What is "burrage"

Usage examples of "burrage".

Henry Burrage smiled upon Ransom in a way that was meant to show he remembered having already spoken to him, while the Mississippian said to himself that there was nothing on the face of it to make it strange there should be between these fair, successful young persons some such question of love or marriage as Mrs.

Ransom remarked, in a tone in which it would have appeared to Henry Burrage, had he heard these words, that presumption was pushed to fatuity.

Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.

His allusion to Henry Burrage touched her, his belief that she had been in the Park under circumstances more agreeable than those he proposed.

New York, there to live as his wife, partly bullied, partly pampered, in the accustomed Burrage manner?

Henry Burrage, and second, that her nature was extraordinarily beautiful.

Verena, either by Henry Burrage or by his friend Gracie, about her addressing the Harvard students.

Now the subject suddenly leaped to such importance that it overshadowed the ball-game which Yale was to play against Princeton, and the coming boat-race at New London, in which the phenomenally popular Inza Burrage was to be the mascot of the Yale crew.

Merriwell was writing another message, directed to Bernard Burrage, assuring him of the safety of Inza and asking that this fact and the fact that he and Bart were also safe be communicated at once to their friends at the hotel and elsewhere.

Among his treasures was a medal of honor presented to him by Congress for twice saving the life of Inza Burrage, a pretty girl who lived in Fardale, and whose brother, Walter, was a cadet at the academy.

Inza Burrage had sent him word through her brother that she would visit Belinda Snodd that afternoon, and he might see her there, if he cared to call.

If I prove it to your satisfaction, Miss Burrage, will you cut the fellow, and have nothing to do with him in the future?

But he was happiest in receiving the approbation of Inza Burrage, who learned, through her brother, what Frank had done.

Delia Burrage, who sang in the choir, had, as was afterward told from one end of the town to the other, slipped down the gallery stair without waiting for the benediction, and so had managed to be first in the field.

She fell on her knees, and bowed her face in her handkerchief in a grief so dramatic that Miss Burrage was left far behind, and had no resource but to come to her knees in turn, in a weak imitation of her rival.