Their keen intelligence had won them high honors in scholarship, and their brawn and muscle had achieved an enviable distinction in athletics.
He was a splendid physical machine of brawn and sinew and nerve and muscle.
Their cloths must not be pulled off, till the Collars have been three or four days out of the oven, least you pull off part of the Brawn with them.
If the Brawn be young, it will suffice eight hours or a little more in the oven.
To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.
Much the same is it with many other sinewy Saxonisms of this sort, which emigrated to New-England rocks with the noble brawn of the old English emigrants in the time of the Commonwealth.
The laws of brain and of brawn do not differ much in this respect.
Where it was admitted, the culprit, if a layman, did not entirely escape punishment, for he was burnt with a hot iron in the brawn of the left thumb.
Statute ordering such laymen as claimed it under charge of murder, to be burnt in thebrawn of the thumb with the letter M.
Sandys observes that "Brawn is a dish of great antiquity, and may be found in most of the old bills of fare for coronation and other great feasts.
Brawn is another dish of this season, and is sold by the poulterers, fishmongers, and pastry-cooks.
Printed by Simon Minc'd Pye for Cissely Plum-Porridge, and are to be sold by Ralph Fidler Chandler at the signe of the Pack of Cards in Mustard Alley in Brawn Street.
Abowne the kne gud Wallas has him tayne, Throw the and brawn in sondyr straik the bayne; Derffly to dede the knycht fell on the land.
Than ane Mawthland rakless betwix thaim past: 270 Apon the heid gud Wallace has him tane, Throuch hat and brawn in sondyr bryst the bane; Dede at that straik doun to the ground him drawe.
Ane othir braithly in the breyst he bar; 1435 Baith brawn and bayn the burly blaid throcht schar.
I cannot say that mere brawn ever entitles any man to rank, and that the white generally substitutes brain for brawn is obvious.
You are the brawn and the backbone of our free white Anglo-Saxon democracy, the flower of the world's peoples.
Brawn and mustard appear to be as inseparable as the boar’s head and mustard, and many directions respecting them may be found at early feasts.
Brawn is probably as old as boar’s head; but the inventor of such an arrangement of hogsflesh must have been a genius, and would have been a patentee in our days, and probably have formed a joint-stock brawn association.
The work to be performed demanded more brawn than brain and no vast amount of either.
Then was brought in the lusty brawn By old blue-coated serving man; Then the grim boar's-head frowned on high, Crested with bays and rosemary.
Delicate minced Pies, To feast every Virgin, Capon and Goose likewise, Brawn and a dish of Sturgeon.
It has ever been the great repository of morality, the balance- wheel of society, the brain and brawn of the majestic world.
Knowledge is power; brain not brawn is master throughout the world.
In Venus, too, the brawn stage preceded the sense period.
As we have developed through a brawn and sense period to our present stage, so in Mercury and Venus, ages have prevailed of development which eventuated in their final fixed stages at brawn and sense.
Souls leaving us in a brawn epoch have fled to Mercury, souls leaving us in a sense epoch have fled to Venus, and all souls in Mercury or Venus, ready for reincarnation in a scientific epoch, have come to us.
He recognized the spare but muscular form, allbrawn and bone and sinew; he recognized the long and pardlike bounds!
Half-way through the quarter the tide surged back on to Chester territory, with all that brawn thrown upon them.
Hutchings Really it looked as though the Tigers outclassed their opponents at the ratio of five to six, so far as weight and brawn went.
I said the other day that he was the whole brain and brawn of this war for reclamation.
Meaning the man who is the brain of it and the brawn of it; the heart and soul and glorious spirit of it; yes, and the pocket-book of it!
January 1712: "I see nothing here like Christmas, excepting brawn and mince pies in places where I dine, and giving away my half crowns like farthings to great men's porters and butlers.
The Schollers came into the Hall, where their hungry stomacks had thought to have found good Brawnand Christmas pies, Roast Beef and Plum-porridge; but no such matter.
What of the brawnthat should heave the guns on the beck of the drum?
Feed to Moloch and Baal the brawn and brains of men-- But silent and watchful and hidden forever over all The masters brood of those Mills that "grind exceeding small.
Picture: Merrington Church] XX THE surrounding districts anciently possessed a prime horror (which has lost nothing in the accumulated legends of centuries) in the “Brawn of Brancepeth.
At last the dish of brawn was cleared, and the old Maori drew himself up with a truly royal air.
With arm upraised, and a contorted face that alone was enough to frighten Mrs. Hirpington out of her wits, he plunged the knife into the unresisting brawn to its very hilt, utterly amazed to find neither blood nor bones to resist it.
Sometimes brawn and force weary us in Rome; wherefore we go into Egypt or the East to seek silky and subtle devilishness.
It had the stature and brawn of a man, but it managed its garments with the skill of a woman.
I gave you a technical skill--you furnished the brains, brawn and motivating force, a legend come to life.
Gritting teeth, he threw his tremendous brawn into a swing, and the pick tore loose from the tentacle and sprayed the guts out of the sphere before him.
Only the brawn of the Mink could win through the next hours.
