His clothes [St. Augustine’s] were neither brave, nor base, but comely.—Fuller, Holy State, b. iv. c. 10.
If he [the good yeoman] chance to appear in clothes above his rank, it is to grace some great man with his service, and then he blusheth at his own bravery.—Id. ib. b. ii. c. 18.
Traffic encreaseth wonderfully here, with all kind of bravery and building.—Howell, Letters, i. 6, 36.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, not omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.—Sir T. Browne, Hydriotaphia.
There is a great festival now drawing on, a festival designed chiefly for the acts of a joyful piety, but generally made only an occasion of bravery.—South, Sermons, vol. ii. p. 285.
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‘To bribe’ was to rob, a ‘bribour’ a robber, and ‘bribery’ robbery, once. For an ingenious history of the steps by which the words left their former meaning, and acquired their present, see Marsh, Lectures on the English Language, 1st Series, p. 249.
They that delight in superfluity of gorgeous apparel and dainty fare, commonly do deceive the needy, bribe, and pill from them.—Cranmer, Instruction of Prayer.
Woe be to you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the utter side of the cup and of the platter; but within they are full of bribery [ἁρπαγῆς, and in the E. V. ‘extortion’] and excess.—Matt. xxiii. 25. Geneva Version.
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