Chesapeake, and what was done to Barron for surrendering her to the Leopard, and whether Burr ever tried again,--and he ground his teeth with the only passion he showed.
What Burr meant to do I know no more than you, dear reader.
This time Burr came down the river, not as an attorney seeking a place for his office, but as a disguised conqueror.
Burr had not been at the fort an hour before he sent for him.
But it was voted, rightly enough, that to do this would be virtually to reveal to him what had happened, or, as Harry Cole said, to make him think Old Burr had succeeded.
There is a story that Nolan metBurr once on one of our vessels, when a party of Americans came on board in the Mediterranean.
At least, I judge they were not, for this Barlow and this Burr had cobbling charges against them as late as 1840, when the intriguing Aaron and the gifted Joel no longer needed earthly repairs.
Nevertheless, they were of the same families, for Joel Barlow, the poet, was born just over the hill from us, and the name of Aaron Burr was known in Connecticut long before it found doubtful distinction in New Jersey.
We must have shearing over by October, or all this clover-burr that I see about will be in the wool, and out of your pocket to the tune of about threepence a pound.
He liked to burr those r's in 'down-east' fashion.
Nearly all the British bird-voices have more of a burr in them than ours have.
As the American Review said, Burr had planted in the lower Mississippi valley the seeds of ambition for southern conquest, and the soil proved very fit for their germination and growth.
It is also further proposed that the following list of articles shall be mutually free:-- Burr Millstones, unwrought.
He was also summoned and served in the arrest of Aaron Burrabove Natchez about 1807; he said it was so cold in February that in handling oars of the skiff the blood poured from the tips of his fingers.
He represented Aaron Burr as remarkably polite, genteel, urbane, good looking, though small, and as having eyes whose glance was most penetrating and fascinating.
Was that his girl--that tight little gray burr half hidden in the huge stallion's flaming mane?
Like a burr Lucy stuck low over his neck, a part of the horse, and so light he would not have known he was carrying her but for the repeated calls in his ears.
Lucy Bostil was a slip of a girl, born on a horse, as strong and supple as an Indian, and she could ride like a burr sticking in a horse's mane.
This time Burr came down the river, not as an attorney seeking a place for his office, but as a disguised conquerer.
Burdock-Burr Game Besides making things of burdock-burrs, you can play a game with them.
Hold the burr this way when you throw it at the target.
Suppose one burrsticks to the space numbered 2, and the two others are in number 1, the player would then have two ones and one two which, added together, make four; her score then would be four.
As this was a bailable offense, however, Burr was soon at liberty once more.
Whether Burr made any attempt to render the expected quid pro quo for these favors does not appear, but at least if he did, his efforts were fruitless.
Nobody was charging Burr with any sort of treason except that which is specifically defined by the Constitution itself, namely, the levying of war against the United States.
Had Burr been convicted, the advantage must all have gone to the Administration.
It was obviously impossible to impeach the Chief Justice for having prevented the hanging of Aaron Burr on the testimony of such a miscreant.
If their [the judges] protection of Burr produces this amendment, it will do more good than his condemnation would have done.
Eaton was followed on the stand by Commodore Truxton, who stated that in conversation with him Burr had seemed to be aiming only at an expedition against Mexico.
The proceedings against Burr occupied altogether some seven months, during which the sleepy little town of Richmond became the cynosure of all eyes.
Shortly thereafter the following verdict was returned: "We of the jury say that Aaron Burris not proved to be guilty under this indictment by any evidence submitted to us.
Though the years immediately following the Burr trial were not a time of conspicuous activity for Marshall, they paved the way in more than one direction for his later achievement.
Yet whether Burr actually planned treason against the United States in the year of grace 1806 is after all a question of somewhat restricted importance.
On the day following the reading of Marshall's opinion, the prosecution, unable to produce two witnesses who had actually SEEN Burr procure the assemblage on the island, abandoned the case to the jury.
In elaboration of this last point Wirt launched forth upon that famous passage in which he contrasted Burr and the pathetic victim of his conspiracy: "Who [he asked] is Blennerhassett?
Burr had heretofore found himself vested with the role of Lucifer in the Republican Paradise.
It was as big as any burr in de large mills, but it was turned by hand power.
But it was voted rightly enough, that to do this would be virtually to reveal to him what had happened, or, as Harry Cole said, to make him think old Burr had succeeded.
The growing of burr clover exercises a beneficial influence on the land.
These include the small white, the yellow, the Japan, burrclover and sweet clover.
These crops include cow peas, soy beans, crimson clover, and to a limited extent, burr clover.
At the Louisiana Experiment Station it was found that the burr clover remained long enough and grew large enough to injure the Bermuda.
Japan and burr clover grow best south of parallel 37° and east of longitude 98°.
Burr clover grows chiefly during the winter, and is at its best for pasture during the months of March and April, and in the Gulf States dies down after having produced seed in May.
Usually, burr clover is allowed to re-seed itself after it has once become established in the soil.
Burr clover may properly be termed a winter annual, since the seed comes up in the autumn, furnishes grazing in the winter and spring, and dies with the advent of summer.
Burr clover is also sometimes sown in corn and cotton to provide winter grazing, but when thus sown the object more frequently sought is to enrich the land.
For Canada, burr clover has no mission, owing to the sternness of the winter climate in that country.
After its introduction into the United States, seedsmen sell California and Southern burr clover as two varieties, but the correctness of the distinction thus made has been questioned.
When seed separate from the burr is used, it is sown in the months named.
Burr clover is said to be native to Europe and North Africa, but not to North America, although it has shown high adaptation in adapting itself to conditions as found in the latter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burr" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
