braverie

Never considering, that whosoever loadeth the backe of an Asse, or puts upon him the richest braverie; he becommeth not thereby a jot the wiser, or meriteth any more honor then an Asse should have.

The Decameron 2004

Hee well founde hee received more braverie of minde by the paterne of Achilles, then by hearing the definition of fortitude.

Defence of Poesie 1992

The braves in a warrior tribe and the glamour of braverie in knight-errantry, the display of pomp by modern armies on parade, were not objects to disturb the sense of proportion in the mind of the Friar Preacher.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

For the manner of setting out, it was as usuall as in other ships, but that the _Turkes_ delighted in the ostentous braverie of their Streamers, Banners, and Top-sayles; the ship being a handsome ship, and well built for any purpose.

Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

Such also used to be their poverty, that if a farmer went to the alehouse, 'a thing greatly used in those days, 'and there,' in a braverie to show what store he had, did caste downe his purse and therein a noble or 6 shillings in silver unto them, it was very likely that all the rest could not lay downe so much against it. '

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

There were women, too, mingled in the crowd -- seated and standing in every attitude -- gay and beautiful women, decked out in the finery of fashion, but with a certain _braverie_ of manner that betokened their unfortunate character.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

She still carried her rifle; and was equipped just as I had seen her in the morning; but now, sharing the spirit of her steed -- and further animated by the exciting incidents, still in the act of occurrence -- her countenance exhibited a style of beauty, not the less charming from the wildness and _braverie_ that characterised it.

The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

I should feel a difficulty in describing this, which consisted in a certain _braverie_ that bespoke courage and self-possession.

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

This sense of having been hardly treated by Fortune at the outset, marred much of his present enjoyment, accompanied as it was by a misgiving that, do what he might, that early inferiority would cling to him, like some rag of a garment that he must wear over all his 'braverie,' proclaiming as it did to the world, 'This is from what I sprung originally.'

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

Mother Hubberds Tale, 858: "Which oft maintain'd his masters braverie"

The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801