What is "brassey"

Usage examples of "brassey".

Charles Brassey, President of the famous seed firm, speaking in his private office of the London establishment.

He vaguely wondered whether Brassey had not carefully rehearsed the scene in order to impress a New Yorker.

Vartan absently shook his head, and Brassey, with a stiff bow, withdrew.

For the first time Vartan had an uneasy feeling that all was not so open and aboveboard as Brassey had tried to make it appear.

As Brassey could have no reason for having his own conversations overheard, one of two things must be true.

All that elaborate materializing and vanishing act of his was staged to make us suspect Brassey of spying on us.

To the intense surprise of both men, Brassey capitulated without a fight.

Having blotted the last copy, Brassey rang for two clerks to witness the signatures.

To him it was a signal that Brassey still distrusted Vartan and himself, and that he had, rather meanly, used Marjorie to spy on their loyalty.

It would be to the advantage of Brassey House to learn the nature of Mr.

He wrote out a five-word message to Charles Brassey, London, giving his own address as that of the cable office in which he was.

Vartan began reading aloud, in as impersonal a voice as he could master, the moving history of James Brassey, written by his younger brother Charles.

It has been part of my plan from the beginning to send with you a personal representative whom I can trust implicitly, in order that his presence might constantly remind you of your obligations to Brassey House.

Nevertheless it is my duty to disclose at least one of the secrets of the Brassey family and that, I assure you, the darkest, in order that the intrepid men now listening to our tragic history may enter upon their task with open eyes.

World War both James and I were called to the Foreign Office, as our work at Brassey House had given us an intimate knowledge of certain conditions in the Orient.