He replied that he knew nothing of either societies or bravoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martyred Armenia] Reference

Joe-Jim's bravoes checked their flight and they looked doubtfully at their master.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference

He went there, and some of the police asked him about the Armenian Society and its bravoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martyred Armenia] Reference

The bravoes (per-haps apprehending there were more than two) seemed as glad to get off with their rescued compa-nion as I was to retire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Servants stood for hire; bravoes lurked behind the gray stone columns in dark corners, ready to take the price of blood from any hand that offered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

Great coolness, vast powers, are continually displayed; yet they are well displayed, after the fashion of gentlemen, not of bravoes or villains or highwaymen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

It was often attributed at the time to Dryden, who accordingly suffered a thrashing at the hands of Rochester's bravoes for the reflections it contained upon the earl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

The best way of becoming master of these acquisitions is, to peruse with attention the features of bravoes and brigands on the one hand, and those of opera-dancers on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference

Pall-Mall, by the hired bravoes of count Coningsmark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference

Bassi hires two bravoes, Barbarino and Malvolio, to follow them and kill Stradella.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Your dismissal of the bravoes, by means of the count's ring, was a masterly stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

"The baffled tyrant returned to Whitehall with his company of bravoes," while the city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges] Reference

The bravoes have been so moved by Stradella's singing that they hesitate in their purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Margaretha had retired to her own chamber and the bravoes were concealed with me in the garden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference

Was not this Venice, and is not Venice forever associated with bravoes and unexpected dagger-thrusts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venetian Life] Reference

He and a following of similar bravoes were addicted to the pastime of retrieving towns from stagnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference

He turned, and under a long tent, and round a board covered with wine and viands, sate some thirty or forty bravoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

We therefore offer you the job of sitting in the outer room and intercepting these bravoes before they can reach us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince and Betty] Reference

Their English blood was up in a moment two masked figures and hearing them egging on their bravoes with 'Hola, there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Pearls] Reference

Stradella, Leonora, and the two bravoes are together in the same apartment, singing the praises of their native Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

Westminster bravoes eyed the Gypsy askance; but the comparison, if they made any, seemed by no means favourable to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pocket George Borrow] Reference

Well, after a bit, I was amazed, and pained, too, to hear Comrade Bickersdyke urging certain bravoes in the audience to turn me out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psmith in the City] Reference

Just as I arrived at that quarter he was coming out of the shop, and his bravoes, having made an opening, formed a circle round him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obiter Dicta] Reference

Whereupon more egg-nogg, bravoes, handshaking, slappings of the shoulder, and a torchlight serenade up to midnight before Baobab Villa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tartarin of Tarascon] Reference

Gothic gables, and high bell-towers, and ducal palaces, and feudal fortresses of the city in whose street Crichton fell to the hired steel of bravoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference

Meantime, he has accused me to some of the primates, the rulers for the time, as if I were a cut-throat, and an abettor of bravoes and assassinates, and coupe-jarrets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference

Queen Eleanor descended from her throne and amid clappings and bravoes gave Richard the stalk of lilies which had served her for sceptre and was now his palm of victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)] Reference

Were I in Italy, disburse but a few sequins and battling legions would move at my bidding: but here we have neither cicisbeos, carnivals, confessors, bravoes nor sanctuaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference