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" "Yes; and shout on penny steamers, and brandish pint bottles of stout, and sing along the streets, in simple abandonment to Arcadian joy; and trample on flowers; and break pretty things for wantonness; and exercise a rude but effective wit, known among the ancients as Fescennine, upon passing ladies; and get drunk o' nights; and walk the streets with a pipe in your mouth.
1) we find the well-known passage:- “Comets importing change of times and states Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry’s death.
I have seen this whole body of horse, upon a word of command, draw their swords at once, and brandish them in the air.
"'Another of these magicians, by means of a fluid that nobody ever yet saw, could make the corpses of his friends brandish their arms, kick out their legs, fight, or even get up and dance at his will.
At editorial meetings he would brandish a knife.
In real hearings, adversaries brandish impressive-sounding studies and tell sob stories, rather than making buffoonish personal attacks.
Troops brandish Galil assault rifles, vigilantes use rifles, pistols, machetes to kill 45 suspected looters.
Every night for two weeks, temple priests brandish long poles each with a flaming cedar ball at the end.
Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
The fencing has gone on for some time; suddenly one of the combatants, feeling himself wounded and understanding that the matter is no joke but concerns his life, throws down his rapier, and seizing the first cudgel that comes to hand begins to brandish it.
Then let us imagine that the combatant who so sensibly employed the best and simplest means to attain his end was at the same time influenced by traditions of chivalry and, desiring to conceal the facts of the case, insisted that he had gained his victory with the rapier according to all the rules of art.
One can imagine what confusion and obscurity would result from such an account of the duel.
The most bare-faced duelist might almost brandish his weapon.
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