brace

Brace your belt, Watkins, man, and swing your shoulders as a free companion should.

One felt tempted to brace oneself for the rush that was to come.

Bill let go the brace, turned as white as a sheet, and exclaimed, "I'm gone!"

Bring some of that cake you baked to-day, honey—and do brace up!

I'll show you whether there's a second brace o' keys or not.

Here they found the rest of the band, some of whom had come in with a brace of fat does.

A brace of kegs and a slow match would do it any dark night.

He made very light of a brace of partridges and a bottle of sparkling Moselle.

"Brace up, there," ordered Captain Smith, when this fact was announced.

Everybody praised Brace Dunlap for being so good to that stranger.