Meaning of Broil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Food prepared by broiling.
2. A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“Cluffe, externally acquiescing, had yet made up his mind⟳, if a decent opportunity presented, to be detected and made prisoner, and that the honest troubadours should sup on a hot broil, and sip some of the absent General's curious Madeira at the feet of their respective mistresses, with all the advantage which a situation so romantic and so private would offer⟳.”

“come⟳ to broils”

“But to give⟳ the faireſt Play⟳ to every ſide of the Queſtion, I vvill own⟳ that there is a Haughtineſs, and Fierceneſs in human Nature, vvhich vvill cauſe innumerable Broils, place⟳ Men in vvhat State you pleaſe; but ovvning this, I ſtill inſiſt in charging to Political Regulations, that theſe Broils are ſo frequent, ſo cruel, and attended vvith ſo deplorable Conſequences.”

“"Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock⟳ him up in the chapel, to tell⟳ his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear⟳ aves and paters; they have⟳ not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut⟳ out of stone."”

“So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole […]”

“Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort⟳ and another have⟳ greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have⟳ made.”

““I have⟳ never sought an unrighteous broil. I have⟳ never broken my word.””

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