Lexicographical Neighbors of Branking
Literary usage of Branking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity (1860)
"Unto my said sonne all my term of yeares in 4 beastes gaites in branking Moore,
1 horse gaite in the ould stint, with 2 beastes gaites in the ould stint. ..."
2. Englisch-deutsches Supplement-lexikon: Als Ergänzung zu allen bis jetzt by A. Hoppe (1871)
"361: Lieutenant Hornby... came branking into the yard with two hundred pounds'
worth of trappings on ... 320: they came branking into a pot-house. Brant, a. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"They hadna ridden a mile, a mile, A mile but barely ten, When Donald came branking
down the brae Wi' twenty thousand men. Their tartans they were waving ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... ta'en the field himsel', Macleod comes branking o'er the fell— Carle, now the
King's come !" But I must transcribe the newspaper record in its details, ..."
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