"Bracer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and arrow, the archer needs to have a quiver, a bow case, a waterproof quiver case, an arm guard or bracer, and a shooting glove or leather finger tips. Our quivers are made of untanned deer hide, usually from deer shot with the bow. The hide, having been properly cleaned, stretched, and dried, is cut down the center, each half making a quiver. ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope
... "bracer" or arm guard of heavy leather for left arm with two laces to tie it on. It ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... you think so, my son. Just call down to the steward to bring me a bracer. Whew, just look ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
... Connery steered him into a saloon for medicine and bought him a stiff bracer of whisky and vermouth. But it only threw Gilfoyle into deeper befuddlement. He was like Charles Lamb, in that a thimbleful of alcohol affected him as much as a tumbler another. He wanted to tell his troubles to the barkeeper, and Connery had ...
— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes
... the paper-maker, and I may take to smoking cigars and drinking grog, or turn devotee and intoxicate the brain another way."[52] He adds that when he sets to work doggedly, he is exactly the same man he ever was, "neither low-spirited nor distrait," nay, that adversity is to him "a tonic and bracer." ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton
... stood on the shore and was about six inches in diameter and about sixteen feet in height. The boss of another group of beavers tested the tree by placing his fore-paws against the trunk and spreading out his hind legs as a bracer. He sat upon his tail and took a deliberate bite from the bark. No wonder Eleanor thought he was ...
— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... article made me ask where she got it. She replied that her sweetheart sent it to her by Mr. Gerry. I said nothing, but thought my sweetheart might have been equally kind considering the disease I was visited with, and that was recommended as a bracer." ...
— Woman's Life in Colonial Days • Carl Holliday
... things required by our archer: A smooth, hard arm-guard, or bracer, usually of hard leather. The Indians who use one make it of wood, grass, or rawhide. In photographs of famous Indians you may often see this on the left wrist, and will remember that it was there as a protection from the blow of the bow cord. Some archers can ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... thriftily. Wel cowde he dresse his takel yemanly; His arwes drowpede nought with fetheres lowe. And in his hond he bar a mighty bowe A not-heed hadde he with broun visage. Of wood-craft wel cowde he al the usage. Upon his arm he bar a gay bracer{23} And by his side a swerd and a bokeler, And on that other side a gay daggere, Harneysed wel, and scharp as poynt of spere; A Cristofre{24} on his brest of silver schene. An horn he bar, the bawdrik was of grene; A forster was he ...
— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin
... all weapons as of bronze, though many of the poets were living in an age of weapons of iron. It also prompted them to describe all shields as made on the far-away old Mycenaean model, though they were themselves used to small circular bucklers, with a bracer and a grip, ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... here to Tommy's and take a bracer," now suggested the hospitable Bulger. But again the ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
... say, I am exactly the same man that I ever was, neither low-spirited nor distrait. In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer; the fountain is awakened from its inmost recesses, as if the spirit of affliction had troubled it in ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott |
