barish
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The country round Stonehouse—a country of barish slopes and richly wooded valleys—is perhaps hardly so beautiful as that which he had left and whose memory he never ceased to cherish.
From Tales of the Ridings by Vaughan, C.
Stocks come flyin down, like litenin, and the barish porshun of the compenney, was makin a immense pile of munney.
From The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 by Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller
Some patches of ancient coppice at the base of the barish hills behind, give it even a smiling aspect.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William
In spring all one bank of blossoms; but 'tis barish now and sheep-nibbled, though few eyes but our own could have thus detected there the brown back of Maukin.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
It stands at the end of a long spit of land—a long, barish peninsula that has no houses and looks as if it might be golf-links.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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