It was some years before Mr. Burgum applied to the College of Heralds to have his pedigree ratified, but when he did so he was informed that there had never been a de Bergham entitled to bear arms.
Mr. Burgum was completely taken in, and, exulting in his new-found dignity, acknowledged the announcement of his splendid birth with a present of five shillings.
Fasta het vs reden and buppa tha dura fon alle burgum is t in sten ut wryten: bist arg batsjochtig seide Fasta, bihod than jvwe nesta, bithjod than jvwe nesta, help than juwe nesta, sa skilun hja t thi witherdva.
Tha tha Trojana to tha heinda Krekalandum nestled weron, tha havon hja ther mith tid and flit ene sterke sted mith walla and burgum bvwed, Rome, that is Rum, heten.
Tha manniska ther to bek kemon, gvngon alle binna tha hringdika thera burgum hema, thrvchdam et ther buta al slyp and brokland were.
Ut thesse tocht is thju skydnese fon Wodin bern, sa-r vppa burgumwryten is and hir eskreven.
Is ther amman keren vmbe vppa burgum to thjanjande and nil-er navt, than ne mei-er na nen burchher wertha, and dus nen stem navt ni hava, is er al burchher sa skil hi thju er vrljasa.
Ecclesiam sancti Olavii in qua capud abbatiae in honorem sanctae Mariae melius constitutum est, et burgum in quo ecclesia sita est.
What would Burgum give to get a name And snatch the blundering dialect from shame?
Investigation satisfied Burgum fully, and in return for the discovery he gave the boy a crown-piece.
Burgum was completely taken in; and a thousand others who have since laughed at him would have been taken in too.
You may look on them, and realize to yourself precisely how Chatterton and his schoolfellows looked when he was busy there devouring books of history, poetry, and antiquities, and planning the Burgum pedigree, and the like.
Mr Burgum had been so pleased that he gave the boy, then scarcely fourteen years old, in Colston's School, five shillings.
The house where Burgum lived, and where Chatterton first tried his powers of deception, is the central one of the three seen above the bridge in our cut.
The delightedBurgum gave him a crown, and Chatterton, pocketing the money, lampooned his credulity thus: Gods!
Burgum give to get a name, And snatch his blundering dialect from shame?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burgum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
