Word: brays
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...city is at rest. The organ-grinders have retired to their downy couch, and the busy hum of trade is still. All is silent. But bark! From yonder splendid mansion peal forth the strains of revelry and mirth. It is the birthday of the fair young heiress, Adelia De Bray. Within is the gay music of the dance, the whirling figures of ravishing beauties, and the sparkling wine. Amidst all the joyous mirth moves Adelia the admired of all admirers. Wearied with constant flattery, she seeks, for a moment, the pure air of the outer heavens; and, as she gazes...
...Because they want to be the best. He-bray-ists in the country. Our Biblical editor admires the joke and dislikes to spoil it, but he must display his knowledge, and inform the author that it was n't that kind of ass at all. Vide Numbers xxii...
...draw back into his shell, and to decline controversy with us, because we are ladies. They need n't be so awfully afraid of us. Meanwhile the students of the stronger (?) sex perform what they call a "wood up." Before I came here I always supposed that the bray was the distinctive noise of the donkey; here it appears that the stamp...