Sentence examples similar to brace of figures from inspiring English sources
Squeezing the drama out of a truly dramatic era, it manages to trivialize not only its central character but also a brace of other iconic figures, reducing their times to a muddled stew of off-kilter images.
Brace yourself now for the usual Fybishian litany of figures.
All participants were screened for normal color vision using the familiar plates of figures composed of dots of different colors (Dvorine pseudo-isochromatic plates, Harcourt, Brace & World).
The character Gibson created was a mysterious figure who dressed in a flowing cloak and a slouch hat, battling criminals with a brace of blazing.45 automatic pistols.
Dixon took a brace of 25-pounders.
Berahino hits second brace of season.
A two-panel piece by Carlos Garaicoa offers a photograph of a decrepit Havana building propped up with wooden braces and a drawing of the building in which the braces are replaced by figures of giant classical atlantes, implying that a falling-down city is actually supported by benign but invisible supernatural beings.
Stocks fell on Monday as investors braced for a week of unemployment figures and economic data unlikely to stoke confidence in the prospects for growth.
Braces of any kind you need.
The Daily Mail says that the planned crackdown comes as ministers are "braced" for another disappointing set of immigration figures.
