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"Brownie" Quotes from Famous Books

... you are an electron in coil cd of Fig. 33 and "Brownie" is one in coil ab. Your motions are induced by his. What's true of you two is true of all the other electrons. I have separated the coils a little in this sketch so that you can think of a hedge ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills

... The brownie might or might not have heard; but, at any rate, he deigned no reply, and went on with his task, which was pounding seeds in a ...

— Fairy Book • Sophie May

... thick about the fire-side, he would desire them to make room for some others that stood by, though they did not see them, else some of them would be quickly thrown into the midst of it. But whether this man saw any more than Brownie and Meg Mullach, I am not very sure; some say, he saw more continually, and would often be very angry-like, and something troubled, nothing visibly moving him: others affirm he saw these two continually, ...

— Miscellanies upon Various Subjects • John Aubrey

... BROWNIE.—A salt-water turtle feeds upon the tough stems of sea-weeds, and upon crustacea and very small mollusks, but it might eat bits of bread and ...

— Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... so industrious that not a mouse has stirred if he could help it. However, I send three big kisses instead, and a pair of mittens for grandfather—worked with my own hands, because I wouldn't allow any good Brownie to do it for me. Tell Aunt Rachel I do see the Prince and Princess sometimes. I saw them at the theatre the other night. Yes, the theatre! You must not be shocked—we are rather gay in London—we go to the theatre occasionally. It is so interesting to meet all the great ...

— The Christian - A Story • Hall Caine

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