bracer

Example Sentences

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It was hard to take this as anything more than a tough old soldier's morale-stiffening bracer for worse ordeals yet to come.

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Knowing he is back there praying while they are sweating through a mission is a first-class bracer.

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The news that Britain�for 200 years "ruler of the waves"�was now a third-rate naval power sent M.P.s racing to the downstairs bar for a bracer.

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.

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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