Fronting that monotonous but pregnant music by the drummers of the regiment still unseen, the people of the burgh waited whispering, afraid like the Paymaster's boy to shatter the charm of that delightful terror.
Earth slumbered, and the heavens above, when Fafnir's bane her burgh first saw.
There the gate-wards of the lofty burgh the latticed entrance opened, ere the court we entered.
Then was conflict waged with the Walish sword, and the burgh taken which Brynhild owned.
He was a member of the General Assembly of Glasgow 1638, being returned by the burgh of Kirkcudbright, of which he was then Provost.
The Tron Kirk or Ladye College was on the north side of the Clyde, and within the burgh of Glasgow, so that we have here proof that lepers in 1528 were not forbidden to enter the burgh.
And gif he hes na thing to liue upon, the burgesses of that burghsall make ane collection amongst them, for meat and claith to him; and that collection sall be the summe of twentie shillinges.
Prestwick of 1470 to have had assigned her a very small fragment of the burgh lands only, viz.
The date of this collection, or probably re-collection of the burgh laws, is 1470.
See the Maitland Club Burgh Records of Glasgow, p.
See Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, edited by my friend Mr. John Stuart, and published by the Spalding Club.
In High Street may be seen the noble hall and truncated fabric of the Maison Dieu founded by Hubert de Burgh in the 13th century for the reception of pilgrims of all nations.
Dornoch became a royal burgh in 1628, and, as one of the Wick burghs, returns a member to parliament.
At theburgh school of his native town, he received an ordinary elementary education, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr Cockburn, bookseller in Anstruther.
His sarcastic wit was an object of dread to his opponents in burgh politics.
My name is Captain de Burgh Smith--never moind yours, my fine faellow.
He sprang forward; and putting his face close to the wayfarer, thought to recognise the features of Captain de Burgh Smith.
At that moment Captain de Burgh Smith, mounted on the brown mare, stopped Philip.
Philip looked up from his hoard, and Captain de Burgh Smith stood before him.
The Sheriff has jurisdiction over a County and may sit both as judge and jury; that is to say, he may try cases summarily; but his Court differs materially, even when he is doing so, from that of the Burgh Magistrate.
In the Court the Burgh Procurator-Fiscal may prosecute, or his depute may act for him.
Aberdeen is one of the oldest towns in Scotland, and was constituted a royal burgh by William the Lion in 1179.
In 1894 the ratepayers resolved to adopt the Burgh Police Act, and the affairs and management of the town are now entrusted to Police Commissioners.
No burgh register existed, and the instruments were somewhat anomalously recorded in the Particular Register of Sasines.
Auchterarder being the only Royal Burghin Strathearn, was the head burgh of that County Palatine and the seat of a Sheriffdom, the area of which was probably co-extensive with Strathearn.
As a Royal Burgh of the foundation of Malcolm Canmore, perhaps Auchterarder was entitled to claim the premier rank.
Burgh of Auchterarder in the account of the Great Chamberlain for 1366 as being in arrear of the contribution for payment of the King's ransom, being due the sum of thirty-one shillings.
Hubert de Burgh stood near Prince Arthur, a smoking iron in his hand.
It was now that Hubert deBurgh bestirred himself as if he could no longer bear to be alone with his thoughts.
Hubert de Burgh took no further notice of them, but dropped into a chair and stared straight before him.
I don't know how men of your breed go about a task like this, but Hubert de Burgh has always faced the truth.
A moment, and then Hubert deBurgh re-entered the room.
He regarded Hubert deBurgh with dull eyes which slowly began to brighten.
Hubert de Burgh (for the soldierly-appearing man was he) turned upon them fiercely.
Kent; where euerie tithing is moreouer named a burgh or burrow, although that in the West countrie he be still called a tithing man, and his circuit a tithing, as I haue heard at large.
After this it goeth to Frethorpe, and aboue Burgh castell meeteth with the [Sidenote: Wauen.
In the parliamentary burgh of Cromarty an almost similar experiment was made.
All may learn from history how it was that Bailie Weezle earned his municipal honours during the ancient state of things in the famous burgh of Gudetown.
The available votes of the burgh were opposed to those of their pseudo-representatives in the proportion of nearly six to one.
But, to judge by the illuminations in the manuscript of Matthew Paris, the ships of Hubert de Burgh did not differ in any essential particular of construction from those of Saint Olaf or Canute.
But the intention of Hubert de Burgh was incomparably more courageous and more effective.
Hubert de Burgh saw that the one effectual way of preventing Eustace from doing harm on shore was to beat him at sea before he could land.
Burgh Castle in Suffolk, where there was a Roman fortress, Garianonum.
Jedburgh was made a royal burgh in the reign of David I.
It was rebuilt about 966, and in less than a century had become so wealthy that in the days of Abbot Leofric, a great benefactor, it was called the golden burgh of Peter.
Early, too, it became the seat of kings; and the Castle, and the little burgh upon the slope behind, have witnessed many a stirring sight.
Though one would hardly guess it, looking at the clean streets and handsome hotels and villas that line the shore, North Berwick is a burgh and port of great antiquity.
More than once the burghhas been a spot favoured by trade, as well as by history.
The old burgh of Kinghorn is at one extremity, and the still more ancient town of Dysart at the other; and the middle foreground is largely occupied by the houses and shipping of the "Lang Toun.
His 'pension' as one of the assessors of the burgh was £12 (sterling).
In the afternoon the traffic on the highway had ceased, for the burgh now held all of that wide neighbourhood that had leisure, or any excuse of business to transact in the place where a great event was happening.
He was positively vexed when he encountered Mungo, and that functionary informed him that, though he was early afoot, the Baron was earlier still, and off to the burgh to arrange for his new lodgings.
I declare I saw my dear Baron and his daughter immured in some pestilent Lowland burgh town, moping mountain creatures among narrow streets, in dreary tenements, with glimpse of neither sea nor tree to compensate them for pleasures lost.
When he had finished his game with his host, and the latter had pleaded business in the burghas an excuse for his absence in the afternoon, Count Victor went round Doom on every side trying to read its mystery.
In the third round, he met Dan Burgh of Crookdale-hall; and in the fourth, Thomas Miller of Crookdykes.
The Nether Bow, which was not built till 1616, was the chief entrance of the city, separating it from the Burgh of Canongate.
In 1799, it seems, Mr. Smith, a councillor of Edinburgh, electrified the city by a pamphlet in which he showed that the burgh was bankrupt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgh" 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; town; township
