"Braun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... further answered that her defense had been intrusted to an advocate by the name of Braun, "who is already in touch with the proper German ...
— The Case of Edith Cavell - A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants • James M. Beck
... 1820. When Baron van Braun expressed the opinion that the opera "Fidelio" would eventually win the enthusiasm of the upper tiers, Beethoven said, "I do not write for the galleries!" He never permitted himself to be persuaded to make concessions to the taste ...
— Beethoven: the Man and the Artist - As Revealed in his own Words • Ludwig van Beethoven
... remains of the temples having been discovered in 1848. The statue of Apoxyomenos, found a year since at Trastavere, as well as the series of Amazons in relievo now in the British Museum, which Emil Braun takes to be relics of the famous Mausoleum, are treated at length. A little triangular candelabra, found in the Baths of Titus, is made interesting from the relation of the figures upon it to the worship ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various
... thus:—"In Ross-dorf, in Hanover, lived the criminal Peter Natzer. He was by trade a glazier, his father having followed the same calling. Peter was five-and-twenty years old, and was, from his earliest youth, addicted to every species of crime. He had a sweetheart, named Lucie Braun, a ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
... other was inclined to be voluble. Whistler thought the skipper of the oil tender, Braun, had been drinking. "And when alcohol is in the brain wit is very likely to move out," ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson
... their flag its bravery; Their gleaming weapons, blue-dyed,[159] That havock'd on the cavalry. Macalister,[160] Mackinnon, With many a flashing trigger there, The foemen rushing in on, Resistless shew'd their vigour there. May fortune free thee—may we see thee Again in Braun,[161] the turreted, Girt with thy clan! And not a man But will get the scorn he merited. Then wine will play, and usquebae From flaggons, and from badalan,[162] And pipers scream—when Staghead High raises his ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes I-VI. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various
... This is perhaps the drawing in the Bounat collection at Paris; it has been photographed by Braun (see illus. opposite).] ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore |
