"Brill" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tranto. No crude phrases, please. (Reads.) 'Mr. James Brill, to use the language of metaphor, possessed a pistol, which pistol he held point blank at the head of the Government. The Government has thought it wise to ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... after the clock in the steeple had struck ten. While ordering the waiter to bring him a mug of beer, Captain Allertssohn appeared with Junker von Warmond, who had taken part in the consultation at Peter Van der Werff's, and bravely earned his captain's sash two years before at the capture of Brill. As this son of one of the richest and most aristocratic families in Holland, a youth whose mother had borne the name of Egmont, entered, he drew his hand, encased in a fencing glove, from the captain's arm and said, countermanding ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... said, in a choking voice "What's that?" cried the old woman Mrs. Driver fell back before the emerging form of Mr. Bodfish Burleigh, with a feeling of nausea, drew back toward the door Gunn placed a hand, which lacked two fingers, on his breast and bowed again "Don't you think Major Brill is somewhat hasty in his conclusions?" she inquired softly He saw another tatterdemalion coming toward him "You say you're a doctor?" The second officer leaned forward "You get younger than ever, Mrs. Pullen," "We'll leave you two young ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... sent out at once as governor of Brill, and Sir Philip Sidney as governor of Flushing, these towns being handed over to England as guarantees by the Dutch. These two officers, with bodies of troops to serve as garrisons, took charge of ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty |
