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The ball smacked into the burn's brick wall, then flew across the 18th fairway and landed out of bounds on the far side of the 18th.
Burned twice on 18, Harrington recovers at British Open 2007
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Or "That burn's going to need ointment" Or maybe a simple "23-skidoo".
New Obama Radio Ad Hits McCain As "Shameful" For "Makin' Stuff Up" 2009
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They were burned-and your burn's where the locket was.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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Consequently, the water from his mill pond was now making a temporary spate in the little stream, which, in the course of nature, had caused many salmon to run their noses into the burn's unexplored meanderings.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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Breaking forth from the burg; was that burn's outwelling
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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The poet is as much at home in the presence of this flood as by his "trottin 'burn's meander."
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Out of it all came, however, for the dale, and for the women at White Farm who listened to the burn's voice, a sense of trustworthiness.
Foes Mary Johnston 1903
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At the expiration of that time she joined Mr. Is burn's staff, and soon that gentleman wrote her father that in certain lines of investigation she was unexcelled.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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"Div ye think the burn's ony happier i 'the summer, mem?"
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Black burn's Ford, had proceeded, with the rest of his regiments and guns, to the position where Miles finds him.
The Great Conspiracy, Volume 3 John Alexander Logan 1856
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