Its early rays gilded the crest of a forest about a league distant from St. Yrieix, a large burg that served as the center of the Protestant encampment.
The burg of St. Yrieix stood in the center of the staked-in camp occupied by the army of Admiral Coligny.
The group of mountains standing about midway between it and Burg are very noteworthy.
No cheap joint, but a high-toned dance hall in some burg where you can get a liquor license.
I tried to persuade him that the baron is no friend of priests, that he probably has one of them a prisoner in his burg at this moment, but because I could make no certain statements his mind was closed against me.
Some way beyond the forest we saw a group of men staring at the troop before the burg with faces that told more plainly than words that something tremendous must have awed all these people to the heart.
No sound was to be heard within or without the burg but the sounds of the winds.
At any rate, on a certain Sunday morning when the baron returned to the burg after this term of absence, he returned to learn that his girl had been hurt by Dees.
During one of these (in 1534) the Burg was burnt down, and his children were only rescued from their beds with difficulty.
Two misfortunes, however, visited Innsbruck during her reign: a terrible pestilence, and a destructive fire in which the Burg suffered severely, the beautiful chapel of Ferdinand II.
Since the exodus of the Reverend Burg he had held the pre-eminence.
I was riding to the Burg when I heard your shouts on the raft and I wondered what ill-witted fellow was running on a rising flood on a night like this.
Yonder is he in the burg which is nigh; and the name of him is Naisi, the son of Usnach.
It befell that Naisi was upon a certain day alone upon the rampart of the burg of Emain, and he sent his warrior-cry with music abroad: well did the musical cry ring out that was raised by the sons of Usnach.
Said Har: In the beginning he appointed rulers in a place in the middle of the burg which is called Idavold, who were to judge with him the disputes of men and decide the affairs of the burg.
So when he came into the burg he saw there a hall so high that he could hardly look over it.
You saw near my burg a mountain cloven at the top into three square dales, of which one was the deepest,--these were the dints made by your hammer.
Thus says Thjodolf of Hvin, that Valhal was thatched with shields: Thinking thatchers Thatched the roof; The beams of the burg Beamed with gold.
When there were three days left before summer, the work was all completed excepting the burg gate.
For this purpose they used the giant Ymer’s eyebrows, and they called the burg Midgard.
It is now time to get up and dress; but you have not far left to the burg that is called Utgard.
Toward the end of winter the burg was far built, and it was so high and strong that it could in nowise be taken.
I will again defend my burg with similar or other delusions, so that you will get no power over me.
Then they saw a burg standing on a plain, and it was so high that they had to bend their necks clear back before they could look over it.
Then he called to mind what he had seen from the Burg of the Runaways, and he took Folk-might by the arm, and pointed toward those far-off mountains.
Their own lair was clear to see over its bank and the bushes thereof, and that misliked Face-of-god, lest any foe should climb the burg that day.
So he turned away, angry and sad of heart, and the twain went down the burg and across the water to their camp, having seen little to tell of from the height.
Now by then the sun was fully up there was a great throng on the Portway, and this was the folk of the Burg on their way to the Weapon-mead.
So he sent the thrust of his spear crashing through the face and skull of the smiter, and looked not to him as he fell, but stood still, brandishing his spear and crying out, 'For the Burg and the Face!
Then for a little while was there such a stilling of the tumult about him there, that he heard great and glad cries from the Road of the South of 'The Burg and the Steer!
Listen, therefore, I pray you, to my suggestion: Let the burgpay me fair compensation for my wine.
It has never been played anywhere except in Berlin and in the great Burg Theatre in Vienna.
I think we must have a Burg in New York, and Burg scenery, and a great company like the Burg company.
I have just been witnessing a remarkable play, here at the Burg Theatre in Vienna.
In the North of Germany, the phrase burg und emmer is used in a similar sense, as denoting legal security.
BURG of ice, a whale-fisher's phrase for a field of ice floating in the sea, S.
And oft they fought against the burg of Lunden, but praise be to God, it yet stands sound, and they ever there fared evilly.
The rest of the burg spent many anxious hours speculating upon the probable location of Fairman’s residential quarters in the Hereafter.
That night all the giants disappeared, and in the morning Burg Niedeck stood in ruins.
Now there was a great castle, called Burg Niedeck, that stood on top of the highest mountain of Alsace, and here the most powerful of the giants lived with his wife and family.
But Burg Niedeck was very high and difficult to reach and no peasant had ever thought of trying to get there.
Have you not heard that as soon as a peasant comes to Burg Niedeck there will be an end of the giants forever?
Now, it was said that the first time a peasant found his way up intoBurg Niedeck it would be the end of the giants.
It is the first time in my life I ever failed,' she thought, as the pinnacles and towers of the burg were lost to her sight.
He found by the castle moat the lord of that burg and many of his folk with him; when he had dismounted on the turf he greeted them courteously, and the lord answered "God reward ye.
With a friendly greeting, Christina left them, while Burg stayed to help the boy to dress.
No rehearsal had been given, because Walter Burg had only arrived the very evening upon which the concert was to take place.
Burg now entered the room with his hat in his hand, and announced that the carriage was at the door.
The town musicians determined to play as well as they could, and if the notes came too thick and fast, young Burg might himself provide for getting on as well as possible without them.
Burg was standing in the neighborhood, and witnessed the comic manifestations of the excited tailor's joy with heartfelt sympathy.
Wearied by the unwonted excitement of the day, Christina went early to rest; while Burg opened a large book, and lighted another lamp, to await the arrival of Walter home.
Burg was anxious that Walter should adopt his own profession, so that when he became the inheritor of his property he might also inherit his artistic skill.
Burg determined to accompany his beloved son, upon his first entrance into the great world.
Twelve strokes slowly sounded upon the various clocks in the house, telling Burg it was already midnight.
Burg gazed inquiringly into the glowing face of the boy; it shone with intense excitement and proud joy.
The young artist had already earned fame and gold in many of the larger towns, and had made the name of Walter Burg widely and honorably known, when he came into the neighborhood of the scenes of his sad and deserted childhood.
But it was to the Burg that Sigismund, son of Duke Frederick of the Empty Purse, brought his bride Eleonora, daughter of James I.
I will go to St. Peters- burg at the earliest possible moment, obtain personal letters from the Tsar and proceed post haste to Rome and Madrid.
As long as I live here you stay--although when I reach St. Peters- burg I shall see that you receive every possible re- ward and honor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burg" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: borough; burg; city; metropolis; municipality; outskirts; polis; suburb; township
