Burnside
Americannoun
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Gen. Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, “but if the couchant lion postpones his spring too long, people will begin wondering whether he is not a stuffed specimen after all.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
“People are scared,” says Melissa Kono, the elected town clerk in Burnside, Wisconsin.
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
In April, a formerly unhoused man participating in the mission’s long-term shelter program was sorting through piles of donations at the mission’s Burnside Shelter.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Linzi Burnside, 30, a nursery schoolteacher, snagged tickets on the first — and only — day they were available before all general admission tickets were gone.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
Burnside, who had been a doctor, rushed forward and felt for Mr. Norton's pulse.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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