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  • Castle is a collection of projects that includes database access layers (using NHibernate to power a ActiveRecord implementation), templating engines (of which NVelocity and Brail are but two examples), and a series of other services geared to rapid application development.

    Reflective Surface - Archives: 2007 December 2007

  • Castle is a collection of projects that includes database access layers (using NHibernate to power a ActiveRecord implementation), templating engines (of which NVelocity and Brail are but two examples), and a series of other services geared to rapid application development.

    Reflective Surface - Castle: MonoRail + ActiveRecord 2007

  • "Brail up the foresail, and double reef the mainsail."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • "Brail the damned thing up!" he bawled at last, with a red face.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • "Brail up the main-sail, boys," shouted the skipper cheerily, and in a second it was done; the helm was put up, the boat's head fell off, and away she went with a rush, broadside-on to the sea.

    The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886

  • The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.

    The Amazing Marriage — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868

  • The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.

    The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Jack was below, when he heard a far louder roar of the wind than before, and heard his uncle shout, "Brail up the main as far as you can, Tom -- the jib is about all we want now!"

    A Chapter of Adventures 1867

  • It was called "Le Brail," and had given its name to my great-great-grandmother's property, whence it had issued thirty miles away (and many hundred years ago); but the old Château du Brail, the manor of the Aubérys, had become a farm-house.

    Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

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