What is "brittles"

Usage examples of "brittles".

Giles, Brittles, and the tinker, were recruiting themselves, after the fatigues and terrors of the night, with tea and sundries, in the kitchen.

I'll call up that poor lad, Brittles, and save him from being murdered in his bed.

And seeing, by the bye, that Brittles had been a slow boy for upwards of thirty years, there appeared no great probability of his ever being a fast one.

Blathers and Duff, attended by the native constable, Brittles, Giles, and everybody else in short, went into the little room at the end of the passage and looked out at the window.

Giles and Brittles were put through a melodramatic representation of their share in the previous night's adventures: which they performed some six times over: contradiction each other, in not more than one important respect, the first time, and in not more than a dozen the last.

Giles and Brittles, they still remain in their old posts, although the former is bald, and the last-named boy quite grey.

Giles and Brittles were put through a melodramatic representation of their share in the previous night's adventures.