brig

• “The talking point that the military cannot keep the prisoners securely in such facilities as Fort Leavenworth or the Charleston brig is simply laughable.”

  Balkinization

• “Why, aye, ma'am,' answered Ewart, 'they call the brig so at Dunkirk, sure enough; but along shore here, they call her the JUMPING JENNY.”

  Redgauntlet

• “Joe Cross had incidentally said that he believed it was a brig, and that night as Rodd lay half asleep, half wakeful, in his cot, kept from finding the customary repose of a tired lad by the heat of the narrow cabin below, the word brig brought to mind the vessel that had so nearly run upon them in Havre-de-Grace, and in a drowsy stupid way he had pictured her tall tapering spars, the flapping of her stay-sail, and the rush of the storm.”

  The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise

• “‘Why, aye, ma’am,’ answered Ewart, ‘they call the brig so at Dunkirk, sure enough; but along shore here, they call her the JUMPING JENNY.’”

  Redgauntlet

• “You know,' he continued, 'that the brig is short about a dozen hands, and I want you to pick up a few likely lads here.”

  Willis the Pilot

• “He got hold of the Sanderses and their brig; they were brothers, and the brig was the Pride of Banya, and he it was bought the diving-dress — a second-hand one with a compressed air apparatus instead of pumping.”

  Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells

• “The brig was a small compartment, which always surprised Kara Thrace when she thought about it.”

  Battlestar Galactica

• ““Do you know that the brig is a mile and a quarter from the shore?” said Herbert.”

  The Mysterious Island

• “The brig was a good sailer, for she approached rapidly.”

  The Mysterious Island

• “The captain of the brig was a simple-minded man with a strongish will, and he at once declared that if his casks were not filled in three hours, he would destroy the whole place.”

  Eothen

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