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I have a 10 gauge I call "Big Bruser", because when I was young it left a bruse on my shoulder.
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I have a 10 gauge I call "Big Bruser", because when I was young it left a bruse on my shoulder.
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God help you if yor child ever went to school with a bruse from a fall at home because the Cops would be called and the CAS would take away the child on Alleged abuse .
The Tamil Tiger Insurgency In Canada « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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There is another people dwelling in that Ethiope that lyeth aboue Egipte, called Ryzophagi, whiche bestowe muche time in digging vp of the rootes of Riedes growing niere aboute them, and in wasshing and clensing of the same, whiche afterward they bruse betwixt stones till thei become clammie, and so makes wiete cakes of them, muche facioned like a brick a hande broade.
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PunkerChick262: And I hate how she acts like Im a little girl, trying to shelter me from the world, "mom, where did you get that giant bruse?"
distortedlie Diary Entry distortedlie 2004
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It is refreshing to know that Solomon's Seal was so named by reason of the marks on its root; and that this root, according to the old herbalists, "stamped while it is fresh and greene, and applied, taketh away in one night, or two at the most, any bruse, black or blew spots gotten by falls, or woman's wilfulness in stumbling upon their hasty husband's fists, or such like."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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Sometime also beeing whole soddeu, they bruse or pound them in a morter, & thereof make loaues or lumps of dowishe bread, which they vse to eat for varietie.
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I wish Burns had described a _bruse_; all sorts of steeds, wild, unkempt lads as well as colts, old broken-down thorough-breds that did wonders when _soopled_, huge, grave cart horses devouring the road with their shaggy hoofs, wilful ponies, etc.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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Robert was riding the _bruse_, and flying away from the crowd, Gray first, and the rest nowhere, and might be seen turning the corner of the farm-house with the victorious bottle in his uplifted hand, the motley pack panting vainly up the hill.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
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Sometime also beeing whole soddeu, they bruse or pound them in a morter, & thereof make loaues or lumps of dowishe bread, which they vse to eat for varietie.
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia Thomas Hariot 1590
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