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She generally has a bit snooze aboot this time efter her meal, ye ken but 'Dinna fash her aboot me, Uncle Purdie. 'Oh, but it it's necessary to get her doon here. She'll maybe be able to break I meant for to say Mr. Purdie stopped short and wiped perspiration from his face. 'Jist a meenute, he said abruptly, and bolted upstairs. Macgregor gazed after the retreating burly figure.
A burly policeman sweated behind him and seemed at every moment about to act. The catcalls and hisses and mocking cries ran in rude gusts round the hall from his scattered fellow students. A libel on Ireland! Made in Germany. Blasphemy! We never sold our faith! No Irish woman ever did it! We want no amateur atheists. We want no budding buddhists.
The colonel was then sedately writing amid a host of motionless mute watchers, for at Matocton most of the portraits hang in the East Drawing-room. Thus, above the great marble mantel, carved with thyrsi, and supported by proud deep-bosomed caryatides, you will find burly Sebastian Musgrave, "the Speaker," an all-overbearing man even on canvas.
On this being refused, he proceeded to force the entrance, and presented himself before the amazed inmate with quite a string of strong adjectives for the bad behaviour in not reciprocating his neighbourliness. "What are you lying there fretting your soul out for?" said the burly commander; "get up and come ashore with me and pull yourself together.
Theron knew this "debt-raiser," and had seen him at work a burly, bustling, vulgar man who took possession of the pulpit as if it were an auctioneer's block, and pursued the task of exciting liberality in the bosoms of the congregation by alternating prayer, anecdote, song, and cheap buffoonery in a manner truly sickening.
"A Clark Russell of an evening!" said Carter, stretching his golfing brogues to the blaze. "Don't you love a good drenching, downpouring night? I do!" He was a burly full-blooded blond, extravagantly facetious in convivial moments, and a mournful brooder in solitude.
After this, although young Sitting Bull counted many coups, he practiced making medicine until he gained much reputation as a future-teller. He openly hated the whites. His hate was as deep as that of O-pe-chancan-ough, the Pamunkey. He grew to be a burly, stout man, with light brown hair and complexion, a grim heavy face pitted by small-pox, and two shrewd, blood-shot eyes.
We can see him as he then was, in his boots and buckskins, his blue coat and waistcoat striped with buff and blue, like a farmer in his Sunday best; the heavy ploughman's figure firmly planted on its burly legs; his face full of sense and shrewdness, and with a somewhat melancholy air of thought, and his large dark eye "literally glowing" as he spoke.
As he did so the German wireless operator stirred in his sleep, lifted his head and gazed full upon the American youth. With a snarl of rage and a muttered curse the burly Teuton sprang to his feet and reached for a heavy revolver that lay on the table. But Jack was too quick for him.
Last of all came a burly islander, holding over his head a wooden trencher, in which lay disposed the remnants of our midnight feast, hidden from view, however, by a covering of bread-fruit leaves. Astonished as I was at this exhibition, I could not avoid smiling at its grotesque appearance, and the associations it naturally called up.
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