What is "branlins"

Usage examples of "branlins".

The Branlins, thirteen and fourteen years of age, had peroxided blond hair and delighted in destruction.

I had heard from Davy Ray Callan that the Branlins sometimes tried to run cars off the street with their speeding black bikes, and that he’d actually witnessed Gotha Branlin, the oldest, tell his own mother to go to the bad place.

All during the rest of that prayer, I could hear the Branlins back there, whispering and giggling like evil trolls.

Reverend Lovoy came in with his family, Sheriff Amory and his wife and daughters entered, the Branlins came in, and so did Mr.

The Branlins stopped with me between them, Gotha on my right and Gordo on my left.

It was bad enough that Nemo was so small and skinny, but when the Branlins heard that lisp, it was going to be all she wrote.

In any case, the Branlins knew no law but their own, and this situation was rapidly spiraling into the danger zone.

It is worse still when there is a yellow stripe down his back, as evidenced by the fact that the Branlins never went after boys their age or older.

When Johnny was gasping for air, the blood bubbling from his nostrils, the Branlins advanced on me again.

I had no doubt that Nemo could hit either one of the Branlins right between the eyes and knock their brains out.

Davy Ray was all right, too, except his face was a mass of bruises and one of the Branlins had stepped on his fingers.

The Branlins might come back and tear it to pieces before Johnny’s dad could come get it, but it was the best we could do.

Then it dawned on our foggy minds that the Branlins might be in the patch of woods still, where they’d been waiting for Mr.

We knew what was to come: horror from our parents, indignation at the Branlins, angry phone calls, probably a visit by the sheriff, an empty promise from Mr.

So the Branlins had done something even worse than beating us up: they’d stolen part of Johnny Wilson’s summer away from him, and he would never again be twelve years old in June.