It is a Middle Earth word – yet it’s also a loud instrument with a wonderfully eerie sound!
- 01.094 even to Old Took’s great-grand-uncle Bullroarer,
- 01.095 Bullroarer’s gentler descendant was reviving
- 01.097 Bullroarer Took, and – ‘
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Bulge
- 05.011 with big bulging blind eyes,
Bulbous
- 08.005 were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes.
Buffet
- 10.010 and buffeted he could hardly stand or stumble
Brushwood
- 06.072 and brushwood round the tree-trunks.
Bruise
- 03.034 Their clothes were mended as well as their bruises,
- 05.008 and bruises,
- 06.043 and were rubbing their bruised
- 06.046 My toes are all bruised
- 09.033 We shall be bruised
- 10.010 so bruised
- 10.012 and bruised
- 10.013 with only a bruise or two
Browse
“Browse” the noun (young buds and shoots) has an unvoiced S. The voicing of the S in this verb is like “grass/graze”, “advice/advise”, “use (n)/ use (v)”.
- 07.133 of red deer browsing
“browse | browze, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 28 July 2015.
Brood
- 05.098 naturally, for Gollum had brooded for ages on this one thing,
- 11.019 for danger brooded
- 15.049 upon which a dragon has long brooded,
Brink
- 03.026 and so at last to the very brink of the river.
- 05.010 or the brink of a deep dark subterranean lake.
- 05.014 while Bilbo was sitting on the brink
- 08.009 Bilbo kneeling on the brink
- 19.001 to the brink of the valley of Rivendell,
Brim
- 01.008 that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.
- 13.037 and studded about the brim with white gems,
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