bracer
Example Sentences
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The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably.
From Time Magazine Archive
But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knowing he is back there praying while they are sweating through a mission is a first-class bracer.
From Time Magazine Archive
With these as a bracer for the day, Frightful and I would stamp out into the snow and reel down the mountain.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
