1 After a silence the shy fist, clenching on sixpence, pointed into the bramble brake.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 6 2 Then he put her in gear with a jerk, having jerked off his brake.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 13 3 But it was all right, and the brake was off.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H LawrenceGet Context In Chapter 13 4 Venn moved his elbow towards a hollow in which a dense brake of purple-stemmed brambles had grown to such vast dimensions as almost to form a dell.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 5 The roof and chimney of Venn's caravan showed behind the tracery and tangles of the brake.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 6 She vanished in a hollow for a few moments, and then her whole form unfolded itself from the brake.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 3: 5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues 7 In a neighbouring brake a finch was trying to sing; but the wind blew under his feathers till they stood on end, twisted round his little tail, and made him give up his song.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 3: 6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 8 Meg colored behind the brake, but asked no questions and looked across the river with the same expectant expression which Mr. Brooke had worn when he told the story of the knight.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER THIRTEEN 9 Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII 10 The wounded deer dragging its fainting limbs to some untrodden brake, there to gaze upon the arrow which had pierced it, and to die, was but a type of me.
Frankenstein By Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) ShelleyGet Context In Chapter 9 11 I tried to make her stop, but she couldn't so I pulled on the emergency brake.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 7 12 But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 3 13 Tom threw on both brakes impatiently and we slid to an abrupt dusty stop under Wilson's sign.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 7 14 He slowed down, but still without any intention of stopping until, as we came nearer, the hushed intent faces of the people at the garage door made him automatically put on the brakes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 7 15 being little underbrush, and few tangled brakes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 32