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Burgoyne

[ US /bɝˈɡɔɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. British general in the American Revolution who captured Fort Ticonderoga but lost the battle of Saratoga in 1777 (1722-1792)

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  • Roll the head up, stitch it together and braize it in half a tumbler of Malmsey or Australian Muscat (Burgoyne's), half a cup of very good white stock, some bits of ham and bacon, and a clove of garlic with two cuts. The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes
  • Burgoyne RD, Neher E (1999) Early requirement for alpha-SNAP and NSF in the secretory cascade in chromaffin cells. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Bishop Fenelon, a contemporary of Louis XIV, was an eminent and great philosopher, a critic of government, and tutor to the Duke of Burgoyne, heir to the French throne.
  • Hilda is Irish, -- the Burgoynes have been stage people for generations, -- and she has the Alexander's Bridge
  • Burgoyne RD (1995) A role for soluble NSF attachment proteins (SNAPs) in regulated exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • General Burgoyne, in _The Heiress_, makes Lady Emily tell Miss Alscrip that the magic words are “nimini pimini;” and that if she will stand before her mirror and pronounce these words repeatedly, she cannot fail to give her lips that happy plie which is known as the “Paphian mimp.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
  • `Arrived in time to surrender at Saratoga with General Johnny Burgoyne. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
  • On the surrender of John Burgoyne 's British army to US general Horatio Gates on 17 October 1777, that officer dispatched an aide to convey the news to Congress.
  • Ted Burgoyne was afflicted with a dreadful lisp, on account of a hare-lip, so that as the boys used to say if offered a fortune he could get no closer to the real thing when dared than to say "thoft thoap. Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails
  • On the surrender of John Burgoyne 's British army to US general Horatio Gates on 17 October 1777, that officer dispatched an aide to convey the news to Congress.
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