Burnt, in cooking

Usage examples of brule.

For the chief of staff, the great and famous surgeon, the veritable emperor of that small, intensely circumscribed and terribly important world, Dr Brule Hatterick, had frowned on make-up on the faces of his nurses.

Would she, Rue, succeed in the exacting eyes of the great Brule Hatterick?

Madge, Brule had told her in that curiously frank interview, that he wanted her, Rue, for a wife.

She never knew exactly how much he knew of her curious relationship with Brule, but she thought he guessed a great deal, for he was extremely sensitive.

Expecting Brule, it was disconcerting to see instead a tall, lean figure whose youthfully graceful shoulders and blond hair she instantly recognized.

She had nursed for Andy as she had for Brule, and she gave him grudgingly a professional respect.

Was it because she forgot for the moment that she was now Mrs Brule Hatterick, enviable in her security, in her luxury, in her position?

Tonight when the police came I was closing the office, the office girl and nurse had gone, and Brule had gone to see a patient at the hospital.

Asked particularly to make sure Brule was not in the office and there was no way he could hear them.

Of all the things those hours of thought had stirred in her mind to say to him, nothing seemed poised and able to cut through the hard and brilliant shell which always, as long as she had known him, encased the great and clever Brule Hatterick.

Was it because Brule had taken control of the situation from her own frightened, faltering hands?

Or was it because Brule had looked at Julie and if there had been anything at all that could have been done to save her Brule would have done it?

Rue, passed while the police and Brule remained for the most part in the second floor room where Julie had died.

Rue realized with a start that the man Murphy was reading a statement that Brule must have made.

Alicia and Brule appeared in the doorway, outlined clearly against the lighted long room behind them.