"Burnt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the name of Henri, when they baptized him, long previous to his revolt. He was called Henriquillo by way of Catholic endearment. But the consecrating water could not wash out of his remembrance that his father and grandfather had been burnt alive by order of a Spanish governor. What, indeed, can quench such fires? Yet this dusky Hannibal loved the exercises and pure restraints of the religion which had laid waste ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... of the proprietors, or superintendents, of a caravan of animals,—a large, portly paunched, dark-complexioned, brandy-burnt, heavy-faced man of about fifty; with a diminutive nose in proportion to the size of his face,—thick lips; nevertheless he has the air of a man who has seen much, and derived such experience as was for his purpose. Also it is the air of a man not in a subordinate ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... fury, it overwhelmed me in a torrent of mad shame and wild jealousy. I had failed—had been beaten at my own game—beaten and fooled by some God who had used my passion for his own ends. Those short minutes of purer love burnt my soul like fire till I raged at my folly. Christopher, I'd give all I have left to say I was mad. I wasn't. I knew what I was doing. The revolver lay there on the table and an open box of cartridges by it. It was the coward's way out of the agony, and I took it. I shot ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... young fellow of perhaps sixteen stood only a short distance off from the lake with an expression of superior amusement on his face. He was a country boy, for he wore no hat and his hair was burnt to a light straw color at the ends, his skin was ...
— The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill • Margaret Vandercook
... sake let's have it light while we can! Here, Jerry! them matches is burnt ones. Try this, 'twon't be so damagin' ...
— Cap'n Eri • Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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