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Mr Heathcliff has just honoured me with a calls About seven days ago he sent me a brace of grouse--the last of the season.

The two shoulder between them a mere two rucksacks, plus a brace of day sacks which a guide transports separately on a motorbike.

The next thing I laid hold of was a brace of pistols, and as I already had a powder-horn and bullets, I felt myself well supplied with arms.

Nearer the door, the Queen's Hand was attacking a brace of 'capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale.

Half a stag is better than a brace of rabbits, but the stag will only be brought down with a combined effort.

Following abortive bids by a brace of private equity firms, Telefonica of Spain is now mulling taking a stake.

But a brace of deals announced during his visit showed France is eager to court China's own atomic power sector.

On Monday, the US, piqued at China's huge bilateral trade surplus, vowed to take a brace of legal cases to the World Trade Organisation.

This time a brace of quails flew in, and he carried them to the King.

And I for winking at your discords too have lost a brace of kinsmen : all are punish'd.

A brace of regulatory initiatives also suggests that national authorities have become much more focused on their own interests.

I had a brace of unloaded pocket pistols with me and slept unperturbed.

Reds' striker Peter Crouch netted a brace of goals before being substituted to keep him fresh for the derby.

and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello.

It'll take a brace of days to pro assessment your appliance.

A brace of tame deer ran familiarly about the house.