1st F omits the bracket.

The German gun had got its bracket.

" In the beer garden, where they used to dine almost every nightan imitation medieval saloon, with paneled beams made by machinery, plaster walls imitating oak, and neo-Gothic crystalsthe proprietor used to exhibit as a great curiosity a jar of grotesque little figures among the porcelain steins that adorned the brackets of the pedestals.

Tuesday I went on a tramp with M. and brought home a gigantic bracket.

But would she want it to be such a "together" as certain of her friends shared? Laura Harrowgate was a grandmother, but still she would gush over that plate from Holland two centuries old, buy a bracket for it and exhibit it to her friends.

Detective Inspector Howell discovered close to the window a wrought-iron gas bracket, the height of which corresponded exactly with the bruise at the back of Mrs. Owen's head.

The whole of the parts of the outer and inner framings are connected together by knees at the corners, and the double sides are elsewhere connected by intervening brackets and stays, so as to constitute the whole into one rigid structure.

The stone was cut in such a way as to leave on two of its sides small brackets shaped like the two halves of the utensil called a "tunnel."

Don't set me to making brackets.

Then he nailed a bracket to the tree, at the height of an easy step from the ground, and at the same height nailed a piece of wood across between two of the poles.

For the vault of the Sistine he designed a mighty architectural framework in the form of a hypaethral temple, suspended in the air on jutting pilasters, with bold cornices, projecting brackets, and ribbed arches flung across the void of heaven.

It cost her a twinge of pain, but only by standing upright on the bed's edge could she reach the gas-bracket to turn the flame higher.

At last the space under the shelf was cleared, and staggering, blackened, blinded, yet believing, Paul Coquenil stumbled forward and seized the left-hand bracket in his two bruised hands and pressed it with all his might.

The subdued light of the interior adds to the impressiveness of its great piers stretching their giant brackets up to the roof like the gnarled and twisted branches of primeval forest trees.

Shafts carried up from the ground support the roof brackets, and there are intermediate ones over the centre of each arch.

The market at last refused to absorb any more brackets and pickaxes; telegraph wire did not make as good fish-nets and dog-harnesses as some of our salesmen confidently predicted that it would; and lime-juice and water, as a beverage, even when drunk out of pressed-crystal insulators, beautifully tinted with green, did not seem to commend itself to the aboriginal mind.

But he forgets two important circumstances: First, that I was quoting, not the bard, but the grammatist; Second, that a writer uses brackets, to distinguish his own amendments of what he quotes, and not those of an other man.

A is a wooden rod of rectangular section, to which are adapted two brackets, a{1} a{2}, lined with India rubber or leather; a{1} is fixed to the wood, a{2} is of metal, and, like the movable block of a slide gauge, moves along A.