BREATH.-Made a groan of her last breath, and now she sings in heaven A contagious breath. — Very sweet and contagious, i' faith What fine chisel Could ever yet cut breath? This same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath For thy word Is but the vain breath of a common man. The latest breath that gave the sound of words Was deep-sworn faith Holding the eternal spirit, against her will, In the vile prison of afflicted breath King John, ii. 1. ii. 1. iii. 1. I. iii. 4. The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out, And strewed repentant ashes on his head iii. 4. iv. 1. iv. 3. It was my breath that blew this tempest up Upon your stubborn usage Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars And on our actions set the name of right With holy breath Which in our country's cradle Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep V. I. V. 2. V. 2. Richard II. i. 3. i. 3. i. 3. i. 3. i. 3. ii. 1. ii. 1. 111. I. 111. 2. iii. 2. iii. 2. iv. 1. Not sick, although I have to do with death, But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath Such is the breath of kings But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath, Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; For all in vain comes counsel "T is breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose. And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment Breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord Where fearing dying pays death servile breath. Allowing him a breath, a little scene, To monarchize, be feared and kill with looks With mine own breath release all duty's rites Would the quarrel lay upon our heads, And that no man might draw short breath to-day 1 Hen. IV. v. 2. I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he He sure means brevity in breath, short-winded A night is but small breath and little pause To answer matters of this consequence An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to . Gives he not till judgement guide his bounty, Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath All this uttered With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bowed I love the maid I married; never man Sighed truer breath iv. 5. ii. 6. iii. 1. iii. 3. V. 3. V. 3. v. 3. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives . BREATH.- Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it gone! Timon of Athens, ii. 2. When the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made ii. 2. And what seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind Macbeth, i. 3. Almost dead for breath, had scarcely more Than would make up his message The heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. i. 5. i. 6. ii. 1. Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom iv. 1. If words be made of breath, And breath of life, I have no life to breathe Words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich. Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye Curses not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny V. 3. Hamlet, i. 2. iii. 1. iii. 2. ill. 4. V. 2. The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath; And in the cup an union shall he throw And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story Then 't is like the breath of an unfeed lawyer; you gave me nothing for 't Othello, ii. 1. iii. 3. V. 2. Ant. and Cleo. iii. 10. iv. 1. Thou 'rt full of love and honesty, And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath. In their thick breaths, Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded V. 2. Cymbeline, iii. 4. iv. 2. V. 4. Whose breath rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world BREATHE. I have seen a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness No man so potent breathes upon the ground But I will beard him ii. I. All's Well, ii. 1. ii. 3. Richard II. ii. 1. iv. 1. 1 Henry IV. i. 1. iv. 1. Here could I breathe my soul into the air, As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe 2 Henry VI. iii. 2. As runners with a race, I lay me down a little while to breathe His better doth not breathe upon the earth. He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe I have no life to breathe What thou hast said to me. Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes I have not breathed almost since I did see it A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea, From morn till night The plainest harmless creature That breathed upon this earth a Christian This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin, there shall I end Julius Cæsar, v. 3. BREATHER. -No particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather Meas. for Meas. iv. 4. I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults As You Like It, iii. 2. She shows a body rather than a life, A statue than a breather BREATHING. You shake the head at so long a breathing No sighs but of my breathing; no tears but of my shedding . Ant. and Cleo. iii. 3. Much Ado, ii. 1. Mer. of Venice, iii. 1. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. V. I. BREATHING. A nursery to our gentry, who are sick For breathing and exploit I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose. Like the tyrannous breathing of the north, Shakes all our buds from growing. 'T is her breathing that Perfumes the chamber thus . BRED. He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? Happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn Yet am I inland bred, and know some nurture. A gentleman well bred and of good name I have bred her at my dearest cost In qualities of the best. One bred of alms and fostered with cold dishes, With scraps. BREECHES. - An old jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned I must pocket up these wrongs, Because 2 Henry IV. i. 1. Timon of Athens, i. 1. Cymbeline, ii. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 2. Your breeches best may carry them. King John, iii. 1. Though in this place most master wear no breeches. She speaks, and 't is Such sense, that my sense breeds with it When did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? . 