Legionnaire Malvin returned to the dense ring of labouring perspiring washers, and edged in behind a gigantic German and a short, broad, burly Alsatian, capitalists as joint proprietors of a fine cake of soap.
With that a burly waiter bore into the room an immense pie, and placed it before Harry to carve.
But just as I was in the middle of my first trick, there was a commotion on the outskirts of the crowd, people jostling and shoving, pushing and being pushed, and a moment or two later four burly nigger minstrels burst through to where I was.
And now the burly and broad-shouldered host of all these people called on them to unanimously forgive the minister for the injury he had unintentionally done them in the morning.
I call this very shabby treatment," his burlyand good-humored host said, as he stood at the open door.
Ruddy of cheek, a burly figure in his academic gown, without a scrap of notes and armed only with an old volume of Rabelais in the medieval French, he held us spellbound for an hour and a half--or was it three hours?
He is a burly and bonny dominie, and his congregation rarely miss the point of the sermon.
Without more words, the burly priest seized the recalcitrant and grabbed him by the neck, trying to force him into the confession-box.
The bonnet went nodding away, and the burly Jim dragged Juliet along faster than she could walk, and almost as fast as she could run.
Rowles rose from his chair, and took his burly figure out into the garden-plot which lay between the cottage and the lock.
He was a burly black spectre in the skin-tight suit.
The vague outline of De Boer came toward me in the corridor, burly dark blob.
And although this burly rover is not our little bee of the hive, but his saucy, sonsy country-cousin, the song of the one is scarcely sweeter than that of the other, while they blend into rarest unison.
And how the burly speech and rugged bluntness characteristic of the old philosopher are softened and atoned for, to my thinking, when he adds, "These relics of veneration always produce some mournful pleasure.
While Black and his friend Jerry were observing Orpin, as he conversed with the brothers Skyd, the tallburly Englishman from whose shoulders the former had been hurled into the sea, chanced to pass, and quietly grasped the Scot by the arm.
There were we two riding up and down the glade with three burly Cossacks at our heels, and devil of a wall against which we might set our backs.
No cries of savage exultation now; no talk of justice and penalty--nothing but a mad race for the shelter of the farm and all the hurly-burly of a wild pursuit.
I had said as much when a figure pressed out of the hurly-burly and I knew it for that of a Cossack.
Hundreds became his devoted followers, and I fear the burly high priest's influence decreased in proportion.
Somewhat before noon on the following day the tall, burly figure of a man, who wore a dress of red cotton cloth, advanced slowly over the short turfy sward which lay beneath some huge adansonia trees in the fort.
Skillfully parrying the blows directed at his life, he had laid more than one burly savage low.
The mate made a warning gesture and turned away, just as Mr. Rucker thrust his bushy beard down the fore hatch, preceded by his burly legs and body.
Mrs. Granger tripped up the path and followed the burly form of her husband through the door.
A shock of horror overcame Kenric as he saw two burly Gallwegians in their wanton fury raise each a small child upon the point of his spear, and shake the spear until the child, pierced through the body, fell down to his hands.
Our beasts of the chase are burly men, and our hunting ground is the wide ocean.
Two burly guards were assigned to them, and the guards were taking their job seriously.
A burly guard was holding his good arm behind his back.
Merrill Tawney walked into the room, with two burly guards behind him.
Here is a burly hulk, moored in the swinging tide.
The Lower River is like a burly man, who urges his way through his career with a sense of strength, with a disdain of obstacle, with a brutal persistence that keep up the masculine character.
Here the retired statesman, away from the hurly-burly of politics, meditated on horticulture and indited epistles, while King James was vainly grasping at a tyranny, and the Prince of Orange was marching eastward from Torbay.
The sight of the burlyform of his nephew, and his stern and menacing countenance, once more made him quail.
With a hoarse cry like that of an animal deprived of its young, his uncle sprang upon him, and fastened his clawlike nails in the face of his burly nephew.
A burly figure stood blocking the stairway beneath, and a ruddy face gleamed upward like a moon out of a mist, as Maisie held the lamp aloft.
And through the press were thrust the burly shoulders of Sergeant Davie Dunbar and two of his comrades.
But all Jennie could say was that he was a big, burly fellow with a long, long nose.
Not so a heavy-set, burly looking man who was tramping along the half-beaten path just as Nan and her chums dashed down the hill on the bobsled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
