What is "burdock"

Usage examples of "burdock".

I hoped he would smarten himself up a bit, and then may be Burdock would ask him into the house, on my account, if I told him who he was.

I hardly reckoned on it myself, but Burdock knew him better than I did.

Then he took him by the arm and followed Burdock into the little room in the verandah.

Everybody seemed to know Burdock and shook hands with him, and he always introduced me as his friend, Mr.

I stood there with the men drinking towards me, and the girls smiling and blushing and making believe to be angry with old Burdock, I could hardly believe I was Jesse Claythorpe at all.

This directed that one dozen red roses be sent to Miss Burdock, one at a time on specified days, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.

Fifteen minutes later Plympton Burdock, father of the dead girl, received a card from a servant, glanced at it, nodded, and The Thinking Machine was ushered in.

The Thinking Machine went his way, leaving Burdock sitting with his face in his hands.

One drop of a stronger solution than that, on a rose bloom, would have killed Miss Burdock, and the dog if he sniffed at it, as he must have.

Only twelve roses had been bought, paid for, and delivered from there, and the rose that killed Miss Burdock was the thirteenth rose.

I feel that any steps you see fit to take to get Tom Burdock on a train headed back home will be fully justified.

As a result of this generous conduct numerous flasks and bottles began to make their appearance, and as a direct result of their arrival Tom Burdock was soon back where he had been on retiring the previous evening.

As long as Tom Burdock could think he acted, and even after he had ceased to think he still continued to act.

The thing even felt like a baby as she carried it along the street, Burdock, in his impatience with details, having stripped off the wrapping, which like all wrappings had untidily come undone.

Tom Burdock was under the impression that at the moment he was hugely amusing.