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  • Because both my brother and I could speak German and because the full villainy of the Germans was not yet evident, we brazenly questioned every German we thought might know something.†   (source)
  • Rose was more brazen.†   (source)
  • Pelor lifted his head, glaring at the Weapons Master with surprising brazenness.†   (source)
  • My mother was not a brazen character.†   (source)
  • Then she rose again, brazen with her various sins—pride, gluttony, avarice, uncooperativeness—and for each she paid with a life.†   (source)
  • "If you will come courting such a headstrong, brazen girl," he said indulgently, "then I can only give you both my blessing.†   (source)
  • It was so brazen.†   (source)
  • How could Pedro dare to be so brazen!†   (source)
  • The short one seemed fidgety, his eyes darting, as if he'd lost his brazenness from before, and Thomas wondered if a trip to what they'd called the Central Zone always did that to a person.†   (source)
  • The Lannister trumpets answered, da-DA da-DA da-DAAAAAAAAA, brazen and defiant, yet it seemed to Tyrion that they sounded somehow smaller, more anxious.†   (source)
  • As he wandered around I stood lookout at the head of the aisle, so shaky with nerves I sometimes worried I would black out—but soon I was filling my own pockets with apples and chocolate (other favored food items of Boris's) before walking up brazenly to the counter to buy bread and milk and other items too big to steal.†   (source)
  • My stomach flips as I see that word—Love—printed so brazenly on a book cover.†   (source)
  • Holly's voice came through the speaker then, typically brazen in the face of danger.†   (source)
  • Wendy screamed aloud, the sound of her cry insignificant against the blare issuing from those brazen lungs.†   (source)
  • Why doesn't the world just open its jaws like a whale and swallow this brazenness in one gulp? is the question I'd pose to Father these days.†   (source)
  • So on a late September day in 1941, he left his house feeling a little brazen.†   (source)
  • To "look in a man's face" is a brazen thing to do.†   (source)
  • The only way to keep from bleeding out is to take a stand against those who have already harmed you so that others will not be so brazen.†   (source)
  • As the city emptied out, the looting likely grew more brazen and engulfed neighborhoods like Uptown.†   (source)
  • At times, the meatpacking firms have been especially brazen in assuming that public funds will cover their routine business costs.†   (source)
  • I'd felt so brazen tonight, like the Halloween costume had imbued me with a new personality, one more worthy of Adam, of my family.†   (source)
  • And if by some chance I was the most brazen con man he'd ever stopped, well, he wasn't taking this any further.†   (source)
  • He said yes, which I said was bold of them, and didn't it scare away the young men, as who would want a wife like that, writing things down for everyone to see, and made-up things at that, and I would never be so brazen.†   (source)
  • The woman was surprisingly ugly—brazenly, beyond the scope of everyday ugly: tiny round eyes set tight as buttons, a long twist of a nose, skin spackled with tiny bumps, long lank hair the color of a dust bunny.†   (source)
  • Even for you, this is a brazen act of aggression.†   (source)
  • Nasuada was replying when the brazen horn that had announced the arrival of the soldiers sounded once more, so loudly that Eragon, Arya, and the rest of the elves covered their ears.†   (source)
  • While Beans and Mutto waited, sitting brazenly across the street on Dorothy's front steps, he led Henry into his house.†   (source)
  • They were determined to lessen her influence and did it with a brazen and shameless act: they sent her into internal exile.†   (source)
  • When I meet her eyes, brazen as a sailor fresh into port, she opens her mouth, as if to rip into me.†   (source)
  • As the two girls came up, Johnnie looked at the wide, clear, plate windows, the brass railing that guarded the heavy granite approach, the shining name "Hardwick" deep-set in brazen lettering on the step over which they entered.†   (source)
  • There are any number of possibilities, from brazen to subtle.†   (source)
  • So much that was brazen, hectic, loud, raw, and coarse.†   (source)
  • Carroll later said that "amazed" him: How brazen was this man, who didn't run at the sight of the police?†   (source)
  • She feels halfway clever and inventive and maybe slightly intrusive as well, a little bit of brazenness that spices any game.†   (source)
  • Yet Sunitha brazenly marched into the red-light districts and started her own organization, in a way emblematic of social entrepreneurs.†   (source)
  • She loves Felicity's brazenness.†   (source)
  • In the parable, Jesus told how a man's son brazenly asked for his inheritance while his father was still alive, a rebellious and selfish thing to do.†   (source)
  • I'd opened the shutters—brazenly—and the light streamed across her hair, making it gold.†   (source)
  • Miss Fontaine and Miss Wyman found themselves upstaged by a most brazen amateur.†   (source)
