Bree
Also known as Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah, Bree the Horse
A Narnian Talking Horse captured as a foal and raised in Calormen. He escapes with Shasta, though his pride and assumptions about Narnian freedom are tested along the way.
This encyclopedia follows the whole story. Plot details from all seven chronicles may appear below.
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In the chronicles
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The Horse and His Boy26 cited passages⌄
- Chapter I · paragraph 68
"Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah," said the Horse.
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"I'll never be able to say that," said Shasta. "Can I call you Bree?"
Open passage → - Chapter II · paragraph 2
"Ow, Bree," he gasped. "I'm so sore. All over. I can hardly move."
Open passage → - Chapter II · paragraph 3
"Good morning, small one," said Bree. "I was afraid you might feel a bit stiff. It can't be the falls. You didn't have more than a dozen or so, and …
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"Hush, Ma'am, hush," said Bree, who was thoroughly enjoying the story. "She's telling it in the grand Calormene manner and no story-teller in …
Open passage → - Chapter III · paragraph 9
"Be quiet, youngster," said Bree. "You're spoiling the story. She'll tell us all about the letter in the right place. Go on, Tarkheena."
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 2
"Get on, Shasta," Bree kept saying.
Open passage → - Chapter IV · paragraph 5
"I daresay," said Bree. "But I wish we were safely through it and out at the other side. Narnia and the north!"
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 53
… he was left behind in Tashbaan. He was a little worried about Aravis and Bree waiting for him at the Tombs. But then he said to himself, "Well, how can I help it?" and, "Anyway, that Aravis…
Open passage → - Chapter V · paragraph 66
…alormen. And I'm escaping: across the desert; with a talking Horse called Bree. And now, quick! How do I get away?"
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 3
…minutes' walk away on his left, what must certainly be the Tombs, just as Bree had described them; great masses of mouldering stone shaped like gigantic bee-hives, but a little narrower. The…
Open passage → - Chapter VI · paragraph 7
…gone on without me. It's just the sort of thing that Aravis would do. But Bree wouldn't. Oh, he wouldn't--now, would he?"
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 1
…uldn't say a word, she never lost her head even for a moment. She grabbed Bree's halter and stood still, holding both the horses; and though her heart was beating as hard as a hammer, she di…
Open passage → - Chapter VII · paragraph 42
…have to be food in Hwin's saddle-bags and a full water-skin behind yours, Bree. The man has orders to let you both have a good long drink at the far side of the bridge."
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 19
But before she had reached them she saw Bree and Hwin and the groom.
Open passage → - Chapter IX · paragraph 22
…conds Aravis was busy kissing the noses and patting the necks of Hwin and Bree just as if they were quite ordinary horses.
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 2
"Broo-hoo-hoo, the North, the green North!" neighed Bree: and certainly the lower hills looked greener and fresher than anything that Aravis and Shasta, with their sout…
Open passage → - Chapter X · paragraph 4
"Friends, we are in Archenland!" said Bree proudly as he splashed and churned his way out on the northern bank. "I think that river we've just crossed is …
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 15
… a moment later he was in the saddle. He had done it a hundred times with Bree in the last few weeks, and his mounting was very different now from what it had been on that first night when B…
Open passage → - Chapter XI · paragraph 18
… to do with his reins, for he had never touched the reins while he was on Bree's back. But he looked very carefully out of the corners of his eyes to see what the others were doing (as some …
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 19
…rn March sat gazing into the smooth pool beneath the spreading tree, with Bree and Hwin and Aravis beside him.
Open passage → - Chapter XIII · paragraph 22
"By the Mane, my old master Anradin!" said Bree.
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 4
"Oh not to-day, Ma'am," said Bree. "I wouldn't hurry things. Some other day, don't you think?"
Open passage → - Chapter XIV · paragraph 6
"Exactly!" said Bree with great enthusiasm. "Just what I was going to say."
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 7
Then the King turned to Hwin and Bree and was just as polite to them as to Aravis, and asked them a lot of questions about their families and where t…
Open passage → - Chapter XV · paragraph 46
… and when it was over they wished it was going to begin again. And though Bree couldn't sing he told the story of the fight at Zalindreh. And Lucy told again (they had all, except Aravis and…
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The Silver Chair1 cited passage⌄
The Last Battle2 cited passages⌄
- Chapter XV · paragraph 39
…y we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this. Bree-hee-hee! Come further up, come further in!"
Open passage → - Chapter XVI · paragraph 30
…e, Queen Aravis and the brave prince, Corin Thunder-Fist, his brother and Bree the Horse and Hwin the Mare. And then--which was a wonder beyond all wonders to Tirian--there came from further away in t…
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