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  • I was hugely disappointed with Brake's timid comments, which hardly reflected the level of outrage expressed by us, the victims of "kettling" on the day and in later reports.

    Deborah Hobson: Ugly Face of British Policing Has Shocked Me 2009

  • Am I the only one who thinks that, compared to much of the drivel put out by the Lib Dem PP on a daily basis, Tom Brake's Santa press release was just a bit of harmless silliness?

    Around the Lib Dem blogs 2005

  • One day after Charley came roaring ashore, I met Dave Brake, who owned Brake's Dairy King here in Punta Gorda.

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2004 2004

  • The child rolled the whites of his eyes towards me and announced briefly, "Brake's broke."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 19, 1919 Various

  • The history of the relation between the mother country and her dependency during Brake's life, may be characterised as a commercial and legislative struggle between the imperial government and the Anglo-Irish interest, in which each side for its own convenience, as the turn served, drew support from the Catholic majority.

    Burke Morley, John 1907

  • You will notice that in what Brake's counsel said on his behalf there are one or two curious and mysterious hints as to what might have been said if it had been of any use or advantage to say it.

    The Paradise Mystery 1899

  • And in that long bar of theirs, I saw a man whom I knew -- a man whom I knew, for a fact, to have been a fellow convict of Brake's.

    The Paradise Mystery 1899

  • What could be the meaning of this extraordinary silence on Brake's part?

    The Paradise Mystery 1899

  • "To ask you -- between ourselves -- if you can tell us anything about Brake's earlier days -- antecedents -- that'll help us," replied Mitchington.

    The Paradise Mystery 1899

  • "What became of Brake's wife and children when he went to prison?"

    The Paradise Mystery 1899

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