  • She spoke very little, and had lost that fresh, brazen laughter that was the first thing I had liked about her.†   (source)
  • The chaplain braced himself with a prodigious effort of the will and plunged ahead brazenly.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't lie so brazenly to your daddy?†   (source)
  • A brazen act of defiance?†   (source)
  • And here it was, staring him in the face as a claim by a brazen man who was either totally deluded or who knew more than any man had any business knowing.†   (source)
  • I felt completely at ease, and I somewhat brazenly smiled and nodded, as if to indicate that I had enjoyed his words, or at least the gematriya part of his words.†   (source)
  • Jake began to breathe normally again, though he was still shaken by the brazenness of Sistrunk and his ideas.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether to admire the brazenness, or be angry you take me for such a fool."†   (source)
  • Ye third item, we set down, that on the same day from the same house thou didst take two brazen candlesticks, cunning wrought.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, regardless of the stakes, it made no sense for a corporation to protect its interests with hit men brazen enough to shoot at people in public places—or anywhere else, for that matter.†   (source)
  • But she had chosen this man's side against him, and in his fury, he tried to stamp out what had hurt him the most and was now brazenly taunting him—her disobedience.†   (source)
  • Rowan's provocations have been so brazen that news of my impending visit nearly triggered an uprising in Blys.†   (source)
  • And while the president would be a fool to damage their marriage (and his career) by a brazen act of public infidelity, there are moments when this normally pragmatic man is helplessly self-destructive.†   (source)
  • At our last meeting, Ivy Starnes was the one who tried to brazen it out.†   (source)
  • At the far end of the bridge the walls of the city towered high above them and the brazen gates stood open in the gateway which was really wide but looked narrow because it was so very high.†   (source)
  • Brazen it out, she told herself.†   (source)
  • Brazen trumpets sounded.†   (source)
  • "Too brazen to even blush," Mrs. Predmore told Mama.†   (source)
  • Its marvelous fertility and brazen health, its deep, brilliant greenness altered and waned almost daily, as winter with its chilly nights and the slow cooling of the Atlantic started to settle into each stem and living thing in the marsh.†   (source)
  • There are the as-ifcompeting pairs of lady walkers, neon-headbanded and sweat-suited, marching in their bulbous, ice-white cross-training shoes up and down the main avenue, strutting brazenly in front of the suddenly tolerant, halting weekend traffic.†   (source)
  • Their shorts were as tight as surgeons' gloves, and they were so severely and brazenly entangled in one another that it was impossible to tell his smooth and hairless limbs from hers.†   (source)
  • The canvas canopy sheltered the white-skinned Whitshank grown-ups, but the in-laws sat brazenly in the sun.†   (source)
  • No brazen sun.†   (source)
  • Then she began to look boldly at people — she stared, even — finding that this brazenness made them look away.†   (source)
  • There he was, brazenly immodest in checked red and black pajamas, sitting on his front steps, knees akimbo and binoculars pressed to his eyes.†   (source)
  • She had sensed the audaciousness, even the brazenness of the letter as she read it; one or the other, or perhaps simple stupidity, had to impel such a communication from an insignificant parish priest to the Commandant of Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • He had been tricked, not celebrated, by the parade's brazen marching up his street with the band playing, and we had somehow been tricked by envying him—betrayed into it.†   (source)
  • There were moments that afternoon when Leamas was so brazenly perverse that Ashe would have been justified in terminating their conversation—especially since he was paying; but he did not.†   (source)
  • For not only the Reds but also Germany and Austria are raising their brazen heads once again.†   (source)
  • And this filled him for a moment with a holy rage? that she stood, so brazen, in the congregation of the righteous and refused to bow her head.†   (source)
  • Prejudgment on the part of most Senators was brazenly announced.†   (source)
  • She hated the exposed fleshiness of them, their soft brown bodies and soft bashful faces that were also insolent and inquisitive, and their chattering voices that held a brazen fleshy undertone.†   (source)
  • Never before had he encountered such a brazen insult.†   (source)
  • "I'm Alaska Young's brother," the Colonel announced brazenly.†   (source)
  • He spoke carefully, almost tentatively, yet his treason had been so brazen.†   (source)
  • A brazen knock on her chamber door disturbed her thoughts.†   (source)
  • Trumpets sounded from among them, tiny and brazen, soon swallowed by the roar of a thousand shouts.†   (source)
