BRAGA • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Braga

... his plays and from the plays themselves. The labours of Dona Carolina Micha["e]lis de Vasconcellos, Dr Jos['e] Leite de Vasconcellos[7] and Snr Anselmo Braamcamp Freire are likely to provide us before long with the first critical edition of his plays. The ingenious suppositions of Dr Theophilo Braga[8] have, as usual, led to much discussion and research. He is the Mofina Mendes of critics, putting forward a hypothesis, translating it a few pages further on into a certainty and building rapidly on these foundations till an argument adduced or a document discovered by another critic ...

— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente

... father, who said: "Och, we'll take them as far as the Braga Rock anyway. If you'll come wi' us, Hal, we'll stow you snugly in the bow o' the Curlew, and you'll get a fine sail. What's an Orkney lad, whatever, if he's not to have a taste o' the dangers o' the sea? There's more for him to do than daunder about the hillside ...

— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton