H.P. Lovecraft (1937), “The Thing on the Doorstep”, in The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories, Richmond: Alma Classics, published 2015, →ISBN, page 339: “There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre – not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow “sophisticate,” which Derby had habitually affected, but something brim, basic, pervasive and potentially evil.”

The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.

Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.

He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

2006 New York Times
It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.

Djokovic, brimming with energy and confidence, needed little encouragement and came haring in to chase down a drop shot in the next game, angling away the backhand to break before turning to his supporters to celebrate.

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