Example Sentences

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His hints about pipes are very extensively followed, and nowadays every ambitious young pressman smokes in public at least one well-burnt briar with an eccentric stem—even at some personal inconvenience.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Study Italian Gothic?—perhaps it would be as well: build with pointed arches?—there is no objection: use solid stone and well-burnt brick?— by all means: but—learn to carve or paint organic form ourselves!

From The Two Paths by Ruskin, John

The commander of the fortress Got a keg of best Varinas For us from a Dutch retailer, Got us also well-burnt clay-pipes.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

Buck looked over and saw a lean, dark man hugging his knees and smoking a well-burnt briar pipe.

From The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills by Cullum, Ridgwell

And he illustrates thus: Suppose a man building with good, square, well-burnt bricks; without the use of mortar he may build a wall of a certain height and stability.

From The Teaching of Jesus by Jackson, George