burnside

• “Even when not in bloom, the burnside plants display the wealth of texture so recommended to us by expensive garden designers.”

  The Guardian: Country diary

• “I ran up the burnside, crawling over the open places, and for a large part wading in the shallow stream.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “I forsook the burnside, crossed another dyke, and almost before I knew was on a rough lawn.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “I did not follow the road, but the burnside which flanked it on the right, where the bracken grew deep and the high banks made a tolerable screen.”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “There, in a hollow place by the burnside that was shaded by some birks, he was aware of a barefoot boy, perhaps a matter of three years older than himself.”

  Lay Morals

• “The glow was maybe a hundred yards distant, a little spark of fire I could have put in my cap, and, from its crackling and smoke, composed of dry seaweed and half-green branches from the burnside thickets.”

  Prester John

• “I've got Duncan Stewart's house, down by the burnside.”

  Rose cottage

• “And waly waly yon burnside where I and my love wont to gae.”

  Waly, Waly 3

• “The whistle of the engine shrieked, and the train steamed out of the station along the burnside toward Huntly.”

  The Book of Missionary Heroes

• “Ah, I can at this moment think of spots, by the burnside and the braeside, endeared to my heart by a thousand tender associations.”

  The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.

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