Robert Burnsin a sentence
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Robert Burns is paraphrased more than quoted because so much of his vocabulary sounds archaic today.
Robert Burns = admired Scottish poet (1759-1796)
- On the front of the yellow cigarette box is a poem by Robert Burns that Gram likes to sing to an old Irish tune: Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes.† (source)
- "I can hear my thrush, my Hylocichla guttata pritchardi," he said, and then he quoted his favorite poet, Robert Burns: " 'Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough.'† (source)
- I know it's a poem by Robert Burns.† (source)
- Robert Burns.† (source)
- The smaller girl put in his lap Robert Burns, the tomcat, respected by all because last summer when a large brown bear had walked a boom log onto the dwelling float, he had greeted him with such an outraged screech that the bear had fallen off the log and into the chuck.† (source)
- By Robert Burns.† (source)
- Now and again an Emily Brontë or a Robert Burns blazes out and proves its presence.† (source)
- Robert Burns, "It was a' for our Rightfu' King," II.† (source)
- Earlier, Robert Burns[321] has given us a song or two.† (source)