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Slaves clad in costumes of the richest workmanship and design abased themselves on either side of her, and I heard the clash of brazen cymbals and war-like music, as the crowd of people surged and swayed, and murmured and shouted, all apparently moved by some special excitement or interest.
He's got a towering intellect, I tell you. I'll give you fifty cents for this, if you'll color it up nice for me and throw in a frame. Of course I took the picture away from the brazen creature and told her what I thought of her conduct. 'Well, you air techy, she said, and walked off leisurely." Before closing her letter, Mrs.
"I find it almost as attractive by day as it was by night." "Brazen!" cried Mrs. Jardine. "Choose your words carefully," said Kate. "I was here first; since you have delivered your message, suppose you go and leave me to my view." "Not till I get ready," said Mrs. Jardine.
Monsieur Voltaire began to describe this soft beauty to her as only he could describe it; but she seemed careless of it and said: "I saw it but a little while ago and thought how unlovely it was the moon looked brazen and haughty, like some of those fine ladies who come to see me act when they have nothing better to do.
Her mother's gentlemen friends she valued according to their status in the house, and, as they "fell off" or "came on," so was her manner indifferent or pleasant. For Hortense, she had a real respect, but even that improper and brazen spirit quailed at times before her cynical and elfish regard.
Now this desire, as I said, is a desire that hath a long neck; for it can look over the brazen wall of this, quite into another world; and as it hath a long neck, so it is very forcible and mighty in its operation. This desire makes a married man live as if he had no wife; a rich man lives as if he possessed not what he has, &c. This is a soul-sequestering desire.
Although he knows how his medicine is made, knows that it is a nauseous compound of rank hypocrisy and brazen mendacity he actually believes that, if taken in liberal doses, it is potent to cure commercial paralysis or put new life into a political corpse. When the first experiment fails to prove satisfactory, instead of changing the treatment he doubles the dose.
Even the newspaper editors and proprietors are more despotic and dangerous by what they do not utter than by what they do. We have all heard the expression "golden silence." The expression "brazen silence" is the only adequate phrase for our editors. If we wake out of this throttled, gaping, and wordless nightmare, we must awake with a yell.
Just as the brazen brutes fancied themselves sure of tossing him into the air he caught one of them by the horn and the other by his screwed-up tail and held them in a grip like that of an iron vise, one with his right hand, the other with his left. Well, he must have been wonderfully strong in his arms, to be sure!
A brazen lie was the safe way, he decided. "We have passed a very good night," declared he. "My companions are getting ready.... I am going to see if the car is in order for our start." To himself Fandor added: "As my little priest's window looks in the opposite direction he cannot see what I am up to." Fandor was an expert chauffeur.
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