I gave you ample bracing time.

So I was bracing myself for the moment.

Unlike Python where we can just use tabbing and whitespace to indicate what parts of the code are blocks or subparts of the rest of the code, we use braces, and forgive my poor bracing technique.

We talked of rude and simple times, when men sat about large fires in cold, bracing weather, with clear heads and when other dessert failed, we tried our teeth on many a nut which wise squirrels have long since abandoned, for those which have the thickest shells are commonly empty.