"Brake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... horse powers at the brake, the motion of the engine was remarkably uniform; not the least diminution of speed in passing the centers could be detected, illustrating very satisfactorily the value, in this respect, of the speed employed, and of the action of the ...
— Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 • Various
... then the falling of our bed, that brake This morning, burden'd with the populous weight, Of our expecting clients, to salute us; Or running of the cat betwixt our legs, As we set forth unto the Capitol, ...
— Sejanus: His Fall • Ben Jonson
... melastomas, balsams, pothos plants, peppers, and gigantic climbing vines and orchids, were intermixed with speedwell, common bramble, forget-me-not, and stinging-nettles, just such as might have been met with in a European field! Tree ferns were seen rising up and towering high above the common brake-fern of the English moors; while the wild strawberry of Britain was seen covering the ground in patches of large extent. Its fruit, however, in the Himalayas is quite insipid, but a fine yellow raspberry—one of the most luscious fruits met with in these ...
— The Plant Hunters - Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains • Mayne Reid
... none, for that which was ours King Poseidon brake, driving it on a jutting rock on this coast, and we whom thou seest are all that are ...
— The Story Of The Odyssey • The Rev. Alfred J. Church
... across. He got his foot upon the side of the car and made his way along, holding the top of the block, while the dust rolled about him and he thought he would be jolted off. Indeed, there was only an inch-wide ledge of smooth iron to support his foot, which slipped once or twice; but he reached the brake-gear and screwed it down. Then, crawling back, he hooked on the spare coupling and returned, breathless and shaky, to his engine. A minute or two later he brought it to a stop and had got down upon the line ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss
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