A man who formerly not only did not drink out of silver vessels, but who had not brazen ones either, but was content with the commonest earthenware, and even that very often cracked and chipped.
And that water is best which is of a moderate heat or coldness, and which, when poured into a brazen or silver vessel, does not produce a blackish sediment.
But formerly even those men who were accounted exceedingly rich used to drink out of brazen goblets, and the repositories where they put them away they called =chalkothêkai=.
And presently he tells us that the chest was a brazen one--"But when I wished last year to repair it I gave it to a brazier; for it is well put together, and has the faces of Satyrs and large heads of oxen carved upon it.
And Semus the Delian says--"A brazen tripod, not the Pythian one, but that which they now call a bowl.
For that they were in the habit of drinking warm water Eupolis proves, in his Demi-- Warm for us now the brazen ewer quick, And bid the slaves prepare the victims new, That we may feast upon the entrails.
And Theopompus uses the following language--"For anciently the temple was adorned with brazen offerings: I do not mean statues, but caldrons and tripods made of brass.
Footnote 695: I have not found any other mention of thesebrazen elephants.
This is to be much regretted, that whereas these animals live in the flesh more than a thousand years, their brazen effigies should be so soon crumbling away.
We are much displeased at hearing that a brazen statue has been stolen from the City of Como.
We regret to learn from your report that the brazen elephants placed in the Via Sacra[695] (so called from the many superstitions to which it was consecrated of old) are falling into ruins.
Honorius ordered to see to preservation of brazen elephants at Rome, x.
Once more I caught Nyleptha's eye; it was fixed upon the brazen flooring.
And now before us are the huge brazen gates of the outer wall of the Frowning City, and a new and horrible doubt strikes me: What if they will not let us in?
We took our stand upon the brazen space, little knowing what was prepared for us beneath, but I noticed a curious hissing sound proceeding apparently from the floor for which I could not account.
And so, a few minutes before sunset, on the third night after his death, they laid him on the brazen flooring before the altar, and waited for the last ray of the setting sun to fall upon his face.
On we passed down a lane cut through the heart of the human mass, till presently we stood upon the brazen patch of flooring to the east of the central altar, and immediately facing it.
Then I guessed that she meant us to move back off thebrazen floor.
From my eye it travelled down to the brazen flooring, on the outer edge of which we stood.
As has been said, they believed that the spirit of the god inhabited the idol; the frown of the brazen image was the frown of the wicked demon.
In the circuit of the wall are a hundred gates, all of brass, with brazen lintels and side posts.
VIII The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.
Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
On the first day were carried in procession, armour, weapons, brazen and marble statues of which he had taken greater numbers from Philip than from the states of Greece.
Others of the Aetolians, who had collected together round the Chalciaecon, that is, the brazentemple of Minerva, were cut to pieces.
They also celebrated the Roman games in a magnificent manner, repeating them a second day; and erected in the treasury five brazen statues out of the money paid as fines.
Let no one, however, be deceived by dogmatic assertions and brazen assurances that the questions are decided, settled, and generally recognised.
And the shadow rested upon the brazen doorway, and under the arch of the entablature of the door and moved not, nor spoke any word, but there became stationary and remained.
Ephraim wore list slippers and coats of duster-cloth, so preposterously patterned that the most brazen of British subalterns would have shied from them in fear.
I went out to-night to take a quiet walk upon this place, and the horrid brazen discord of these trumpeters set me half mad.
Three or four of the snorting, galloping monsters had just finished their journey, and there was a quantity of flaming ashes lying under the brazen bellies of each that looked properly lurid and demoniacal.
While the aforesaid intellectual status causes us to pity our fellows and at times to laugh at their expense, brazen assumption of knowledge, which is far more common, is often positively exasperating.
Now through the ocean plunge the brazen prores; They pass the threshold of the world congeal'd; Surprise the snorting mammoths of the main; And pile the decks with Pelions of the slain.
And now the bark the Cymrian prince ascends, 92 The large oars chiming to the chanting crew, (His leal Norwegian band) the new-found friends From brazen trumpets blare their loud adieu.
