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Definition of Brandishes
1. brandish [v] - See also: brandish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brandishes
Literary usage of Brandishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"With an overbearing and somewhat childish exultation he brandishes his fact; he
thrusts his idol on our captured worship; he glories in a bravo ..."
2. The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott (1878)
"Behold how he prances with his manly foot, and brandishes his blade, much as if
he were about to measure forth cambric with it. ..."
3. The Four in Crete by Gertrude Harper Beggs (1915)
"a fancy draped skirt, and a pinched-in waist very suggestive of a figure in a
show window. Another figure found with her, apparently a votaress, brandishes ..."
4. A Pilgrim's Reliquary by Thomas Henry White (1845)
"Madame, as usual, dangles the scales in one hand, and brandishes the sword in
the other: as usual too, she is blindfold, but no one who has looked at the ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Our poet brandishes no mimic sword, To rule a realm of dunces ... Yet ere from
patient slumber Satire wakes, And brandishes th' avenging scourge of snakes; ..."
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