Base Ball demands brains as well as brawn.

Barbarism had still by far the larger portion of the world wherein to live and develop, and gather brain and brawn.

Here I behold a dainty streaked piece of brawn, and here a fair lump of white bread.

He watched the great hulking figure as it went out; two hundred and fifty pounds of brawn there, every ounce of it packed with power and the cunning of brutish battle.

He gestured toward himself as though he were ashamed of his brawn, and the heart of Tod warmed and expanded.

And when this is done, though ancient English brawn will not reappear, there will be health, and its great blessing of cheerful spirits.

And the lad from the Emerald Isle Works side by side with Russ and Dane, North-bred men of brawn and brain, Men that are worth your while.

To bake Brawn. Take two Buttocks and hang them up two or three dayes, then take them down and dip them into hot Water, and pluck off the skin, dry them very well with a clean Cloth, when you have so done, take Lard, cut it in peices as big as your little finger, and season it very well with Pepper, Cloves, Mace, Nutmeg, and Salt, put each of them into an earthen Pot, put in a Pint of Claret wine, a pound of Mutton Suet.

To stew Mushrumps The Lord Conway his receipt for the makeing of Amber-puddings To make a Partridge tart To keep venison all the yeare To make Brawn To roast a Pike To sauce Eeles To make sausages without skins To dresse a Pike.

That did not seem right, resting the power of successful mating entirely upon brawn.

His traffick is a kind of pedlary-ware, scutchions, and pennons, and little daggers and lions, such as children esteem and gentlemen; but his pennyworths are rampant, for you may buy three whole brawns cheaper than three boar's heads of him painted.

You may be sure that Elzevir had a good dinner for them, with hot rabbit pie and cold round of brawn, and a piece of blue vinny, which Mr. Bailiff ate heartily, but his clerk would not touch, saying he had as lief chew soap.

"Cambridge Brawn" Campbell, J. Dykes on Coleridge in 1806 on Coleridge's pension Capital Punishment, Lamb on Carlisle, Sir Antony Caroline of Brunswick Cary, H.F. See Letters.

At the door Stretched a brawn eunuch, blacker than my eyes: His woolly head lay like the Kaba-stone In Mecca's mosque, as silent and as huge.

Every bridge has its rotten plank, every fence its flimsy rail, every great one his weakness, and Kellyan, as he pondered, knew how mad it was to meet this one of brawn with mere brute force.

The boy who brought the test mantle of fidelity to king Arthur's court drew a wand three times across a boar's head, and said, "There's never a cuckold who can carve that head of brawn."

Knight after knight made the attempt, but only sir Cradock could carve the brawn.

Your father can't thrash you; he hasn't the brawn for it.

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Perhaps the presence of two hundred pounds of brawn and muscle, representing the law, lent persuasiveness to my brother's words.

The companion of the church dignitary was a man past forty, thin, strong, tall, and muscular; an athletic figure, which long fatigue and constant exercise seemed to have left none of the softer part of the human form, having reduced the whole to brawn, bones, and sinews, which had sustained a thousand toils, and were ready to dare a thousand more.

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries unquestionably saw a great advance in the mystery of cookery and in the diversity of dishes, and the author of "Piers of Fulham" complains, that men were no longer satisfied with brawn and powdered beef, which he terms "store of house," but would have venison, wild fowl, and heronshaw; and men of simple estate, says he, will have partridges and plovers, when lords lack.

The Brown family are of Scotch-Irish extraction, and trace their lineage away back through a long line of ancestors to the time when the name was spelled Brawn, because of the great muscular development of the rugged old Scotch Highlander who founded it.