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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See bromize.

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Examples

  • “If de misdress had some liddle blace vere the master could pe hidden,” said Kolb; “I bromise to take him dere so dot nopody shall know.”

    Eve and David 2007

  • “If de misdress had some liddle blace vere the master could pe hidden,” said Kolb; “I bromise to take him dere so dot nopody shall know.”

    Eve and David 2007

  • I will haf your bromise, your sacred wort of honour, before I will gollaborate again, that you will no more blay with me these farces.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • "Do you bromise me dot Karl Trimbach gets dot seat?" boomed Mr. Weisner.

    All-Wool Morrison Holman Day 1900

  • De oder men dey vas sore, but dey vanted de old man to bromise to gif dem big money, und ve go for noding.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • But now, mine friendts, I vill say no more, vor I am dry; so here's to all our good healths, and let us bromise one another not to haf no more angry vorts. '

    Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

  • 'You haf kebt your bromise to the letter, and you will fint that Albert von Schiller has kept his.

    Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Rolf Boldrewood 1870

  • "If de misdress had some liddle blace vere the master could pe hidden," said Kolb; "I bromise to take him dere so dot nopody shall know."

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • "If de misdress had some liddle blace vere the master could pe hidden," said Kolb; "I bromise to take him dere so dot nopody shall know."

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • ‘You haf kebt your bromise to the letter, and you will fint that Albert von Schiller has kept his.

    Robbery Under Arms 2004

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