What is "bramah"

Usage examples of "bramah".

Why should a decent and kindly writer like Ernest Bramah find the crushing of the proletariat a pleasant vision?

Such heightened sensitivity as compensation for blindness was used earlier by the British author Ernest Bramah, who created the blind detective Max Carrados, and later by the American writer Baynard Kendrick, whose sightless sleuth was Captain Duncan Maclain.

This had apparently no other exit, and Arthur was beginning to wonder where the museum could be, when she took a tiny bramah key from her watch-chain, and with it opened a door that was papered and painted to match the wall exactly.

In fact, Ernest Bramah was his real name, Ernest Bramah Smith, and he labored anonymously on the editorial staff of a number of highly regarded publications.

Eddison, Ernest Bramah and Thomas Ligotti, along with an extremely brief interview with Dame Muriel Spark and various book reviews.

He scrutinized the works of Joseph Bramah, the greatest locksmith who ever lived.

It was a variation on the Bramah, a notoriously intransigent lock that could be openedand even then with difficultyonly by a long, arcane, tubular key, intricately notched at one end.

Devised by the Englishman Joseph Bramah in the 1760s, it had gone unpicked, inviolate, for over half a century until it was finally cracked.

The white priests of Bramah gave him all their law, teaching him the language and religion of the dwellers of the five rivers.

Christ would have left more of an impress upon India than it did, and that Christianity there and in India would have been synchronous, but we must remember, that there among the idols of Bramah and Vishnu, the way was not prepared, the people unexpectant of a new prophet, unwarned of him and unheeded.

Although they are partly followers of Bramah and Pythagoras, they do not believe in the transmigration of souls, except in some cases, by a distinct decree of God.

Seeva, with Bramah and Vishnu, manifestations of the One Deity, 205-u.

Vishnu, with Bramah and Seeva, manifestations of the One Deity, 205-u.

Bramah patented quill nibs made by splitting quills and cutting the semicylinders into sections which were shaped into pens and adapted to be placed in a holder.

On the expiry of Boulton and Watt's patent, Bramah introduced several valuable improvements in the details of the condensing engine, which had by that time become an established power,—.