576 examples of brays in sentences

The country folk of Lancashire say that a weaver dies every time a jackass brays.

She then travelled on the Continent with the Brays, seeing most of the countries of Europe, and studying their languages, manners, and institutions.

how natural he brays!

Elate with flattery and conceit, He seeks his royal sire's retreat; Forward, and fond to show his parts, His highness brays; the lion starts.

In 1849 Miss Evans's father died, and the Brays took her abroad for a tour of the continent.

then brays The gray-haired lover.

Several times a day we are stunned and overwhelmed with the cracked brays of three discordant trumpets, as grating and doleful as the last gasps of a dying donkey.

I can imagine him, after his return to Beyrout, relating his adventures to a company of fellow-donkeys, who every now and then burst into tremendous brays at some of his irresistible dry sayings.

We shall commence our historical sketch from the fifth century, at which period we can trace the blending of the Roman with the barbaric costumenamely, the combination of the long, shapeless garment with that which was worn by the Germans, and which was accompanied by tight-fitting braies.

Thus, in the recumbent statue which adorned the tomb of Clovis, in the Church of the Abbey of St. Geneviève, the King is represented as wearing the tunic and the toga, but, in addition, Gallo-Roman civilization had actually given him tight-fitting braies, somewhat similar to what we now call pantaloons.

"Towards the year 1280," he says, "the dress of a mannot of a man as the word was then used, which meant serf, but of one to whom the exercise of human prerogatives was permitted, that is to say, of an ecclesiastic, a bourgeois, or a noblewas composed of six indispensable portions: the braies, or breeches, the stockings, the shoes, the coat, the surcoat, or cotte-hardie, and the chaperon, or head-dress.

The ass brays, the horse neighs, the sheep bleatsthe feathered denizens of the grove call to their mates in more musical roundelays.

[Illustration: The Ass brays.]

The orchestra plays it, The German band brays it, 'T is sung on the platform and stage; All over the city

To the Brays, Marian Evans owed much in the way of sympathy, culture and direct influence.

Her friends, the Brays, to divert and relieve her mind, invited her to take a continental tour with them.

The old family differences about religion had alienated the brother and sister so far intellectually that she accepted an invitation from the Brays to find a home with them.

Why, he sorta brays.

On this point we need no other evidence than that of Joseph Hume, who, combining the properties of Balaam and his ass, often brays out a blessing when he intends a curse.

But one glorious moonlight night, probably to arouse me to enjoy with him the exquisite beauty of our surroundings, he put his nose through this aperture and gave one of the most prolonged, resounding brays I ever heard.

In some of the old German pictures, while the Hebrew ox is quietly chewing the cud, the Gentile ass "lifts up his voice" and brays with open mouth, as if in triumph.

Even the sumpter mules rejoiced, and gave forth a chorus of brays that did one's heart good.

Worn with care, Miss Evans went upon the Continent with the Brays, visiting Paris, Milan, the Italian lakes, and finally resting for some months at Geneva'.

" On her return to England, she visited the Brays, and met Mr. Chapman, the editor of the Westminster Review, and Mr. Mackay, upon whose Progress of the Intellect she had just written a review.

This ass brays out for silence.

576 examples of  brays  in sentences