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Definition of Richard Burton

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

2. Noun. Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Richard Burton

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Buckminster Fuller Richard Burbage Richard Burdon Haldane Richard Burton (current term) Richard Coeur de Lion Richard D'Oyly Carte Richard D. Fosbury Richard E. Byrd Richard E. Smalley

Richard Errett Smalley Richard Erskine Leakey Richard Evelyn Byrd Richard Feynman Richard Haldane Richard Henry Lee Richard Henry Tawney Richard Hooker Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace

Literary usage of 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 Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"... in shining presences, We can resume our smallness, nor imply In' mien or gesture what that memory is. Richard Burton. ..."

2. 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 ..."

3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"Richard Burton. The importance of the new country grew so rapidly that on September 9, 1850, California waa admitted to the Union, the thirty-first state. ..."

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