36 examples of brea in sentences
Thus we walked to Carn Brea and witnessed the wrestling, the common game of the country.
But almost the most interesting group of all was one of Cornish miners, from the well-known old Redruth and Camborne county, and the old sacred hill of Carn-brea, who were going to seek their fortunes awhile in silver mines among the Andes, leaving wives and children at home, and hoping, 'if it please God, to do some good out there,' and send their earnings home.
For on the 22d of March Raleigh sailed into Cedros Bay, and then went up to La Brea and the Pitch Lake.
CHAPTER VIII: LA BREA We were, of course, desirous to visit that famous Lake of Pitch, which our old nursery literature described as one of the 'Wonders of the World.'
We ran, on our first visit, past the pitch point of La Brea, south- westward to Trois, where an industrial farm for convicts had been established by my host the Governor.
We scrambled back into the boathad, of course, a heap of fruit, bananas, oranges, pine-apples, tossed in after usand ran back again in the steamer to the famous La Brea.
The first plants which caught our eyes were pine-apples; for which La Brea is famous.
On the right were negro huts and gardens, fewer and fewer as we went onall rich with fruit-trees, especially with oranges, hung with fruit of every hue; and beneath them, of course, the pine- apples of La Brea.
'All previous descriptions refer the bituminous matter scattered over the La Brea district, and especially that between the village and the lake, to streams which have issued at some former epoch from the lake, and extended into the sea.
And may not the asphalt mingled with it have been squeezed into it and round it, as it is being squeezed into and through the unburnt strata at so many points in Guapo, La Brea, Oropuche, and San Fernando?
At least, so it seemed to us, as we sat on the shore, waiting for the boat to take us round to La Brea, and drank in dreamily with our eyes the beauty of that strange lonely place.
More to the west lay San Fernando hill, the calm gulf, and the coast toward La Brea and Cedros melting into mist.
" R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREA
The most remarkable phenomenon there is a bituminous lake, situated on the western coast, near the village of La Brea.
The Mango-tree The Priest's Heart 'Qu'est Qu'il Dit' The Legend of La Brea Hymn The Delectable Day Juventus Mundi Valentine's Day Ballad Martin Lightfoot's Song ANDROMEDA
THE LEGEND OF LA BREA {331a} Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake, In the stately Morichal, {331b} Sat an ancient Spanish Indian, Peering through the columns tall.
Come to you' pallet nowgo to you' res'; Wisht you could allus know ease an' cleah skies; Wisht you could stay jes' a chile on my breas' Little brown baby wif spa'klin' eyes!
Then, reassured, they came together, and Breas first spoke to Sreng.
Then, putting these pleasant things aside, they turned to weightier matters, and Breas made a proposal for the De Danaan men.
Mutterings against Breas were rife among the chiefs and their followers when the bard Cairbré, whose mother Etan was also a maker of verses, came to the assembly of Breas.
The bard was full of resentment and set himself to make songs against Breas, so that all men repeated his verses, and the name of Breas fell into contempt.
The bard was full of resentment and set himself to make songs against Breas, so that all men repeated his verses, and the name of Breas fell into contempt.
Here Indec and Balor, and Breas the cause of their coming, fixed their camp.
The De Danaans fought with sword and spear, but, unless they had added to their weapons since the days of Breas and Sreng, they did not shoot with the bow; this was, perhaps, the cause of their defeat, for the De Danaans were defeated among the hills on that long headland.
On Whiteborough, a large tumulus near Launceston, a huge bonfire used to be kindled on Midsummer Eve; a tall summer pole with a large bush at the top was fixed in the centre of the bonfire.[509] The Cornish fires at this season appear to have been commonly lit on high and conspicuous hills, such as Tregonan, Godolphin, Carnwarth, and Cam Brea.