| 1. | I have seldom seen such brawn in a man. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstrain. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | Nor to feed the arrogant blood of the brawn belov'd of time. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 4. | I'll play Percy, and that damn'd brawn shall play Dam. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | buttock, the quatch buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | The Muscular in this case furnishes the brawn to work out the plans made by the brain of the Cerebral, and the combination is one that stands a good chance of happiness. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half-believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 8. | BELLO _Sarcastically_ I wouldn't hurt your feelings for the world but there's a man of brawn in possession there. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | --When they have eaten the brawn and the bread and wiped their twenty fingers in the paper the bread was wrapped in they go nearer to the railings. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | The brawns of Hercules but his Jovial face. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | combed His limbs were great, his brawns were hard and strong, His shoulders broad, his armes round and long. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |