Do we say brae or bray

brae 54 occurrences

It is then seen as one grand flood rushing over bank and brae, bending the pines like weeds, curving this way and that, whirling in huge eddies in hollows and dells, while the main current pours grandly over all, like ocean currents over the landscapes that lie hidden at the bottom of the sea.

In the knoll that is the greenest, And the grey cliff side, And on the lonely ben-top The wee folk bide; They'll flit among the heather, And trip upon the brae The wee folk, the green folk, the red folk and grey.

Pell-mell they poured by vale and stream, By lawn and steepy brae "O children, children!

Stafford, Jessie was telling me that there is a very beautiful girl staying at the Villa at Brae Woodone of the visitors.

Sometimes Stafford would ride over from Brae Wood and meet her by the river.

What do you say to Brae Wood, then?" Stafford's face flushed.

"There is Brae Wood.

I'll make that over to you" Brae Wood again!

All the time she was talking, she was beset by a longing to ask Jessie about Brae Wood and the Ormes; but she crushed down the idea; and Jessie was too intent upon hearing the story of her mistress's sojourn in London to have any breath or inclination to tell any of the dale news.

But he found her rather absent-minded and preoccupied and presently, in a pause, she said, with forced calmness: "Is Sir Stephen Orme still at the Villa at Brae Wood, Mr. Wordley?" He had been making some memoranda in his pocket-book and he looked up with a start and stared at her.

I am the daughter of Mr. Falconer, of the Villa at Brae Wood.

Behind my father's house there lies A little grassy brae, Whose face my childhood's busy feet Ran often up in play, Whence on the chimneys I looked down In wonderment alway.

Not that John and Robert drew very close together in their lives; for John was rough, he smelt of the windy brae; and Robert was gentle, and smacked of the garden in the hollow.

Oh, the wafts o' heather honey, and the music o' the brae, As I watch the great harts feeding, nearer, nearer a' the day.

Ye'll bury me 'twixt the brae and the burn, in a glen far away, Where I may hear the heathcock craw, and the great harts bray; And gin my ghaist can walk, mither, I'll go glowering at the sky, The livelong night on the black hill sides where the dun deer lie.

She rose and climbed the steep brae.

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly down the brae, And waly, waly yon burn side, Where I and my love wont to gae.

Then the guns found us out again, and we tried to open out into line; but in an instant the horsemenlancers they were this timewere upon us from over the brae.

It was all done in an instant, and the Frenchman cantering his horse up the brae, showing his teeth at us over his shoulder like a snarling dog.

We'd a bit cabin at the top of the brae, and there we'd keep our oil for our lamps, and leave our good coats.

It was in the cabin in the brae, where we'd gather to fill our lamps and eat our bread and cheese, that they asked me, as a rule.

"I would not leave old Scotland's mountain gray, Her hills, her cots, her halls, her groves of pine, Dark though they be: yon glen, yon broomy brae, Yon wild fox cleugh, yon eagle cliffs outline An hour like thisthis white right-hand of thine, And of thy dark eyes such a gracious glance, As I got now, for all beyond the line, And all the glory gained by sword or lance, In gallant England, Spain, or olive vales of France.

Tommy called on them promptly at their house in the Bellies Brae (four rooms, but a lodger), and said, almost before he had time to look, that the baby had Corp's chin and Gavinia's eyes.

After an hour's climbing up the heathy brae, through a scattered plantation of young trees, clambering over stone dykes, and jumping over moorland rills and springs, oozing from the black turf and streaking its sombre surface with stripes of green, we found ourselves on the table-land of the moora broad, bare level, garnished with a few black huts, and patches of scanty oats, won by patient industry from the waste.

He was, however, prepared for the attack, and sturdily defended his property, boldly asserting, "Na, na, laird, thae are no Tod-brae banes; they are Inch-byre banes, and nane o' your honour's"meaning that he had received these bones at the house of a neighbour of a more liberal character.

bray 455 occurrences

One marches to the drum-beat's roll, The wide-mouthed clarion's bray, And bears upon a crimson scroll, "Our glory is to slay.

BRAY (MRS. ANNA ELIZA).

Just as he was thinking whether he had not better stop where he was, and sit down on the firmest tuft he could find and wait for morning, when perhaps the rainstorm might cease and enable him to see where he was, he heard, and at no very great distance, the sudden bray of a donkey.

"In which some only bleat, bark, mew, whinny, and bray, a little better than others.

I am sorry that I shall not be present as I have to attend the Bishop's Conference at Bray Chester, which is expected to last a week or two.

'Good Heavens,' I exclaimed, 'can a Water-devil bray?'

She early accepted the theory of Charles Bray and Sara Hennell, that we live hereafter only in the life of the race.

The music hour; accompaniments for songs in the one book course, by Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

Mabel E. Bray (A); 18Dec61; R287185.

By Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

Mabel E. Bray (A); 22Dec61; R287138.

By Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

Mabel E. Bray (A); 22Dec61; R287140.

By Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

Mabel E. Bray (A); 22Dec61; R287141.

By Joseph Schrembs, Sister Alice Marie, Gregory Huegle, Mabel E. Bray & others.

Mabel E. Bray (A); 15May63; R315586. GREGORY, JACKSON.

BRAY, MABEL E. The music hour.

The music hour; Louisiana beginner's book for upper grades, by Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

Mabel B. Bray (A); 29Dec64; R352078.

BRAY, JEAN SHAW.

SEE Fotos, John T. BRAY, JOHN L. German grammar for chemists and other science students.

SEE Fotos, John T. BRAY, MABEL E. The music hour.

By Osbourne McConathy, W. Otto Miessner, Edward Bailey Birge & Mabel E. Bray.

BRAY, a Berkshire village, famous for Simon Aleyn, its vicar from 1540 to 1588, who, to retain his living, never scrupled to change his principles; he lived in the reigns of Charles II., James II., William III., Queen Anne, and George I. BRAZEN AGE, in the Greek mythology the age of violence, that succeeded the weak Silver Age.

Do we say   brae   or  bray