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Example sentences for "boreen"

Lexicographically close words:
bore; boreal; borealis; bored; boredom; boren; borer; borers; bores; boresome
  1. One night I saw the dog myself, in the boreen near my house.

  2. That dog I met in the boreen at Ballinamantane, he was the size of a calf, and black, and his paws the size of I don't know what.

  3. I never saw anything myself, but one night I was passing the boreen near Kinvara, and a tall man with a tall hat and a long coat came out of it.

  4. The devil a one of me can see anything or any one, except a fox scampering through the boreen beyond, with a water hen in his mouth," said Micus.

  5. And then he filled a new clay pipe, that came all the way from France, and was presented to him by his youngest granddaughter, as a birthday gift, and sauntered along the boreen towards the Valley of the Dead.

  6. And how he caught a hold of the tail of his coat and dragged him from Owen Roe's Cross to Cuchulain's Boreen while the soldiers of England's king were scouring the highways looking for some one to hang to the nearest finger post.

  7. And didn't yourself tell me," she proceeded, "that that same lonesome boreen is a common walk at night wid Master Harry?

  8. At the boreen that turned up to the white house they parted with a hand-clasp that said their love was unchanging, no matter what happened.

  9. It was so overgrown with weeds and thistles, and so strewn with big boulders, that it was more like a boreen than decent fields.

  10. He turned his back upon the cabin near the boreen and looked up to the belt of beech trees swaying in the wind on the crest of the hill.

  11. At the end of the boreen you will come to a shallow river, and it having a shingle bottom.

  12. He turned up the boreen closed in by the still hedges.

  13. I was singularly pleased when I turned up the boreen at last to this cottage where I lodge, an looked down through a narrow gully to Dingle Bay.

  14. Our way led through a steep boreen for a quarter of a mile to the edge of the sea, and then along a pathway between the cliffs and a straight grassy hill.

  15. By the light I saw a little farmhouse up a boreen off the road.

  16. Into the hall came Tim Murphy, the road-contractor and small farmer, who lived up a boreen from the bog.

  17. Follow this road until you come to a boreen on the side of your thumb-hand.

  18. It was approached by a broad and ragged boreen or mock avenue, as it might be called, that was in very good keeping with the premises to which it led.

  19. At length those who were engaged in the labor of the field departed in a cheerful group, and in a few minutes the noise of a horse's feet, evidently proceeding at a rapid trot, was heard coming up the boreen or avenue towards the house.

  20. At the ind o’ the boreen beyant the Corkschrew,’ says the king, very short.

  21. He was within a few yards of the boreen leading up to O'Kelly's farm house, when he caught sight of Nora.

  22. Riding by the boreen leading up to her father's house in the twilight of an April evening he caught a glimpse of two figures moving up the boreen close together.

  23. And Larry and Nora went down the boreen together.

  24. With a final graceful wave of her hand, and shooting a Parthian glance from her dark eyes that went with unerring aim to Grierson's heart, she urged her pony forward, and rounding a bend of the boreen was quickly lost to view.

  25. The pony had come down a boreen leading to the river--to a watering place and knew what he was about.

  26. I saw him then galloping down the boreen for dear life, coat-tails flying, hair streaming, terror in his big white face.

  27. And the Tinkers that was settled this long while in the boreen at the back of his haggard is quit out of it afore daylight this mornin', every rogue of them.

  28. You can go down that little boreen to the left,' he says; 'there's a little cabin there that belongs to some poor fellow or other.

  29. M'Cormick, who knew the path well, turned off the road into a pathway that ran inside the hedge and along the fields, but parallel with the muddy boreen in question.

  30. When he had got over about half the boreen he was accosted in the significant terms of the Ribbon password of that day.

  31. An awkward boreen will climb to that holding, and if one goes there one may find a typical tall spare countryman, bright of eye and sharp of feature, housing in his impoverished cottage a large brood of children.

  32. And who is there, except perhaps Jamesy Doyle, who would not pity them as they rumbled their melancholy way down the boreen to the road?

  33. Jamesy Doyle with four policemen were seen hurrying up the boreen from the lower road.

  34. Jamesy Doyle was the very fellow to make no mistake, and to do as he was bid; and sure enough there he was now, coming up the boreen with everything as correct as possible.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boreen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.