Lexicographical Neighbors of Brittled
Literary usage of Brittled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Camps in the Rockies: Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier, and Sport by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1882)
"Going still closer, till I was about ten yards off, I perceived that the game
had been brittled, and that the paunch and intestines were lying close to it, ..."
2. English Literature: From the Norman Conquest to Chaucer by William Henry Schofield (1906)
"Craddock had a little knife of iron and of steel; He brittled (carved) the boar's
head wondrous well, That every knight in the king's court had a morsel. ..."
3. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by Walter Scott (1827)
"Another opponent of our author calls him " A brittled Baptist bred, and then thy
strain Immaculate vat free from sinful «ain. ..."
4. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400 by John Edwin Wells (1916)
"The poet slew the deer, brittled it, and concealed the parts that the forester
might not be aware. Then, as he watched his spoils, he fell asleep and had a ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Every muscle of her body was strung so taut, it seemed as if the brittled flesh
might break at a touch. " Moving about will do me good. ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"... if not more than, a brittled roebuck. Seen from a distance when he is circling
in the air, the wings spread to the full but perfectly motionless, ..."
7. Putnam's Magazine (1910)
"Every muscle of her body was strung so taut, it seemed as if the brittled flesh
might break at a touch. " Moving about will do me good. ..."
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