Word: burining
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...monastery is excavated by Gravedigger Jobey. He discovers the battered coronet, sells it to the blacksmith, who sells it to the jeweler. Young André Jobey enlists in the Army with a friend and they go to Russia under Napoleon. In the retreat from Moscow they meet a Russian officer, Burin, who has just lost his silver whip and is looking for it drunkenly through the snow. The whip has been picked up by somebody and given to Napoleon who passing through Senlis on his way to Paris, flings it into the jeweler's shop...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...