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Definition of Brawnier
1. brawny [adj] - See also: brawny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brawnier
Literary usage of Brawnier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"The gentler sex appeared generally " brawnier and more muscular than the men."
Speaking (apparently) of the children, he says, " all had the old, ..."
2. Southey by Edward Dowden (1880)
"... was head of the house ; and Southey, unprotected by his chief, stood exposed
to the tyranny of a fellow-boarder bigger and brawnier than himself, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"Some of the brawnier ruffians, hot with brandy, and mad for plunder, urged them
on again. My remaining platoon fired, with a precision worthy of a Prussian ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1841)
"At a recent meeting of the Philosophical Society of St. Andrew's, Sir David
brawnier exhibited a bottle of wine from the Royal George, which had been ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"Here came a "Tiger," browner than the brownest, brawnier than the brawniest,
shaggy, defiant, insolent, and "ugly"-looking, as he lounged by, ..."
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