Read full poem →Beside whose trunk the gipsy makes his bed.
Up flies the bouncing woodcock from the brig
Where a black quagmire quakes beneath the tread,
Dictionary Entry
A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
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Common Phrases
. briggen brigbrig americanbrig britishbrig gun
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Poetry examples for “brig”
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Read full poem →When for school oer Little Field with its brook and wooden brig,
Where I swaggered like a man though I was not half so big,
Read full poem →And water blobs and all their golden kin
Crowd round the shallows by the striding brig.
Daisies and buttercups and ladysmocks
Read full poem →Sept. 19. Sail from Malta in brig-of-war _Spider_. (Letter 131.)
Read full poem →his friend Lord Sligo, who in July, 1810, was anchored off Athens in "a
twelve-gun brig, with a crew of fifty men" (see _Letters_, 1898, i. 289,
note 1), requesting him to put on paper not so much the narrative of an
Read full poem →All these are fading now;
Our brig hastes on her way,
Her unremembering prow