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Tho I had a crankie boss wunce, n on hiz crankiest daze I would go to bakery on my braye, n bring him back pastry.
Ur throwpillowz r angries - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I could trace you the _fausse braye_ and the main walls, and put my finger on the angle where our guns pierced the greater breach, and carry it across to the tower where, by the lesser breach, our own storming-party of the Light Division climbed into the town.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The _fausse braye_ itself was dark, and the darker for a blaze of light behind it.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The attack of the Third Division on our right had begun, and the noise of it was taken up by the 95th riflemen, spread wide in three companies to scour the _fausse braye_ between the two breaches, and keep the defenders busy along it.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The sea-wall, for almost half its length, formed but a _fausse braye_ for the hornwork towering formidably behind it.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Some stray bullets splashed among us as we toppled down the ditch and mounted the scarp -- shots fired from Heaven knows where, but probably from some French retreating along the top of the _fausse braye_.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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I had no thought of death in all this roar -- the crowd seemed to close around and shut that out -- until we came to the edge of the counterscarp facing the _fausse braye_: and by that time the worst of the danger had passed.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The pressure eased, and an explosion threw a dozen of us to earth between the _fausse braye_ and the slope of rubble by which the stormers had climbed.
The Adventures of Harry Revel Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The light division was to make for the small breach and, upon entering the inclosure known as the fausse braye, a portion were to turn and enter the town by the Salamanca gate; while the others were to penetrate by the breach.
Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War Walter Paget 1867
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The 5th, 77th, and 94th Regiments rushed from the convent of Santa Cruz, leapt down into the fausse braye, and made their way to the foot of the great breach; which they reached at the same moment as the rest of the third division, who had run down from the Small Teson.
Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War Walter Paget 1867
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