Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The zigzagging cry of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the head of the serpent to its tail, the long snail-slow serpent of marching men. Men weighed down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war. The cry jars and splits against the brazen, burnished sky.英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
"Thou pretty, brazen baggage," her father laughed. "Old Dunstanwolde looked thee well over to-night. He never looked away from the moment he clapped eyes on thee."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Andrea, the boatman, still paused. Now she saw him staring into her face, and she felt like a woman publicly deserted, almost humiliated. "Avanti, Andrea!" she said. Her voice trembled as she spoke. He bent to his oars and rowed on. And man is the nomad, and the camel--and the desert. Yes, she carried the desert within her, and she was wandering in it alone. She saw herself, a poor, starved, shrinking figure, travelling through a vast, a burning, a waterless expanse, with an iron sky above her, a brazen land beneath.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Come, come, my lass," cried the old oak veteran, "I'm not going to put a bullet through you, you know! You tell me all. about it, and it'll do you more good than harm. There, I'll put the nasty thing away and - God bless me, if the brazen wench hasn't squeezed into the wife's kit!"英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
As for Fanny, she had attracted wonderful attention in the garden, and was elated; her conscience did not prick her in the least, for such a trifle as _de'tournement des fonds;_ and public admiration did not improve her: she was sprightly and talkative as usual; but now she was also a trifle brazen, and pert all round.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Fanny Dover reflected a moment, then delivered herself thus: "You were wrong to tell a fib about it. What you must do now--brazen it out. Tell her you love her, but have got your pride and will not come into her family a pauper. Defy her, to be sure; we like to be defied now and then, when we are fond of the fellow."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Axelrod has never made a move as brazen, as public as looting a working class town.美剧 · 《Billions》
No, all that's supposed to make me more brazen when I know I'm fucking right.美剧 · 《Billions》
Cocky 'cause he drives fast, but too brazen, too cutthroat.美剧 · 《Billions》
You are pretty brazen for a woman who just admitted, however tacitly, that she just slept with my husband.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》