Pike's tabular exhibit presents a certain Bras Casse; but this was a Sauk chief, otherwise Pockquinike.
Le Bras Casse, or Broken Arm, was a Sac chief whom Pike names Pockquinike in his folding Table of the Foxes and other Indians.
This petit Chibou, according to his description, is identical with what is now known as the Little Bras d'Or, or smaller passage to Bras d'Or Lake.
It seems probable that the great Cibou of the Indians was applied originally by them to what we now call the Great Bras d'Or, or larger passage to Bras d'Or Lake.
Alexander, a Scotsman in the Duch shipps, gave me 6 China picturs of saynts and our Lady, paynted upon bras leaves.
The latter intended to advance on Quatre-Bras at 2 o'clock, and debouch on St. Amand at 4 p.
Ney was now ordered to advance on Quatre-Bras at daybreak, and attack the British rear-guard, while Count Lobau was to proceed along the causeway of Namur, and take the British in flank.
We have seen the energy and ability displayed by John McDonald, of Garth, known as "Le Bras Croch.
The sobriquet, "Bras Croche" clung to him all his life as a fur trader.
From the time we first struck the Bras d'Or for thirty miles we rode in constant sight of its magnificent water.
What we first saw was an inlet of the Bras d'Or, called, by the driver, Hogamah Bay.
Sometimes we opened on a broad water plain bounded by the Watchabaktchkt hills, and again we looked over hill after hill receding into the soft and hazy blue of the land beyond the great mass of the Bras d'Or.
You can take the Intercolonial railway round to Pictou, catch the steamer for Port Hawkesbury, connect with the steamer on the Bras d'Or, and you are all right.
We should simply be delivered dead on the Bras d'Or; that is all.
Twelve miles from Baddeck we passed through the Barra Strait, or the Grand Narrows, a picturesque feature in the Bras d'Or, and came into its widest expanse.
The only other thing of note the Bras d'Or offered us before we reached West Bay was the finest show of medusm or jelly-fish that could be produced.
There was no prospect of any excitement or of any adventure on the steamboat from Baddeck to West Bay, the southern point of the Bras d'Or.
The intelligence of the reverses at Ligny and Quatre-Bras on the 16th and 17th of June reaches Alexander when he is thus employed; the Psalms console him and convince him of the justice of his cause.
Behind it lay the fertile côtes of the beautiful Bras d'Or, with open water stretching nearly to the Straits of Canso.
At St. Peter's word could be sent to Louisburg by way of the Bras d'Or Lakes.
The Bras d'Or lakes and the neighbouring seas supply an abundance of cod, mackerel, herring and whitefish, and the fisheries employ over 7000 men.
Numerous steamers, with Sydney as their headquarters, ply upon theBras d'Or lakes.
Controversy has been very keen on the question whether or not on the afternoon of the 15th Napoleon gave Ney verbal orders to occupy Quatre Bras the same evening.
His image might have appeared as imposing as the romantic forms of Baldwin Bras de Fer or Godfrey of Bouillon, had he not been misplaced in history.
Whow, have our 2 lesser bras fowlers with their 4 chambers.
Copendall brought 2 bras vessells of quicksilver ashore out of the Hozeander.
The Hollanders had a demi cannon of bras cast this day, po.
Coppendall he would com ashore to morrow and geve direction how to cast bras shivars and shot for ordinance, aledging the guner knew nothing for shott, nor no man else but hym selfe for the rest.
We laded all the bras shivers and shot abord the Hozeander this day.
And to the place where the corps (or ashes) are set, yow must assend up 8 or 9 steps or degrees, very lardge, made parte of gilded bras and parte of black wood or ebony.
And in the midest thereof is placed a greate bras Dibotes (or idoll), but nothing neare the greatenes of the former.
Yasimon Donos littell doughter came to vizet me and brought me a present of oringes, and I gave her a perfumed fan, a perfuming bras balle, and a bundell of paper.
Many of our new friends accompanied us to the wharf for a last goodbye, and then we were off, and next morning found us at Cape Breton Island once more, taking another boat to sail down the beautiful Bras D’Or lakes to Baddeck.
Beyond, the Great Bras d'Or broadens, an inland sea, the opposite shore almost out of vision, for the lake is eighteen miles across and fully fifty miles long.
From the Lennox Passage a short canal has been cut through the rocks into the southwestern extremity of the Bras d'Or, thus actually dividing Cape Breton into two islands.
Upon the verge of the northern Bras d'Or Lake, in a charming situation, is the little town of Baddeck, its houses scattered over the sloping hillsides and the church spires rising among the trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
