Lexicographical Neighbors of Broching
Literary usage of Broching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society (1901)
"It would appear that the place was renamed in later Saxon times and called broching
or Brooking, from the numerous streams and meadows which even now ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... °J these sing foolish Songs & Rimes in all the streets of the City, & broching
meere trifles with the Musicke of Drums, Harpes, ..."
3. The Works of John Marston by John Marston (1856)
"Whilst my tongues ty'de with bonds of blushing shame, For fear of broching my
concealed name ? Shall Balbus, the demure Athenian, Dreame of the death of ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"I know not what a devil thou menest, thou bringst me more in doubt. Hodge.
Knowest not with what Tom tailer's man sits broching ..."
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