Burnside

How To Use Burnside In A Sentence

• Burnside, who loved facial hair and from whom the word sideburns originated, was here briefly in 1865 when more than 30,000 Yankee soldiers poured into town at the end of the Civil War. News & Record Article Feed
• There he turned to the right up a little burnside which led into a lirk in the hill, such as would on the border have been called a "hope. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
• Sadly for Burnside, such hysterics are less impressive when introduced by a diarist who lacks the wit to spell check her ‘murmour’ ed offerings.
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• Great bushy burnsides furzed out to his jawbone, and he peered from under the brim's shadow with dark eyes, the lids swollen and hooded as a raptor's. Cold Mountain
• For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides. Longfellow
• His shoulders were massive and square, his chin and mouth were square, his burnsides were square cut, and he had a square head and wore a square-topped derby. By Advice of Counsel
• Burnside stands out from his peers; he's not a know-nothing writer but one with distinct theories about language and life.
• Burnside himself said that he did not cross because he had conflicting orders that told him to remain unengaged until specifically ordered otherwise.
• In person Burnside is a big, huffy, bear of a man and not what you expect a poet to look like.