in swaths, the reeking inns Turn the unsteady revellers out of doors.
O frenzied forges with your noise and blaring, Red, reeking fires that comb dishevelled skies, Your hollow rumbling is like stifled swearing, And the grassed earth about you burns and dies.
Behold: consumed under the ruby shine In which its glory's arid flame exhausts itself, The chandelier is paling at the breath of Death, And burns its throes out in the face of the Sun.
Burns was not prudent, Byron was not; Johnson was not industrious for the pure sake and love of labour.
Some men have left lists of the works they studied--even Burns and Byron did.
In truth, captain, I confess that I should infinitely prefer the slightest tree, provided that its branches afforded us means to rest for a moment in their shadow, to a forced march with this great rogue of a sun who burns our bones.
He begged piteously for his life, but Mr. Doyle was inexorable; the foe who burns and robs must die, and he so informed him peremptorily.
An attempt to cross the fence burns her palm into crisp.
His most officious opponent was William Fisher, one of the elders of the church: and to revenge the insult to his friend, Burns made him the subject of this humorous ballad.
But a defiled mind acts like a fire, it burnsaway the good of one's self and one's neighbour.
Even when the immortal Burns came, to shame a selfish, undiscriminating, and ungrateful land, the Athens made not the slightest attempt to wash out the foul stain which she had given herself in the case of Ferguson.
It has not then acquired the black throat of spring; but two months later we have found it nesting on mountain-burns of the sierras--precisely such situations as it frequents among the Northumbrian moors.
The cold at night in camp was intense, and our Andalucian retainers complained bitterly, although they kept an enormous fire going; yet during the day the heat had been excessive, and the sunburns terribly at these altitudes.
This remarkable dish, which inspired the poet Burns with one of his best odes, shared the fate of all the good things in this world--it passed away like a dream.
A High King of Eire gave it to his daughter Who mothered generations of us, the kings of Britain; It has a spiritual influence; its heart Burns when it sees the sun .
When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place.
BURNS Includes township 33, range 25, and is in the northwestern part of the county.
It was part of the Company's beneficent plan for ameliorating the effects of even such tiny wars as the Naples-Sicily affair that those who suffered radiation burns got the best treatment possible.
The one below it, dated five weeks earlier, was for flash burns suffered in the explosion of a stove, causing the loss of the right forearm nearly to the elbow.
The deadly danger of radiation burns lay in their cumulative effect; the first symptoms were nothing, the man was well and able to walk about.
Less than 29 per cent of the land area of the United States is occupied by forests today, including swamps, burns and much land which will be devoted to agriculture.
They do not refuse him fire protection in the first place and then, if his plant burns down, threaten to burn it again and keep up full taxation on the vacant land.
Burns have been known to restock fully from seed blown from forested hills a mile or more away.
Possibly recurring burns swept the area many times before wind-blown seeds began to start advance groups of fir, which, when fifteen or twenty years old, themselves fruited and filled the blanks between them.
Everybody gathers round to watch which goes out first, as each lantern stands for a month, and the first that burns black means a month of rain.
When it has gone up a little distance, it bursts out into flame, and burns brightly until it falls to the ground.
It burns our towns; it leads people to risk their lives at railroad crossings and other places of danger; it takes chances with health; it is shown in all dirty streets, littered back yards, and untidy homes.
The contemplation of Mr Burns as knight-errant healed the sting of defeat.
In which, also, the future Mr Peter Burns is touched upon.
I don't say Mr Burns wished to kidnap the boy in the ordinary way,' said Sam imperturbably, 'like those men who came that night.
I have just been informing Mr Burns that Mr Ford has written asking me to allow his son to stay on at the school for the first few days of the vacation.
Perhaps Mr Burns can give us some information as to where the man went, sir,' suggested White.
Mr Burns and I will now take a turn up the drive while you think it over.
Mr Burns here will tell you, if you ask him, that I'm anxious to quit this business and marry and settle down.
Mr Burns was trying to get the boy away and take him back to his mother.
If there be naething else left for me noo, as Burns says-- 'Heaven be thankit!
When it boils and tosses in you, as in the mighty ocean, in my soul it burns deep and still.
Robbie Burnscud do't in sang efter sang; but maybe this epitaph was a' that auld Martin was able to mak'.
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