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  • I did not "Brandish" a hacksaw - is it my fault the Americans put them in so many horror movies, I was just trying to do a good deed.....before my vandalism, honest!

    A Bad day and a distraction Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • Go and look at Brandish now, and if you feel like buying your favourite entertainment blog a robot head toilet roll holder while you're at it, then you just go ahead and do that too.

    SLACKERJACK: Social Networking Wars 2006

  • And don't be doubting the quality of Brandish, either – word has it that it's edited by Ollie Irish, one-time editor of everyone's favourite gadgetporn magazine, Stuff.

    SLACKERJACK: Social Networking Wars 2006

  • Brandish is the self-proclaimed site dedicated to The Coolest Stuff in the World for blokes, and that's a description we can't really find fault with.

    SLACKERJACK: Social Networking Wars 2006

  • Brandish comes kitted out with the latest must-have gadgets, fashion that won't make you look like a metrosexual arsehead, illegally fast cars, fine Cuban cigars, and a Japanese toilet roll holder that looks like a robot's head that we'd gladly commit any number of minor crimes to get hold of.

    SLACKERJACK: Social Networking Wars 2006

  • "Brandish it, wield it, " said Genserix to her, sternly.

    Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

  • Brandish to tithe the ringe-wood, found the woodman over anxious for him to begin counting at a certain spot, where the cutting commenced, but suspecting that the ringes had been cooked a little, the wily curate examined them and found every tenth, from the woodman's way of counting _fell upon a very thin ringe_!

    Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King Alfred Kingston

  • Brandish the flaming torches and so revive their brilliancy.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • 'Brandish again!' cried they -- the same seven whom he had fed.

    The Field of Clover Laurence Housman 1912

  • "Comets, importing change of time and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death."

    A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom 1896

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