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vb. (obsolete spelling of burn English)
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Burne (variations: Byrnes, Byrne, O'Byrne, O'Byrnes, Burns, Beirne, Bourne) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alfred Burne (1886–1959), soldier and military historian
- Burne Hogarth (1911–1996), American cartoonist, illustrator, educator, author and theoretician
- Charlotte Sophia Burne (1850–1923), author and editor, president of the Folklore Society
- Christopher F. Burne, Brigadier General in the United States Air Force
- Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), British artist and designer who worked closely with William Morris
- Grayson Burne, British sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s
- James Burne Ferguson, 19th century Member of Parliament in New Zealand
- Loh Gwo Burne (born 1974), Malaysian politician
- Nancy Burne (1912–1954), British film actress
- Nicol Burne (1574–1598), Scottish Roman Catholic controversialist
- Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926), the first child of the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Usage examples of "burne".
Then Psyches fell flat on the ground, and as long as she could see her husband she cast her eyes after him into the aire, weeping and lamenting pitteously : but when hee was gone out of her sight shee threw her selfe into the next running river, for the great anguish and dolour that shee was in for the lack of her husband , howbeit the water would not suffer her to be drowned, but tooke pity upon her, in the honour of Cupid which accustomed to broyle and burne the river, and threw her upon the bank amongst the herbs.
Jillian Burnes, the transexual novelist, who could be relied upon for a touch of compassion.
I have been so distracted that I forgot that you went to Bokhara with Lieutenant Burnes several years ago.
Talis said bleakly, thinking of his brother, Burne, younger than Talis at the time, watching their father die.
O rash and bold lampe, the vile ministery of love, how darest thou bee so bold as to burne the god of all fire?
Andy Burne, Clint Kael and Al Vayre, all holding their patched-up rifles, staring in slack-jawed amazement at the tableau of scarlet death in front of them.
Gawayn gly3t on the gome that godly hym gret, And thu3t hit a bolde burne that the burygh ayghte, A hoge hathel for the none3, and of h3e eldee.
But he sad man, when he had long in dredeAwayted there for Britomarts returne,Yet saw her not nor signe of her good speed,His expectation to despaire did turne,Misdeeming sure that her those flames did burne.
That cursed man, that cruell feend of hell,Furor, oh Furor hath me thus bedight:His deadly wounds within my liuers swell,And his whot fire burnes in mine entrails bright,Kindled through his infernall brond of spight,Sith late with him I batteil vaine would boste.
The beuerage wat3 bro3t forth in bourde at that tyme, Thenne thay louelych le3ten leue at the last, Vche burne to his bedde busked bylyue.
Thenne he ka3t to the knot, and the kest lawse3, Brayde brothely the belt to the burne seluen: "Lo!
Quoth that burde to the burne, "Blame 3e disserue, Yghif 3e luf not that lyf that yghe lye nexte, Bifore alle the wy3e3 in the worlde wounded in hert, Bot if 3e haf a lemman, a leuer, that yow lyke3 better, And folden fayth to that fre, festned so harde That yow lausen ne lyst--and that I leue nouthe.