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Definition of Brayed
1. bray [v] - See also: bray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brayed
Literary usage of Brayed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"And they'd tell tales in th' Sunday- school o' bad lads as had been thumped and
brayed for bird-nesting o' Sundays and playin' truant o' week-days, ..."
2. The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (1887)
"... quarrelsome by the original discord of his nature—* slave by tenure oí hie
own baseness—made to bray and be brayed at, to despise and be despicable. ..."
3. English Hymns: Their Authors and History by Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1886)
"If the lamp had burned, or if the ass had brayed, or if the cock had crowed, he
would have been noticed, and might have been instantly killed. ..."
4. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt (1921)
"Now let all Americans in their turn stand by the Red Cross and help in its
Christmas membership drive. BEING brayed IN A MORTAR DECEMBER 18, 1917 PRESIDENT ..."
5. Pathways in Nature and Literature: First [second] Reader by Sarah Row Christy, Edward Richard Shaw (1903)
""And so we are all running away together," meowed the cat. " Come with us," brayed
the donkey. "You can sing. Let us all go to town and sing for a living. ..."
6. History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth by William Robertson (1857)
"... the people, brayed three times like an ass; and the people, instead of the
usual response, " We bless the Lord," brayed three times in the same manner. ..."
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