Historical Examples

• You and I, Wullie, we'll brak' oorsel's slavin' for him while he looks on and laffs.

  Bob, Son of Battle

  Alfred Ollivant

• Gin I do naething, my hert 'll brak wi' the weicht o' my shame.'

  Robert Falconer

  George MacDonald

• He'll brak his shins agean some o' yer pots, and tables, and stuff.

  Shirley

  Charlotte Bront

• "Ye've anither arm to brak, Giles," said Mike, in a low voice.

  Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland

  Various

• The Brak was in spate, and he could not cross it to Prieska.

  A Handbook of the Boer War

  Gale and Polden, Limited