It would not be a bad thing if there were more "old fops" like Oscar Byrn in the theaters of to-day.
This exercise, Mr. Byrn used to say, and quite truly, I think, taught us uprightness of carriage and certainty of step.
Sum bad byrn him, sum hang him in a cord; Thai swor that he had dissawit thair lord.
Thai lugyt thar till aucht dayis was at end; Off meit and drynk thai had inewch to spend; Turssyt furth ger, that Sothroun had brocht thar; Gert byrn the boit, till Sanct Jhonstoun thai fair.
Pow houssis doun, we sall nocht want adeill; “The auld temyr will ger the greyn byrn weill.
To York thai went but baid, or thai wald blyn; To byrn and sla off thaim he had na syne.
My will is to assay, And now perform the sacryfyce in hy, 25 That onto Pluto dewly begun haue I; To mak end of my dolorus thochtis all, And byrn ȝon Troiane statw in flamb funeral.
O'Byrn reasoned that winks by a man of Shaughnessy's calibre were not wasted.
They spied Micky, moodily gazing out of the window, and swiftly hatched a plan whereby the venerable visitor was soon introduced to Micky with the understanding that O'Byrn should "put him next.
After some little time, however, O'Byrn saw a familiar figure crossing Lawrence Street, a block from the point where the alley intersected.
O'Byrn stumbled blindly out upon the street, blurred eyes blinking in dazzling sunshine of an ideal Indian summer afternoon.
O'Byrn had warmed to his subject; his cigar stub described wild flourishes.
They placed O'Byrn on a sofa and he immediately lapsed into dreamland.
O'Byrn told himself fiercely that it could not be, that earth must long since have wearied of such an excrescence and cast it forth to annihilation.
O'Byrn entered, with a drowsy order to drive to the Courier office.
Wary as Shaughnessy was, he could not have known that he was being shadowed, though O'Byrn noticed him several times casting apprehensive glances to the rear.
So he went about his tasks and discreetly dodged places that might perchance hold the uproarious O'Byrn and his riotous cronies.
As O'Byrn walked along the crowded street, he passed some members of the gang, hurrying by with white faces and furtive eyes, cringing in the glare of publicity as if a lash bit deep into quivering flesh.
O'Byrn was lost in admiration of the man whose power was the greater because unsuspected by the great public.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "byrn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