Remembering the coolly brazen line I had taken and the assumptions she had drawn from it, I could think of no desert wide enough to hide my confusion, no pit sufficiently deep to shelter my utterly crestfallen head.
I didn't say that," he denied as unresponsively as a brazen Vishnu.
Telemachus flew to the room where the royal armor lay, and brought with him four brazen helmets, eight shining spears, and four broad shields.
Almost at the same moment Amphinomus rushed forward to the attack, but Telemachus drove his brazen spear through the breast of the fierce foe, who fell crashing to the stones.
The great bells of the city clashed out the hour of noon with brazen clamor.
That Acrisius did well To lock such beauty in a brazen tower And hide it from all eyes.
On the spire of the bell Decked with a brazen cock, the friendly flames of the Spring-sun Glanced like the tongues of fire, beheld by Apostles aforetime.
Down this he passed into a spacious hall, Lit by a flaming jewel on the wall; And opposite in threatening attitude With bow and shaft a brazen statue stood.
Then the sombre village crier, Ringing loud his brazen bell, Wandered down the street proclaiming There was an estray to sell.
With loud and dissonant clangor Echoed the sound of their brazen drums from ceiling and casement,-- Echoed a moment only, and slowly the ponderous portal Closed, and in silence the crowd awaited the will of the soldiers.
It is not subtle, but in its brazen clap, I can find reason to rejoice; I live in the shadows of a wondrous and beautiful world, yet thunder is one element of nature from which I have not been excluded, for it penetrates walls.
Though your matches flare in the midnight air, And your brazen trumpets sound!
As mighty brazenwings sounded the roaring of the tempest-churned seas.
Tristan saw the blood weltering slowly from the self-inflicted wound, trickling drop by drop into the brazen bowl, which another muffled figure was holding.
He saw a stone table, lighted with a single taper, in the centre of which lay an unsheathed dagger, and an object the exact character of which he could not determine in the half gloom, also a brazen bowl.
There were dim and mysterious mirrors, before which stood brazen tripods whose fumes, as they wreathed upward, gleamed with dusky fires.
When the brazentongue from the Capitol tolls the hour, the blow shall fall," Basil replied.
Fear not, I say, for I, who have pored over those mystic characters till me eyes grew dim, can read your sweet pale face as plainly as the brazen tablets in the Forum, and I can see in it sorrow and care and anxiety for one you love.
It required only the brazen storm of bells that just then broke overhead to complete the atmosphere of savage medievalism.
To which she added the brazen confession, "Or I would not have done it.
Carlotta Hibberdell, you're the mostbrazen creature I ever knew!
You've simply indulged in another vile relationship because you wanted to, and now when you're caught you brazen it out.
Anon she gathered handfuls of dry dust, Then, holding high a well-wrought brazen urn, Thrice on the dead she poured a lustral stream.
So having reached the abrupt Earth-rooted Threshold with its brazen stairs, He paused at one of the converging paths, Hard by the rocky basin which records The pact of Theseus and Peirithous.
And a student at heart he did remain, and a dreamer also whenever the thunder of the brazen chariots of the world around him left him any peaceful moment in which to enjoy silence and remember the dreams of his youth.
Where were the visions he had had of a life out of the world, poetic, unworldly, tuned to another key than the brazen clangour of society?
There is no middle path for those who once have left the cool secluded ways of privacy and joined the crowd which pushes at the brazen gates of fame.
Or would time give her that brazen disk of which Rosselin had spoken, and with it the heart of bronze which all must have instead of a heart of flesh and blood if they would go triumphant through the heat and pressure of the world?
Selfishness and tyranny no longer wear the mask; they walk haughtily abroad, affronting with their hard-hearted boasts and brazen resolves the patience of the sweet heavens.
What her Grace of Gloucester had won by submission and ingratiating arts, she had won by brazen defiance and importunity.
The Countess was not long before her brazen effrontery carried her back to Court, where she took the lead in the revels and at the gaming-tables, and made love to the "Merrie Monarch" himself.
Indeed, even more remarkable than the viciousness of his life, was the brazen openness with which he flaunted it in the face of the world.
But the Countess and her paramour smiled at the storm they had brought on their heads, and with brazen insolence flaunted their amour in the face of the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brazen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