2 Henry VI. i. 3. Henry VIII. i. 3. Othello, ii. 3. Tam. of the Shrew, iii. 1. . Love's L. Lost, v. 2. I am questioned by my fears, of what may chance Or breed upon our absence. And breeds no bate with telling of discreet stories It was in a place where I could not breed no contention with him Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate . If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall, That I may speak O noble strain! O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness! BREED-BATE. -I warrant you, no tell-tale nor no breed-bate Breeder. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good See where comes the breeder of my sorrow! ii. 1. 2 Henry IV. ii. 4. Henry V. v. 1. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. Julius Cæsar, i. 2. V. 3. Macbeth, i. 6. iv. 3. V. I. Hamlet, ii. 2. iii. 2. King Lear, i. 2. i. 3. Cymbeline, iv. 2. Merry Wives, i. 4. Two Gen. of Verona, iii. 1. 3 Henry VI. iii. 3. Hamlet, iii. 1. Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?. Breeding. May complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred As You Like It, iii. 2. I shall now put you to the height of your breeding The young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding So leaves me to consider what is breeding That changeth thus his manners. All's Well, ii. 2. Twelfth Night, iii. 4. Winter's Tale, i. 2. iv. 4. V. 2. BREEDING. It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but to play at loggats with 'em? Such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. Much is breeding, Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life. BREVITY. - I will imitate the honourable Romans in brevity He sure means brevity in breath, short-winded Brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes BREWERS. - When brewers mar their malt with water BREWING. Another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest, For I did dream of money-bags BRIAREUS. He is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use BRIBES - Shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? BRICK. He hath a garden circummured with bricks And the bricks are alive at this day to testify it BRICKLAYER. - He was an honest man, and a good bricklayer The devil tempts thee here In likeness of a new untrimmed bride BRIDLE. He is the bridle of your will. There's none but asses will be bridled so Com. of Errors, ii. 1. This is it that makes me bridle passion And bear with mildness BRIEF. But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority I have possessed him my most stay Can be but brief Short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night. In brief, sir, study what you most affect 'T is strange, 't is very strange, that is the brief and the tedious of it Whose ceremony Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief She told me, In a sweet verbal brief Very brief, and to exceeding good sense-less The hand of time Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume 3 Henry VI. iv. 4. Meas. for Meas. ii. 2. iv. I. Mid. N. Dream, i. 1. V. L. V. I.. As You Like It, iii. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. All's Well, ii. 3. I must be brief, lest resolution drop Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears Are you so brief? — O, sir, it is better to be brief than tedious We must be brief when traitors brave the field Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. But soft! methinks I scent the morning air: Brief let me be ii. 3. V. 3. Twelfth Night, iii. 4. King John, ii. 1. iv. 1. .1 Henry IV. iv. 4. Richard III. i. 4. iv. 3. Macbeth, v. 5. Hamlet, i. 5. ii. 2. iii. 2. BRIEFNESS.-I hope the briefness of your answer made The speediness of your return Cymbeline, ii. 4. iii. 2. iii. 2. As O, how full of briers is this working-day world! They are but burrs, cousin. As You Like It, i. 3. All's Well, i. 1. Henry VIII. iii. 2. All's Well, iv. 4. You Like It, i. 3. BRIGHT.-Sleek o'er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night Macbeth, iii. 2. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell BRIGHTEST. -Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud. BRIM. Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim He will fill thy wishes to the brim With principalities iv. 3. . 2 Henry VI. ii. 4. Ant, and Cleo. iii. 13. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 5. Titus Andron. iii. 1. BRINE. - Get from her tears. 'T is the best brine a maiden can season her praise in All's Well, i. 1. . Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word . BRINGER. The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office -- Tempest, iv. 1. As You Like It, i. 4. Hamlet, iii. 4. 2 Henry IV. i. 1. Mid. N. Dream, v. I. Meas. for Meas. iii. 2. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. Twelfth Night, ii. 4. 1 Henry IV. i. 3. Romeo and Juliet, i. 5. Twelfth Night, i. 5. Cymbeline, iii. 1. If it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think There's livers out of Britain BRITISH. Fie, foh, and fum, I smell the blood of a British man. BRITON. So merry and so gamesome: he is called The Briton reveller You shall give me leave To play the broker in mine own behalf. BROOCH. I know him well; He is the brooch indeed And gem of all the nation There's something in his soul, O'er which his melancholy sits on brood Unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns In dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook Empties itself, as doth an inland brook, Into the main of waters iii. 4. iii. 4. iii. 4. King Lear, iii. 4. Cymbeline, i. 6. All's Well, iv. 5. Ant. and Cleo. ii. 7. Henry VIII. iv. 1. Troi. and Cress. i. 3. King Lear, v. I. King John, ii. 1. 2 Henry VI. i. 2. 3 Henry VI. iv. 1. Hamlet, i. 3. iv. 7. 2 Henry IV. iii. 1. 3 Henry VI. ii. 2. Hamlet, iii. 1. Merry Wives, iii. 5. Two Gen. of Verona, v. 4. Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones I can no longer brook thy vanities. I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles This weighty business will not brook delay Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep Be not too rough in terms; For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language In that you brook it ill, it makes him worse Will the cold brook, Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste? There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream Hamlet, iv. 7. Brooked. The nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle Tam. of the Shrew, i. 1. |