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Other characters: The fruit is a prickly burr encasing a sharply triangular nut which is sweet and edible.
[42] At times this wheel was applied so as to make a rough burr on the surface; on the other hand but little use was made of the simple engraved line that we find on the German glass of the seventeenth century.
It conveyed to my soul the idea of revolution-perhaps from its association in fancy with the burr of a mill wheel.
If you read Warren Buffett or Peter Lynch or John Burr Williams, you get a clear sense of the principles that guide their investing.
Hardly anyone now remembers why Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr fought a duel, or why Andrew Johnson was almost voted out of office.
Even in the American edit, with Raymond Burr tacked on as a portentous reporter, the aura of mourning was palpable.
Full grown, these fish weigh two to three times as much and are now a protected species, but they were once so abundant in American waters that Aaron Burr claimed he could cross the Hudson from Manhattan to New Jersey on their backs.
Travel north along the Gaelic Coast, a name amply justified by the thick Scottish burr you’ll hear from most of the very friendly people you speak to on the way.
Then Giles, whose view of impeachment left him utterly shameless in the matter, drew up and circulated in the Senate itself a petition to the Governor of New Jersey asking him to quash the indictment for murder which the Bergen County grand jury had found against Burr as a result of the duel with Hamilton.
" Whether Burr made any attempt to render the expected quid pro quo for these favors does not appear, but at least if he did, his efforts were fruitless.
The Trial Of Aaron Burr When, on March 30, 1807, Colonel Aaron Burr, late Vice-President of the United States, was brought before Chief Justice Marshall in the Eagle Tavern at Richmond on the charge of treason, there began the greatest criminal trial in American history and one of the notable trials in the annals of the law.
"The Burr Conspiracy" still remains after a hundred years an unsolved enigma.
Yet whether Burr actually planned treason against the United States in the year of grace 1806 is after all a question of somewhat restricted importance.
* An account of the Burr conspiracy will be found in "Jefferson and his Colleagues," by Allen Johnson (in "The Chronicles of America").
In the summer of 1806 Burr turned westward a second time and with the assistance of Blennerhassett he began military preparations on the latter's island for a mysterious expedition.
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