Primitive man, on Plutarch's theory, firmly believed that the fruits of the earth on which he subsisted were not themselves gods but merely the gifts of the gods, who were the real givers of all good things.
For each of them he crumbles a piece of bread, gives each of them a piece of pancake, pours koumiss and beer, and puts a spoonful of soup into a trough made for the purpose.
At that season there is food and to spare for the dead as well as the living.
For their fire they burne heath and turffe, the Countrey in most parts being voide of wood.
If the heate of the Sunne in the day time doe burne or parch any thing, the moysture of the night doeth coole and refresh the same againe, the Sunne being as long absent in the night, as it was present in the day.
For the which they haue wood to burne and timber very artificially carued, and corne, and cloth to make them apparell.
Now shew your fortitude, be God on earth, Marshall your men, giue eare vnto your Drum, And let your valour with the sunne being set, With the resplendancy burne Christendome.
For there huge Othos sits in sad distresse, Fast bound with serpents that him oft invades, Far of beholding Ephialtes tide, 375 Which once assai'd to burne this world so wide.
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delayd* by her hart-frosen cold, But that I burne much more in boyling sweat, And feele my flames augmented manifold?
And so, after diverse purposes, thei commanded him to burne his bill.
Yf ye will burne thame, lett thame be brunt in how sellarris; for the reik of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun hes infected as many as it blew upoun.
He will not suffer us to burne their bones, To urne their ashes, nor to take th' offence Of mortall loathsomenes from the blest eye Of holy Phoebus, but infects the windes With stench of our slaine Lords.
But Bellizarius, the brave Generall, will flame high and cleare like a Beacon; but your Puritane Eugenius will burne blew, blew like a white-bread sop in Aqua Vitae.
Go; burne that witch Who would dry up the tree of all Spaines Glories But that I purge her sorceries by fire: Troy lyes in Cinders; let your Oracles Now laugh at me if I have beene deceiv'd By their ridiculous riddles.
In Loves sweete fires let heat of rage burne out; These brows could never yet to wrinkle learne, Nor anger out of such faire eyes look forth.
This kindled fire burne in us, till as deaths slaves Our bodies pay their tributes to their graves.
Well, that fire Will prove a catching flame to burne his kingdome.
With all the love I can, whose fire is such, To give her heat, I cannot burne too much.
O rash and bold lampe, the vile ministery of love, how darest thou bee so bold as to burne the god of all fire?
Mr. Burne Jones particularly remembers how she laughed till the tears ran down her face in recalling her infantine enjoyment of the humor in the fable of Mercury and the Statue-seller.
Hast thou bathed in emanations from the canvass of Burne Jones?
Give me thy torch, boy:--I will run a tilt, 85 And burne out both her eyes in my encounter.
Was it not sufficient to behold the fire and warme thee, but with Satyrus thou must kisse the fire and burne thee?
By the masse, and she burne all, yoush beare the blame for mee!
Gyb in her tayle hath fyre, And is like toburne all, if shee get a lytle hier!
The better hee shadowes her face, the more will he burne his owne heart.
And I chafe it so hard that my fyngers krakks; And eke the smoke puttyth out my eyes two: I burne my face, and ray my clothys also, B iii 510 And yet I dare not say one word, And they syt laughyng yender at the bord.
Minstrel Burne is as regular as the Ormulum, and so, or very nearly as much, is the anonymous Irish poet of The Kerry Recruit.
Burne my reines and my heart; where burning, is put for repurging and cleansing, according to the Hebrew, and the Chaldee; and in the 13 of Zachary 9.
But it is strange that the Ceremonies of Paganisme, should be found in this respect, and many other in Mosaicall Traditions; Fire shall alwayes burne on the Altar; Lev.
And yet though the roses be red, yet the water of them distilled, and the fume if you burne them, are white, as those of incense, whereof it is spoken in Psal.
They shall burne unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her encrease, and set on fire the foundations of the Mountaines.
You shall burne no Leaven nor Honey in the Lords Sacrifice, Levit.
The Moore already changes with my poyson: Dangerous conceites, are in their Natures poysons, Which at the first are scarse found to distaste: But with a little acte vpon the blood, Burne like the Mines of Sulphure.
Oh, thou publicke Commoner, I should make very Forges of my cheekes, That would to Cynders burnevp Modestie, Did I but speake thy deedes.
The fine east window by Mr. Burne Jones, a native of Birmingham, is considered to be one of his most successful works.
The portraits of Mr. Burne Jones, the Marquis of Salisbury, and Lady Garvagh, recall to mind the best works of Reynolds and Gainsborough.
And for a light to burne before our Lady in the Whitefrers of Doncaster of my lord's foundation at mas-tyme daily xiijs.
At this time it was the practice at Guy's to examine the bodies after death; but permission was refused in the case in question, so that Burne was unable to say "whether the bowels were affected.
Stay Madam heere is more belongs to her, First thrash the Corne, then after burne the straw: This Minion stood vpon her chastity, Vpon her Nuptiall vow, her loyaltie.
If there be diuels, would I were a deuill, To liue and burne in euerlasting fire, So I might haue your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue Luci.
After the furie of the execution, the Generall sent the vantgard one way, and the battell another, to burne and spoile; so as you might haue seene the countrey more then three miles compasse on fire.
Burne an Egg shell in the fire till it be as black as a coale, then beat it to a fine powder, and let the party snufle it up into his Nostrills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "burne" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
