Braved
[breivd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Brave
Edited by Colin
Examples
- They have braved the storms and sieges of three thousand years, and have been shaken by many an earthquake, but still they stand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His mother had braved hardship in order to separate herself from it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Have I not braved public opinion, THERE, with my own private reasons for it? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I braved him to do his worst. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- If he braved the matter out, death would unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But if he braved all the difficulties of getting his bread in some other way--will you give him the support of hope? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Had not this man braved him,--steadily, powerfully, resistlessly,--ever since he bought him? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Edited by Colin