The men who were prepared to murder, were unwilling to fight, however strong the odds on their side; and the mustering of the Jacobin bravoes proved, on this occasion, an empty menace.
What matter though it be fairly stiff with low-browed bravoes in tall-shaped hats?
We therefore offer you the job of sitting in the outer room and intercepting these bravoes before they can reach us.
To understand this mistake of the doctor's, it should be known, that the bravoes by profession used to wear a long lock of hair, which they pulled over the face as a mask in enterprises that required prudence as well as strength.
Long before this, however, the alarm had been given to other personages of our story; the bravoes in one place; and Agnes and Perpetua in another.
The bravoes no longer caused him much uneasiness now that he felt confidence in their master.
The bravoes took, or appeared to take them, in the more serious sense.
The presence of the three bravoes at the inn was discussed, and the landlord was interrogated; but his memory was, on this point, as defective as ever.
With the garrison of bravoes which he kept at the castle he could defy an army, which he would have crushed in the valley beneath, before an individual could reach the summit.
They reached the castle; the bravoes who were on the esplanade and at the door, retired on both sides to leave the passage free.
We have seen nobravoes with poisoned stilettos, no masks, no wild carnival; but we have seen the ancient pride of Venice, the grim Bronze Horses that figure in a thousand legends.
Two or three hired bravoes would do: 'While one held Poulaillon by the throat in his study, the other would throw bags of money out of the window, and she would open the study door herself.
Madame de Brinvilliers had already tried to procure the assassination of the elder by two hired bravoes on the road to Orleans--one of those audacious strokes which to the end of her days she never ceased to devise.
In the next scene Stradella, Leonora, and the two bravoes are together in the same apartment, singing the praises of their native Italy.
The bravoes have been so moved by Stradella's singing that they hesitate in their purpose.
As my master walked through the streets, people pointed to him and said, "There goes the valiant man who ventured, singly, to encounter the flower of the bravoes of Andalusia.
Introducing thus several bravoes in the guise of servants, Codronchi suddenly poinarded Zocchejo at table, and with the assistance of his men seized the fort.
Had she even chosen to employ bravoes for the purpose, with the intention of leaving to them the responsibility of the deed, it might have been done far more safely in the palace than in the street.
By his touch he discovers the aperture, and glides into the hollow, at the very instant the two bravoes stepping forward quickly from either side of the tree, encounter each other's extended hands in front.
The casement is thrust open, and Bertrand with the two bravoes look into the cottage.
The bravoes release Florian to fly towards Bertrand, who sinks in their arms.
The door is burst, the two bravoes instantly spring upon Florian and grapple with him.
Cinthia returned; the four bravoes followed her, yawning, grumbling, and still half asleep.
Hugh noted that he was a tall, thin fellow, and that, unlike the rest, he had drawn no weapon, although it was at his signal that the other bravoes had rushed on.
Then, as all the bravoes had gone, they continued their march, filled with reflections, till they came to the little landing-stage where they had left the boat.
They came to the mouth of that street where the bravoes had waylaid them on the previous night, only to find that they could not pass this way.
Their English blood was up in a moment two masked figures and hearing them egging on their bravoes with 'Hola, there!
The archer had communicated to thebravoes that, though I received them in the Rue Prêtres St. Paul, I lodged myself at the Hôtel de Soissons.
I have sent no bravoes to assassinate you, Lieutenant.
He spoke more to himself than to the other, and there is reason to suppose that Don Agostino made arrangements to have Malvolti assassinated on his own responsibility; but the Italian avoided his bravoes for a time.
Bravoes and discarded serving-men, with swords at their sides,.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bravoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
