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  • DT Ron Brace is a two-gap devourer of blockers and insurance against Vince Wifork leaving in free agency.

    The rich get richer? NFL draft grades favor the NFC East 2009

  • For example, my name Brace would be tapped: B = 1-2; R = 4-2; A = 1-1; C = 1-3; E = 1-5.

    Messages From John Ernest C. Brace 2008

  • Through the years, Ms. Ireland saw Mr. Shepherd perform in Brace Up!,

    Meeting Her Match Lizzie Simon 2010

  • The Brace is a classic example, cheap and cheerful, with a fun decoration of famous footballers' shirts hanging from the ceiling, and a menu that ranges from Pizza Positano, with cherry tomatoes and mozzarella, to grilled squid and prawns, sea bass and tuna.

    10 best budget eats in Bologna 2011

  • Mr. Brace is here and I am going to ask him to propose a vote of thanks to His Excellency.

    The Art of Living 1935

  • -- "Pox on you," says he, "for a bantering dog! how can a single girdle do me good, when a Brace was my destruction?"'

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • Senor Diego Hurlstone and the invincible Dona Leonor -- the courage and discretion to resist the tyranny and injustice of their oppressors, caused them to mutiny and abandon the vessel rather than become accomplices, in the company of certain neutral and non-combatant traders and artisans, severally known as Brace, Banks, Winslow, and Crosby; and certain aristocrats, known as Senoras Brimmer and Chubb.

    The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte 1869

  • About 40 years ago a guy called Brace (Ref 1 - sorry I can't find these on the internet) found that the cracks in a rock are related to the size of the grains of the material that make up the rock.

    The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future Heading Out 2010

  • Sullenberger, who received a two-minute standing ovation, will be profiled on TLC in a documentary called Brace for Impact.

    Media Buyer Planner 2009

  • Ramsey and 25 other passengers and first responders have shared their stories in a book called Brace for Impact.

    WKYT - Home - Headlines 2009

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