Word: brazens
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...Such a brazen attempt to weaken, in our young minds, the influence of these time-honored sayings of our ancestors is in itself bad enough, and might be enlarged upon to a much greater extent, but that there is another and a more important side to the question. This other side is, perhaps, rather a matter of opinion as to expediency than anything else. If our modern Joshua is to perform his great act every morning, would it not be just as easy for him to do it twenty minutes earlier? It is anything but conducive to good digestion...
...prepared to hear edifying discussions and profound deductions from the data gathered during years of hard study. To his surprise, on entering a room, filled with smoke and men dressed in every variety of costume, from dressing jacket to cricket flannels, the conversation ran on entirely different subjects. "Would Brazen Nose 'bump' the boat ahead of her?" "What chances have our eleven next week?" and the like, were the topics under discussion...
...Williams Athenoeum, seemingly ignorant of the fact that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality...
...silly Assthete once determined to make a braying tour through the Provinces, so as to display his wonderful Mind. But his friends told him that the public would consider it a brazen Performance unless he presented a Certificate of Sanity and Respectability from some Respectable Almamater. So, meeting a venerable and discreet Almamater one day, he silly suggested that her Appearance would be greatly improved if she had but a Statue or two about her, adding that he himself happened to have one with him which he would only be too happy if she would condescend...
...wondrous, golden music streams from Venice's brazen bells...