"Brattle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... yesday I wur saying to my Jacob as we'd get the poont mended, and come out here with the handbills and brattle [lop] all the willows anywhere nigh, so as to hev a lot to throost down about our plaace to grow. Now, if we'd done that there'd ha' been no branch to lay hold on here, and we might ha' gone on to Spalding afore we'd stopped. Eh, but howding ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn
... built in 1654, and stood on the southeast corner of Washington and Brattle streets, opposite the Samuel ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 2, November, 1884 • Various
... Bill Brattle, who is a resident of the settlement, came into the village, and said in Wilson's bar-room, "that he'd lived on the Barrens nigh on six years, and he'd never in all that 'ere time seed sich an allfired grist of huckleberries. Why there was acres on acres on 'em, and he didn't tell no lie when ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various
... blue lights in the eye-sockets of their skulls; the brown fellow, known as "the pirate's spuke," that used to cruise up and down the wrathful torrent, and was snuffed out of sight for some hours by old Peter Stuyvesant with a silver bullet; a black-looking scoundrel with a split lip, who used to brattle about the tavern at Corlaer's Hook, and who tumbled into East River while trying to lug an iron chest aboard of a suspicious craft that had stolen in to shore in a fog. This latter bogy was often seen riding up Hell Gate a-straddle of ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner |
