All 4 Uses of
brandish
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Faunman he met in Clamart woods, brandishing a winebottle.†
Chpt 9 *brandishing = waving something or exhibiting it aggressively
- GARRETT DEASY: (Bolt upright, his nailscraped face plastered with postagestamps, brandishes his hockeystick, his blue eyes flashing in the prism of the chandelier as his mount lopes by at schooling gallop) Per vias rectas!†
Chpt 15brandishes = waves something or exhibits it aggressively
- A pack of bloodhounds, led by Hornblower of Trinity brandishing a dogwhip in tallyho cap and an old pair of grey trousers, follow from fir, picking up the scent, nearer, baying, panting, at fault, breaking away, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, leaping at his tail.†
Chpt 15brandishing = waving something or exhibiting it aggressively
- Yet, though such criminal propensities had never been an inmate of his bosom in any shape or form, he certainly did feel and no denying it (while inwardly remaining what he was) a certain kind of admiration for a man who had actually brandished a knife, cold steel, with the courage of his political convictions (though, personally, he would never be a party to any such thing), off the same bat as those love vendettas of the south, have her or swing for her, when the husband frequently, after some words passed between the two concerning her relations with the other lucky mortal (he havin†
Chpt 16brandished = waved something or exhibited it aggressively
Definition:
the act of waving something or exhibiting it aggressively