  • Except whereas before they'd been friendly, now they were brazen in their flirting.†   (source)
  • He had brazenly slept upon the carpet and stoked the stoves until they whitened like blast furnaces.†   (source)
  • "The Happy Port is where all the porters go," Cat assured the men of the Brazen Monkey.†   (source)
  • Corporal Whitcomb grinned brazenly with scornful satisfaction.†   (source)
  • A fanfare of brazen trumpets greeted each of the heroes as he stepped between the great oaken doors.†   (source)
  • Trumpets were blowing all around, loud and brazen.†   (source)
  • He pulled his brazen wolf's mask down over his face.†   (source)
  • The more helpless and vulnerable Ira grew, the more brazen was the press's exploitation of him.†   (source)
  • Sam hurled himself against the bolted brazen plates and fell senseless to the ground.†   (source)
  • The trumpets made a brazen blare, and cut the still blue air of dusk.†   (source)
  • Everything required to be a Brazen Beast.†   (source)
  • Before them stood two Brazen Beasts, armed with cudgels, spears, and short swords.†   (source)
  • Cat lifted her barrow and wheeled away from the Brazen Monkey, bumping over cobblestones.†   (source)
  • "If I send the Brazen Beasts into the pyramids, it will mean open war inside the city.†   (source)
  • A Brazen Beast in a boar mask had offered the litter bearer a skin of water.†   (source)
  • And if I give you the Unsullied, I will have no one but the Brazen Beasts to hold Meereen."†   (source)
  • One of the Brazen Beasts ripped off his brass hawk's mask and began to spew up his breakfast.†   (source)
  • The Shavepate was accompanied by two of his Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • She told him of the Harpy's Sons and the Brazen Beasts, of blood upon the bricks.†   (source)
  • It took six Brazen Beasts to pull them apart and drag them from the hall.†   (source)
  • The Brazen Beasts fell in behind Ser Barristan as he continued his descent.†   (source)
  • Laughing, Hildy gave Jaime a brazen look.†   (source)
  • The door burst inward, and Skahaz mo Kandaq stormed in with four Brazen Beasts behind him.†   (source)
  • "Just make certain I do not need to deal with any Brazen Beasts as well."†   (source)
  • For every Brazen Beast cut down, he would have a child die."†   (source)
  • The man wore the mask of a Brazen Beast, the fearsome likeness of a tiger.†   (source)
  • I told you, the Brazen Beasts are mine."†   (source)
  • She needed Skahaz and the Brazen Beasts, and she had come to mistrust all of Reznak's counsel.†   (source)
  • By now, the Brazen Beasts should have disarmed Steelskin.†   (source)
  • Grey Worm was there for the Unsullied, Skahaz mo Kandaq for the Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • "We chanced upon some Brazen Beasts and Meris asked them prettily.†   (source)
  • Four Brazen Beasts stood guarding the door.†   (source)
  • Your Brazen Beasts will keep me safe from any harm."†   (source)
  • It would not serve to have the wrong Brazen Beast hear of this.†   (source)
  • Up and down the length of the hall, Brazen Beasts lowered their spears.†   (source)
  • The Shavepate's eyes were black pools behind the brazen cat mask.†   (source)
  • "Half of these Brazen Beasts are untried freedmen."†   (source)
  • "How should Meereen ever come to trust the Brazen Beasts if I do not?†   (source)
  • The brazen mask beneath his arm was new—a wolf's head with lolling tongue.†   (source)
  • Behind the drum marched Brazen Beasts four abreast.†   (source)
  • But he simply held his ground there in the doorway, brazening it out as the train darted on.†   (source)
  • He was in the deep dark outside the under-gate of the orcs' stronghold; its brazen doors were shut.†   (source)
  • He would be amazed by how little has fundamentally changed over the past century, by how poor immigrant workers are still routinely being injured, and by how the industry's lies, no matter how brazen, are still said with a straight face.†   (source)
  • Our home itself will be taken over by a noisy couple, hubby-wife lawyers who are shamelessly, brazenly gleeful at this buyers'-market deal.†   (source)
  • She had been imagining the scene of a crime, a Gothic cathedral, whose flamboyant vaulting would be flooded with brazen light of scarlet and indigo from a stained-glass backdrop of lurid suffering.†   (source)
  • The children of Hermes and Mercury laughed and told stories and brazenly stole things from just about everyone.†   (source)
  • He had unfastened one of the buckles and was picking at the other when the brazen call of a horn rang forth from the head of the Varden, sounding the advance.†   (source)
  • It was no secret that Patricia ruled the castle, but Qurong wouldn't tolerate brazenness in front of his men.†   (source)
  • They fear my Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • I grabbed for either side of the open French doors and braced myself, casting myself forward and clearly inviting his ardor, the hem of my nightgown riding on my hips, his brazen intentions driving me to my toes, my knees quivering, my heart racing.†   (source)
