sirup
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Last week Robert Frost was on his farm near Ripton, Vt., where this spring, with his partner, Stafford Dragon, he manufactured 60 gallons of fine maple sirup.
From Time Magazine Archive
And no paper cares to folo the trail blazed by the Chicago Tribune into a virgin land of simplified spelling: altho, thru, sirup, burocracy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He will also take care not to burn the sirup by urging the fire toward the end of the operation.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.
Taylor did not seem to mind it, but Bud, with a vigorous appetite, and longings that ran to flapjacks and sirup, grew impatient.
From The Ranchman by Seltzer, Charles Alden
I could stand them; fact is, Mary was a sort of soothin' sirup, with her pleasant face and calm, cheery voice.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
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