What is "braved"

Usage examples of "braved".

Fortunatus braved the church and returned with three miraculously unbroken lamps and a jar of oil.

As she spoke in Wendish, certain centaurs murmured a running translation to their comrades as did Gyasi to the Pechanek Quman one man and one womanwho had braved the displeasure of their tribes' mothers to follow him.

They braved the heat, waiting for their chance as the logs burned from inside out.

One of Bertha's soldiers, a giant of a man with massive shoulders and thick arms, threw a cloak over his head and braved the flames with ax in hand, hacking at the wood.

A few animals braved the quiet: two squirrels scrabbling up a rustling branch, three pigs, a deer.

While I was prowling about the room waiting for him to show up, I suddenly caught sight of the bally Woman who Braved All lying on one of the tables.

Deflector shield technology had come a long way since Captain Kirk braved the barrier in the original Starship Enterprise.

If he braved the matter out, death would unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and unforeseen manner.

The little lady already engaged there to come by the hour, a fat dark little lady with a foreign name and dirty fingers, who wore, throughout, a bonnet that had at first given her a deceptive air, too soon dispelled, of not staying long, besides asking her pupil questions that had nothing to do with lessons, questions that Beale Farange himself, when two or three were repeated to him, admitted to be awfully low--this strange apparition faded before the bright creature who had braved everything for Maisie's sake.