  • "What does that mean?" said Mr. McDaniels, kicking his foot out at a particularly brazen young goblin.†   (source)
  • Atop its great square tower a fire blazed in an iron brazier twenty feet across, whilst smaller fires flanked its brazen doors.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere I have more stamina for these things, these acts of self-exposure; I could brazen them out.†   (source)
  • They heard the music before they saw the castle; the distant rattle of drums, the brazen blare of horns, the thin skirling of pipes faint beneath the growl of the river and the sound of the rain beating on their heads.†   (source)
  • It is a brazen and brilliant tactic.†   (source)
  • The quiet that rested around their door on the weekends hinted of all sorts of secret rituals, and their friendly indifference to the men on the street was an insult to the women as a brazen flaunting of unnatural ways.†   (source)
  • Ordinarily, we have no difficulty at all distinguishing, in a blink, between someone who is suspicious and someone who is not, between someone brazen and someone curious, and, most easily of all, between someone terrified and someone dangerous; anyone who walks down a city street late at night makes those kinds of instantaneous calculations constantly.†   (source)
  • Although the Klan would never quite die, especially down south—David Duke, a smooth-talking Klan leader from Louisiana, mounted substantive bids for the U.S. Senate and other offices—it was certainly handicapped, at least in the short term, by Kennedy's brazen dissemination of inside information.†   (source)
  • The suitcase lay there wide open, brazen as you please, and he closed it and bent to slide it underneath the bed, way back toward the wall.†   (source)
  • Which meant a frontal assault—a brazen fool's charge over open ground toward walls too thick to breach and too tall to climb while archers and war machines shot at them the whole time.†   (source)
  • Not enough to convince the French and the British, but enough to exchange a few rounds with some pretty powerful people before being sent packing, for his brazen approach to diplomacy as much as anything.†   (source)
  • Walking closer to the portcullis, Max stared through the bars at the brazen youth sitting astride his coal-black courser.†   (source)
  • Every blinding flash imprinted a motionless scene upon Roran's eyes that lingered, pulsing, long after the brazen bolts vanished.†   (source)
  • The statement was wistfully, timidly made; yet to Gray Stoddard it seemed a brazen defence of her present course.†   (source)
  • Diallo wasn't brazen.†   (source)
  • Through the steel and padding of his helm, he heard anguished screams, the hungry crackle of flame, the shuddering of warhorns, and the brazen blast of trumpets.†   (source)
  • For example, one word, "bellezza," after rotating like a sparkling pinwheel, stopped and drew back like a woman who brazenly asks to be admired.†   (source)
  • His scarlet robes were tattered, his corslet of overlapping brazen plates was rent and hewn, his black plaits of hair braided with gold were drenched with blood.†   (source)
  • Possibly Red had been hoping to sit next to her in the theater (it was common knowledge that he had a little crush on her), but she took one glance at Dane, at his forbidding scowl and his defensively hunched shoulders, and then stepped between him and her friend Ruth like the most brazen hussy (as Ruth said teasingly later).†   (source)
  • In fact, her father had already given his blessing to another suitor and did not approve a match to the brazen young sorcerer.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly the cry of brazen-throated trumpets was heard: from the watch-towers they blared, and far away from hidden holds and outposts in the hills came answering calls; and further still, remote but deep and ominous, there echoed in the hollow land beyond the mighty horns and drums of Barad-dur.†   (source)
  • It made her angry to see Dareon sitting there so brazen, making eyes at Lanna as his fingers danced across the harp strings.†   (source)
  • Cat knew that the men off the Brazen Monkey would not care about the name of a courtesan's mother, though.†   (source)
  • The little Brazen Monkey proved to be from Gulltown, with a Westerosi crew who were glad to talk to someone in the Common Tongue.†   (source)
  • She saw huge flat-bottomed barges too, heaped high with crates and barrels and pushed along by twenty polemen to a side, and fancy floating houses with lanterns of colored glass, velvet drapes, and brazen figureheads.†   (source)
  • Two of the ships that had been here yesterday were gone, Cat saw, but five new ones had docked; a small car-rack called the Brazen Monkey, a huge Ibbenese whaler that reeked of tar and blood and whale oil, two battered cogs from Pentos, and a lean green galley up from Old Volantis.†   (source)
  • His Brazen Beasts did the rest, herding the other Westerosi and the rest of the day's petitioners from the hall.†   (source)
