What is "bures"

Usage examples of "bures".

He wondered if they would have one of the special bures overlooking their own private beach.

So was Bures, and now Currald, apparently unconscious, vomited copiously, gagging on it.

I had to ask Mrs Quayle to stop a few miles north of Bures and was sick on the verge.

They drank very good madeira and talked about the Bures Agricultural Show.

It was important, if he was going to be jumped at Bures, that nothing should be done to damage his self-confidence.

Eleanor one day when there were still seven days before the Bures Show.

So the Ashby household settled back to its normal placidity, and to its preparations for that day at Bures that was to alter all their lives.

For which reason the Bures Agricultural Show, although a small country affair, had a standing and reputation considerably greater than its size alone would warrant.

An air of well-being came off the Bures pavements like reflected sunlight.

It was not always a successful method of getting home, of course, and more than one young farmer had spent his summer months in hospital after the Bures Show, but to the younger generation it was inconceivable that they should sleep in an inn when their home was less than forty miles away.

So only the older exhibitors, who clung to tradition, or those who lived at an inconvenient distance from Bures, or could not, owing to difficult communications, get their animals away on the evening of the show, still stayed overnight at Bures.

The Ashbys had had the same bedrooms at the Chequers for the night of the Bures Show since the days of William Ashby the Seventh: he who had joined the Westover Fencibles to resist the expected invasion of Napoleon the First.

They kept themselves to themselves very determinedly, and it was no longer possible for the people of Bures to walk through Hallands Park.

People came up to their table to welcome him back to Bures Show, to England.

She avoided horses too consistently for the rest of the year to claim any right to exhibit any on this one day at Bures, so she sat in the stands in her neat grey flannel and looked on.