You see we was brought up neighbors, an' we went to school together, the Brays an' me.
The Brays had always managed to keep one or two peach-trees alive in their corner of a garden.
On the side farthest from us the mules and horses are stabled, but one would never know that an animal was near if those big-headed mules did not occasionally raise their voices in brays that sound like old squeaky pumps.
The mule has never been found, and is probably in a far-away Indian village, where he brays in vain for the big rations of corn he used to get at the government corral.
Amasenus, that ryver and fresch flude, Abuf the brays bulryt as it war wod; From the clowdis was bryst sik spait of rayn The ryver flowis our the large plane.
Richt so, at this tyme, apon athir syde The clamour rays, that all the laik wyde And brays abowt thame answerd, so thai ferd, The hevyn our all eik rumlyt of ther rerd.
Thai sewch the fludis that, swouchand quhar thai fair, In sondyr slydis; ourweltyt eyk with arys, From thar forstammys the bullyr brays and raris.
And when the devil perceives that his people decrease, as do the hours which are in the night, after the vernal equinox which we have in March, then he begins to cry, to deplore greatly, as the ass does which brays and crys.
The use of charcoal was gradually given up as the art of smelting with coke andbrays improved, most probably aided by the increased power of the furnace-blast, until at length we find it entirely discontinued.
While in the rains he brays and says:--"I shall never get through all this fodder.
Damfino did not sound eight brays to announce the sun's meridian and the hour for barley, but we donks were considered sober enough to be packed by one o'clock, although in poor condition to travel.
They grunted and groaned on the march until noontime, and deplored their gluttony with sundry brays that were grating on the nerves.
And presently it did go on, and we rolled the asinine snowball into town amid the cheers and laughter of the children, the frightful brays of protestation from the imprisoned donkey, and the dumb consternation of the villagers.
The old family differences about religion had alienated the brother and sister so far intellectually that she accepted an invitation from the Brays to find a home with them.
The 17th April this year was an interesting day, as Miss Evans went with the Brays to Atherstone Hall, and met Harriet Martineau for the first time.
The Swiss correspondence which follows is chiefly addressed to the Brays collectively, and describes the life minutely.
It fortunately happened that the Brays had planned a trip to the Continent for this month of June, 1849, and Miss Evans, being left desolate by the death of her father, accepted their invitation to join them.
Here Miss Evans determined to remain for some months, the Brays returning home.
To the music ofbrays what harmonies couldst thou expect to get but cudgels?
In this way, doubling the brays at every step, they made the complete circuit of the forest, but the lost ass never gave them an answer or even the sign of one.
She had lost the little savings of years--the Brays had not allowed them to be very great; she had lost the money bequeathed to her by Mrs. Godolphin.
It was then that her kind friends the Brays took her for a tour on the Continent, to Italy and Switzerland.
Upon her return to England she made her home with the Brays at Rosehill for about a year, and then accepted the offer of Dr.
Her intimacy with the Brays began about the time when these new doubts were beginning to ferment in her.
Several times a day we are stunned and overwhelmed with the cracked brays of three discordant trumpets, as grating and doleful as the last gasps of a dying donkey.
I can imagine him, after his return to Beyrout, relating his adventures to a company of fellow-donkeys, who every now and then burst into tremendous brays at some of his irresistible dry sayings.
The braying of the ass, the thunder of the cloud, is an oracle; the ass that brays is a judge and a prophet.
But 'Phemie knew that Mrs. Castle's letter had come from an address in Easthampton which the Brays knew to be in a very good neighborhood.
The card printed in the corner included the number of Trimble Avenue right next to the big tenement house in which the Brays had lived before coming here to Hillcrest.
When he saw that she had finished her task he stretched his neck towards her and sent forth five or six brays .
When he heard his name he stopped licking her and lifting his head he sent forth five or six triumphant brays of happiness.
Mrs Brandon will tell the Brays of Lexville, when Mrs Bray will be shocked, and my beloved papa will no doubt leave me his curse; but, all the same, the Vinings will hear all about it.
Charley sat so long that he had to give up his projected ride, and sent a messenger with a note to say that Sir Philip and he would dine with the Brays at six, and accompany them afterwards to the opera.
There was no farther talk of going back to Blandfield Court till the Brays left town next week, and to all intents and purposes the Vinings lived in Harley-street.
Of course, the Brays would not sanction it; but, anyhow, it was another of Mr Maximilian Bray's conquests.
She had discovered that she was more acceptable to Celia when she left the Brays out of her conversation, just as she was more acceptable to Judith when she turned it upon the Comptons.
She supposed, when she came back the following year, that her relation with the Brays was now definitely established: one formal call from each party during the season.
The Brays have made me feel as if boiled cabbage were reeking from every house in the village, and I am to associate with them quite as with people I like?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
