Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbraving
Literary usage of Outbraving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of Researches in by Isaac Disraeli (1824)
"On this first day the duke sat out-facing his accusers and outbraving their
accusations, which the more highly exasperated the house. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"And as for a very handsome youth turning himself into a he-goat, in order to
exhibit his prowess in outbraving and beating the men of the whole congregation ..."
3. Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries by William Fordyce Mavor (1802)
"... the multiplied precautions of fires, dogs, and . guards, caa fave the flocks
from his ravages. outbraving all terrors, he will ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"phj tells us, to live in the country, on a small estate which he hid inherited
from his mother, and at once set about dazzling said outbraving the squires ..."
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