Brench

Brench that his main success in life would have consisted in his never having committed himself about the work, as it was called, of his friend Morgan Mallow.

Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1892

Looking about therefore at such short notice, the school agent was led to hire a master, widely noted as a disciplinarian, named Nathaniel Brench, who for years had borne the nickname of "Czar" Brench, owing to his autocratic and cruel methods of school government.

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

The school agent and certain of the parents in the district who believed in the importance of rigid discipline wished to have Czar Brench teach there another winter; but for some reason he declined to return.

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

Czar Brench had more picturesque punishments for the six or seven

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887