Luckily, the hawser as it tautened, brought a fluke directly under the yard, within the Flemish horse, the brace-block, and all the other ropes that are fitted to a lower yard-arm.

You'll get over it in a brace o' shakes.

According to the size of the tent, one or two men, crawling under the tent if necessary, fit each pole or ridge or upright into the ring or ridge-pole holes, and such accessories as hood, fly, and brace ropes are adjusted.

"Ten brace-buttons, three French ha'pennies, and a bit o' tin," ses Sam.

Brace meup a bit.

From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

I may mention there was less in clean-ups than there was in stock, so the future Mrs. P. Douglass was buckin' fate in the shape of a brace game.

Not more, at the most, than three of these experimental brace shots should be necessary, and, as one of each brace is purposely aimed to fall short of the target, only three German shells, or, as there were two French positions, six German shells should have fallen beyond the batteries and into the city.

To find the range the artillery sends what in the American army are called brace shotsone aimed at a point beyond the mark and one short of it.

Brace thy thews, lad, and bring not shame upon Sherwood.

A tell-tale mark on the surface of the fly-wheel showed friction against something, and we found that while the wheel ran freely if we were out of the machine, with the load in, and especially on up grades with the chain drawing the framework closer to the running gear, the rim of the wheel just grazed a bolt-head in a small brace underneath, thereby producing the peculiar grating noise we had heard and materially checking the motor.

Charley, brace uplivelyand come and write this out!"