Brassing

"Here is a letter from Clemmens of Brassing tied with the will. He drew it up. A very respectable solicitor."

And happening the next day to accompany a patient to Brassing, he saw a dinner-service there which struck him as so exactly the right thing that he bought it at once.

He was fortunate enough when he got on to the highroad to be overtaken by the stage-coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new-made railway.

Protheroe will come from Brassing

a political personage from Brassing, who came to tell Middlemarch its duty

He was not only excited with his play, but visions were gleaming on him of going the next day to Brassing, where there was gambling on a grander scale to be had, and where, by one powerful snatch at the devil's bait, he might carry it off without the hook, and buy his rescue from his daily solicitings.