"Brash" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "No: you're too brash. You wouldn't know when to quit. No: you stay right here. Don't say anything to Flaxen about it; if she wants to know where I'm gone, tell her I found ...
— A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen • Hamlin Garland
... was nae manager—no that he was a very great misguider—but he hadna the saving gift, and he got twa terms' rent in arrear. He got the first brash at Whitsunday put ower wi' fair word and piping; but when Martinmas came, there was a summons from the grund-officer to come wi' the rent on a day preceese, or else Steenie behoved to flit. Sair wark he had to get the siller; but he was ...
— The Haunters & The Haunted - Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural • Various
... Gimp?" Dave Lester put in, trying to sound as brash and bold as the others, instead of ...
— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun
... which it is to be eaten, take the fish about four o'clock in the afternoon, and put it into a kettle of cold water. Then place it within the kitchen fire-place, so as to keep it blood-warm. Next morning at ten, take out the fish, scrub it clean with a hard brash, and put it into a kettle of fresh cold water, into which a jill of molasses has been stirred. The molasses will be found an improvement. Place the kettle again near the fire, until about twenty minutes before dinner. Then hang it over the fire, and boil ...
— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie |
