Loser at Fredericksburg

Usage examples of burnside.

I totter at a red hot half-a-mile an hour along lighted halls and Burnside generally outruns me.

The wheelchair rayed like a pony with ambition, then hit the floor as Burnside spun in a circle.

And for how long, one may further ask, has Burnside been trying to put the make on her?

Burnside sat between us, and Burnside was stupidly buying every ounce of it.

Being ambitious, Burnside tried to square away the whole Pacific theater before doing occupation duty in Japan.

I honestly told my visitors to shove off, but Burnside waxed eloquent.

He preached, favoring Moses and Abraham, and Burnside scared himself half to death.

His chair moved slowly, the tattered battle flag not lifted by any breeze, and Burnside was a man who had the trap knocked out of him.

I waited for a Burnside story -- waited for the end of the world -- for the dead to rise -- for the second coming -- for a face-to-face with whatever dark evil waited to axe our spirits.

We take pride in not feeling sorry for ourselves, but Burnside took it a little too far.

Bad enough we tried to figure a message, now Burnside had to get his morals in gear.

Burnside wallowed before an abstraction, and Burnside is not Houdini when it comes to abstractions.

I said, and did not know whether I spoke to Burnside or Harvey or darkness.

If Burnside and I did not sit on that terrace, darkness would engulf her.

Somewhere in darkness Burnside made his move, and voices of the past sent whispers into that same darkness.