Godden's "In This House of ___"

Usage examples of brede.

Several others, including Brede, stand by the schedule board and puzzle over the schedule printed there.

With her stand two others, plates in hand-a brown-haired youth as tall as Brede and a slender black-haired girl taller than Kadara.

Dorrin puts his half-empty cup in one of the slots in the center of the table and stands, glancing from Kadara to Brede and back.

Because he is not even as tall as Dorrin, his eyes must look up to Brede, who overtops everyone on the pier by a least half a head.

A single horse, swaybacked, is tethered before the store Brede points out as a chandlery.

Then he looks at Brede and Kadara, efficiently determining their needs.

The shopkeeper drops a shoulder toward Brede, who stands before a barrel from which he is extracting small pouches of something.

Dorrin goes back to the other counter, avoiding Brede and the shopkeeper.

Dorrin, who looks spindly even beside the broad-shouldered Kadara, to Brede and back to the apprentice healer.

Kadara straps on both blades and looks at Brede, whose hands reach for the big sword, as if to make sure it is still in place.

To have Kadara and Brede defending him and looking down at his ineptitude?

Kadara and Brede dispatched the three bandits as if they had no skills whatsoever.

Kadara rides beside Brede, her short red hair fluttering in the breeze.

By the time he has tied the mare to the fir pole suspended between two stone uprights, Kadara and Brede have brushed away the faint white dust that seems to rise from the streets of Fairhaven and straightened their harnesses and swords.

Alys and Jyll both seem from a somewhat indulged back-ground, yet Brede and Shendr seem almost common in background.