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Definition of Sir Richard Burton

1. Noun. English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890).

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Literary usage of Sir Richard Burton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"SIR RICHARD F. BURTON (1821-1890) *T HAS sometimes been said that the roving propensities of Sir Richard Burton are attributable to a slight infusion of ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"... taught astrology to Sir Richard Burton the traveller and to the first Lord Lytton. With his pupils he was very popular, helping them in all ways, ..."

3. Contemporary Portraits by Frank Harris (1915)
"Sir Richard Burton RALEIGH, Sir Walter of that ilk, has always seemed to me the best representative of Elizabethan England; for he could speak and act with ..."

4. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1907)
"XL Sir Richard Burton WHEN in the early morning of August 13, 1878, Irving arrived at Dublin, ... Sir Richard Burton."

5. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving by Bram Stoker (1906)
"XL Sir Richard Burton A Face o] steel—Some pleasant suppers—Lord Houghton — Searching for Patriarchs — Edmund Henry Palmer — Desert law— The " Arabian ..."

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