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Definition of Browning
Browning

of Brown

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

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Browning Quotations

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
Hermann Goering

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.
Marie Corelli

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?
Dorothy Fields

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
Marie Corelli

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.
Hanns Johst

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
Edward Dowden


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