There is no answer unless their function is to hear the bray of a fellow-ass....

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.

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

It is an easy matter when one's belly is full to declaim against fasting, Qui satur est pleno laudat jejunia ventre; "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass, or loweth the ox when he hath fodder?"

The happy kid wags its tail as it runs to its mother, the donkey when it has executed a successful bray, and the dog when it sees its master.

[Footnote 12: 'Battle bray:' ruinous civil wars of York and Lancaster.]

Ils ont des bottes qui montent jusqu'aux genoux, et de grandes braies (caleçons), qui pour les uns sont de velours cramoisi, pour d'autres de soie, de futaine, d'étoffes communes.

Through the street, on either side, Up flew windows, doors swung wide; Sharp-tongued spinsters, old wives gray, Treble lent the fish-horn's bray.

You've mistaken a bray for a roar, just as a lot of people always do, if the bray is only loud enough.

"Loud and far resounded the bray of the horns and the shocks of the lances, the mighty strokes of maces and the quick clashing of swords.

455 The meagre beast lay still as death; And Peter's lips with fury quiver; Quoth he, "You little mulish dog, I'll fling your carcass like a log Head-foremost down the river!" 460 An impious oath confirmed the threat Whereat from the earth on which he lay To all the echoes, south and north, And east and west, the Ass sent forth A long and clamorous bray!

The man's an assmust be an ass!let him bray his bray!

Why, he sorta brays.

At this crowning puerility Mr. Kaminer paused suddenly, as if he had detected in his laughter a bray.