Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
Bacon.

It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Pepys.

Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
Shak.

For I have gold, and therefore will be brave.
In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
Robert Greene.

Frog and lizard in holiday coats
And turtle brave in his golden spots.
Emerson.

Syn. -- Courageous; gallant; daring; valiant; valorous; bold; heroic; intrepid; fearless; dauntless; magnanimous; high-spirited; stout- hearted. See Gallant.

The star-spangled banner, O,long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
F. S. Key.

Hot braves like thee may fight.
Dryden.

Demetrius, thou dost overween in all;
And so in this, to bear me down with braves.
Shak.

These I can brave, but those I can not bear.
Dryden.

Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.
Shak.