bracer

Example Sentences

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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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Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably.

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Wodehouse assigned a hangover cure to his most famous fictional creation, Jeeves, the estimable butler famous for his bracer of Worcestershire sauce, raw egg, and pepper.

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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.

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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