Byrons

The Byrons are a short-lived race on both sides, father and mother; longevity is hereditary: I am nearly at the end of my tether.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

Mass. one from Vermont and myself from Maine We passed an agreeable winter We had nothing to do but to eat attend to the horses and procure fire wood We had some few Books to read such as Byrons

Journal of a Trapper 1914

It is such fervor that might just persuade us to set down our Blackberrys and take up our Byrons.

The Whimsical Reader Abigail Deutsch 2011

Hidden Dragon The view from a bedroom at Hidden Dragon chalet in Verbier For well-heeled skiers like the Byrons, luxury chalets are increasingly becoming as much of an attraction as the slopes.

From Hot Tubs to Haute Cuisine Jemima Sissons 2010

Byrons or Bowies, poets and pop idols, all those glamourous and glamouring Romantics tend to accrete rumours of gender-bending exploits, even before they start actively courting them.

Notes from New Sodom: On Blood, Bad Boys and Bottoms by Hal Duncan 2009

We encounter the Byrons not as "the Byrons," but as mediated through a later nineteenth-century moment.

The Little Professor: 2008

Given that Annabella plans to elicit this confession through what is, in effect, blackmail because of the rumors about the breakup of the Byrons' marriage, only Annabella's public favor can save Augusta from total social ruin, the reader may feel a sneaking suspicion that Annabella is interested less in saving Augusta's soul and more in scoring a point.

The Little Professor: 2008

We encounter the Byrons not as "the Byrons," but as mediated through a later nineteenth-century moment.

A Quiet Adjustment 2008

Given that Annabella plans to elicit this confession through what is, in effect, blackmail because of the rumors about the breakup of the Byrons' marriage, only Annabella's public favor can save Augusta from total social ruin, the reader may feel a sneaking suspicion that Annabella is interested less in saving Augusta's soul and more in scoring a point.

A Quiet Adjustment 2008

Byrons of the desk and counter, pass on, and let us see what kind of men those are behind ye: those two labourers in holiday clothes, of whom one carries in his hand a crumpled scrap of paper from which he tries to spell out

American Notes for General Circulation 2007