  • When Selmy reached those floors, he found the doors to the interior of the pyramid chained shut, with a pair of Brazen Beasts posted as guards.†   (source)
  • It had been his notion to have the Brazen Beasts follow her betrothed and take note of all his actions.†   (source)
  • It took the Brazen Beasts pounding the butts of their spears against the floor before the hall quieted again.†   (source)
  • Five wore the cloaks and masks of Brazen Beasts, but Pretty Meris had not troubled to disguise herself.†   (source)
  • The Shavepate was clad in a pleated black skirt and a muscled breastplate, with a brazen helm shaped like a serpent's head beneath one arm.†   (source)
  • Brazen Beasts swung out amongst the pillars to form a line, then began a slow advance in lockstep, ushering the petitioners from the hall.†   (source)
  • As for the Brazen Beasts, half were freedmen and the rest shavepates, whose true loyalty might still be to Skahaz mo Kandaq.†   (source)
  • The Brazen Beasts did as they were bid.†   (source)
  • The two Brazen Beasts exchanged a look.†   (source)
  • At the base of the Great Pyramid, Ser Barristan awaited them beside an ornate open palanquin, surrounded by Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • Deeper inside the pyramid, another four Brazen Beasts had been set to guard the iron doors outside the pit where Viserion and Rhaegal were chained.†   (source)
  • Two score Brazen Beasts stood between the pillars, torchlight shining off the polished brass of their masks.†   (source)
  • Many had been stricken: freedmen, sellswords, Brazen Beasts, even Dothraki, though as yet none of the Unsullied had been touched.†   (source)
  • Mounted men all, Dothraki and Brazen Beasts and freedmen, they were united only by their distaste for this duty.†   (source)
  • A pair of Unsullied went down the steps before them, bearing torches; behind came two Brazen Beasts, one masked as a fish, the other as a hawk.†   (source)
  • It had taken the rest of the day and most of the night for the Brazen Beasts to gather up the corpses.†   (source)
  • When the Shavepate had commanded the Brazen Beasts, he had favored a serpent's-head mask, imperious and frightening.†   (source)
  • Archibald Yronwood had been cradling his prince's scorched and smoking body when the Brazen Beasts had found him, as his burned hands could testify.†   (source)
  • Even if her captain was mad enough to attempt it, the Brazen Beasts would cut him down before he got within a hundred yards of her.†   (source)
  • The Corpsekiller was garbed as a Brazen Beast, his seamed, scarred face hidden behind a cobra mask, but the familiar black arakh slung at his hip gave him away.†   (source)
  • The first thing Hizdahr had done upon being crowned was to remove him from command of the Brazen Beasts, replacing him with his own cousin, the plump and pasty Marghaz zo Loraq.†   (source)
  • He sounded not at all Ghiscari, he knew; but half the Brazen Beasts were freed slaves, with all manner of native tongues, so his accent went unremarked.†   (source)
  • When His Grace had tried to put them under the command of a cousin, as he had the Brazen Beasts, Grey Worm had informed the king that they were free men who took commands only from their mother.†   (source)
  • The Brazen Beasts had taken dozens of the Harpy's Sons, and those who had survived their capture had yielded names when questioned sharply ...too many names, it seemed to her.†   (source)
  • Six Brazen Beasts were with him.†   (source)
  • Then a shadow detached itself from inside an empty stall and became another Brazen Beast, clad in pleated black skirt, greaves, and muscled breastplate.†   (source)
  • Let my Brazen Beasts seize them.†   (source)
  • Four Brazen Beasts stood guard outside those doors, four more within It was those that the old knight encountered—big men, masked as boar, bear, vole, and manticore.†   (source)
  • One was mine, a Brazen Beast.†   (source)
  • In the Shavepate's place stood a fat man in a muscled breastplate and lion's mask, his heavy legs poking out beneath a skirt of leather straps: Marghaz zo Loraq, the king's cousin, new commander of the Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • Now they were Brazen Beasts.†   (source)
  • "A Brazen Beast.†   (source)
  • After Hizdahr had given command of the Brazen Beasts to his cousin Marghaz zo Loraq, Skahaz had been named Warden of the River, with charge of all the ferries, dredges, and irrigation ditches along the Skahazadhan for fifty leagues, but the Shavepate had refused that ancient and honorable office, as Hizdahr called it, preferring to retire to the modest pyramid of Kandaq.†   (source)
  • The band vanished into the far distance, its brazen diminishing harmony soft, heartbreaking on my hearing like a lullaby.†   (source)
  • 'The perishing is more likely, and will be a lot easier anyway,' he said grimly to himself, as he sheathed Sting and turned from the brazen doors.†   (source)
  • And there was the world of the mother's darlings, of smart students and rich merchants' sons; the world of impunity, of brazen, insolent vice; of rich m?†   (source)
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