Chapter Britannia Redivivus to Brothers of B by Brewer's Readers Handbook

of his visits, becomes jealous, till at the end the mystery is cleared up, and a double marriage is the result.—Mrs. Centlivre: The Wonder (1714).

Broad Grins, a series of farcical tales in verse by G. Colman the younger (1797).

Broadside (A). To constitute a broadside, the matter should be printed on the entire sheet, on one side of the paper only, not in columns, but in one measure. It matters not which way of the paper the printing is displayed, or what the size of type, provided the whole is presented to the eye in one view. Although the entire matter of a broadside must be contained on one side of a sheet of paper, an endorsement may be allowed.

Brobdingnag, a country of enormous giants, to whom Gulliver was a tiny dwarf. They were as tall “as an ordinary church steeple,” and all their surroundings were in proportion.

Yon high church steeple, yon gawky stag,
Your husband must come from Brobdingnag.
   —Kane O’Hara: Midas (1764).

Brock (Adam), in Charles XII., an historical drama by Planché (1828).

Broken Feather. A broken feather in his wing, a scandal connected with one’s name, a blot on one’s ’scutcheon.

If an angel were to walk about, Mrs. Sam Hurst would never rest till she had found out where he came from.

And perhaps whether he had a broken feather in his wing.—Mrs. Oliphant: Phœbe, jun., ii. 6.

Broken-Girth-Flow (Laird of), one of the Jacobite conspirators in The Black Dwarf, a novel by sir W. Scott (time, Anne).

Broken Heart (The), a tragedy by John Ford (1633). (See Calantha.)

Broker of the Empire (The). Darius, son of Hystapspês, was so called by the Persians from his great care of the financial condition of his empire.

Bromia, wife of Sosia (slave of Amphitryon ), in the service of Alcmena. A nagging termagant, who keeps her husband in petticoat subjection. She is not one of the characters in Molière’s comedy of Amphitryon.—Dryden: Amphitryon (1690).

Bromtons Chronicle (time, Edward III.), that is, “The Chronicle of John Bromton,” printed among the Decem Scriptores, under the titles of “Chronicon Johannis Bromton,” and “Johanensis Historia a Johanne Bromton,” abbot of Jerevaux, in Yorkshire. It commences with the conversion of the Saxons by St. Augustin, and closes with the death of Richard I. in 1199. Selden has proved that the chronicle was not written by Bromton, but was merely brought to the abbey while he was abbot.

Bronteé. (See Bell.)

Brontes, one of the Cyclops, hence a blacksmith generally. Called Bronteus by Spenser, Faërie Queene, iv. 5 (1596).

Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand,
The ponderous hammer falls from Brontês’ hand.
   —Jersalem Delivered, xx. (Hool’s translation).

Bronze. The Age of Bronze. A poem in heroice verse on Napoleon, his victories, his fall, and the effects produced by liberating the spirit of Liberty. Clause iii. contains some excellent lines—