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  • The Brocas was a meadow sacred to badger-baiting and cat-hunts.

    Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

  • The Brocas was a meadow sacred to badger-baiting and cat-hunts.

    Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake William Tuckwell 1874

  • Scouts kept the Schohirans posted on the movements of Brocas, and Hakon, who had been in their camp that day, said Brocas showed no signs of moving against us, which made me believe that he was waiting for Valerian to lead his Picts against the border.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • I said naught, but was surprized, for Brocas was lord of Conawaga, and not Schohira, whose patroon was Lord Thespius of Kormon.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "Gone over the border and joined Brocas," he answered.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "In Conawaga the land-owners and Brocas are for Namedides, and we have heard pitiful tales of their treatment of the common people who favor Conan."

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • If it had entered his head to stir them up against our borders we might be hard put to it to defend ourselves against them on one side and Brocas on the other.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Thespius, I knew, was away in Aquilonia fighting in the civil war raging there, and I wondered that Brocas was not so employed.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • "Brocas commanded us to swear loyalty to Namedides " the dog.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • If it had entered his head to stir them up against our borders The Conquering Sword of Conan we might be hard put to it to defend ourselves against them on one side and Brocas on the other.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

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