All 5 Uses of
brandish
in
Mrs. Dalloway
- And Clarissa had leant forward, taken his hand, drawn him to her, kissed him,—actually had felt his face on hers before she could down the brandishing of silver flashing—plumes like pampas grass in a tropic gale in her breast, which, subsiding, left her holding his hand, patting his knee and, feeling as she sat back extraordinarily at her ease with him and light-hearted, all in a clap it came over her, If I had married him, this gaiety would have been mine all day!†
- The trees waved, brandished.†
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- At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall—there, there, there—her determination to show, by brandishing her plumes, shaking her tresses, flinging her mantle this way and that, beautifully, always beautifully, and standing close up to breathe through her hollowed hands Shakespeare's words, her meaning.†
- Diagrams, designs, little men and women brandishing sticks for arms, with wings—were they?†
- Better anything, better brandish one's torch and hurl it to earth than taper and dwindle away like some Ellie Henderson!†
Definition:
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(brandish) the act of waving something or exhibiting it aggressively