"Bra" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... invectives, when a well-dressed young man stepped up to the group. This gentleman, whose accent and dress showed him to be a Frenchman of quality, told Odo that he was come from Vicenza, whither he had gone to engage a company of actors for his friend the Procuratore Bra, who was entertaining a distinguished company at his villa on the Brenta; that he was now returning with his players, and that he would be glad to convey Odo so far on his road to Venice. His friend's ...
— The Valley of Decision • Edith Wharton
... and covered with dirt, which they shook when they caught sight of William, with cries of "Plenty of work for the tanner!" "By the glory of God," cried William, "they shall pay me dear for this insolent bra-very!" After an assault several of the besieged were taken prisoners; and he had their eyes pulled out, and their feet and hands cut off, and shot from his siege-machines these mutilated members over ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... of its being confounded with the , formative of the singular of many verbal nouns, such as bin, saf, jal; with the masculine plurals ending in the same letters, such as hukam, ghniy, kfar; and with the feminine plurals of many adjectives, such as kbra, sghra, hsna, etc. Dr. Redhouse says that 'many eminent Arabists avoid such errors'—a remark which rather surprises me, since Pocock, Lane and Palmer, and Fresnel and Perron among French Orientalists, as also Burton, all retain ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... his bra, He sez, good foaks, I'll tell yo' nah; Oud Blue Beard's nasty wizen'd kaa Hez swallow'd ...
— Th' History o' Haworth Railway - fra' th' beginnin' to th' end, wi' an ackaant o' th' oppnin' serrimony • Bill o'th' Hoylus End |
