| 单词 | braggart |
| 例句 | Unless a group of little girls chanted some especially clever riddle, my mother, who distrusts people with public concerns, braggarts, went over to the quiet older girls with the dignified bows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get back, you scurvy braggart! Back, you rogue!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z "They will give you nothing but flattery and lies. The Spicers are dissemblers and braggarts and the Brotherhood is full of pirates." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This is the moment, Your Highness, that you might as well reveal our plan to all of the noble sneaks, eaves-droppers, braggarts, blowhards, and backstabbers who surround your throne. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Those people have now got me down for a braggart and a liar. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “A braggart of a man,” her father said after the landlord left, and then he said nothing else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was a poser, a braggart, and a tyrant. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Had she been a braggart, it would have been much easier to hate her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z By l935, Joe Kennedy had worn out his welcome with President Roosevelt, despite his brilliance in building the Securities and Exchange Commission: To Roosevelt, the Boston banker was a braggart. Jean Kennedy Smith Remembers Growing Up Kennedy 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z I didn’t mind that he was a braggart – name-dropping Hollywood celebrities who had done his yoga, boasting about his wealth. He made a fortune from his trademarked Bikram yoga, but now his empire is in tatters 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z An impressive braggart, Weist isn’t trying to come off as a father figure. “Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling Look at the Making of a Teen Influencer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The audience wanted “a braggart who lived large and said that it was O.K. to want things,” Poniewozik writes of Trump’s many television appearances in the 1980s and beyond. Which Came First, Trump or TV? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Who would want anything more to do with this vainglorious braggart than is necessary? A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In The Squid and the Whale, Jeff Daniels saw himself as a revered academic but he was a petty braggart. The 50 best films of 2015 in the US: No 10 – Mistress America 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Cesare, a “duplicitous, self-confident braggart,” probably had a hand in his brother Juan’s murder and led the military campaigns to bring Italy’s city states under papal control. Review | The sordid tale of the Borgias and other great audiobooks for your playlist 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z No one was really ever impressed by a money braggart, anyway.The year was unusual and interesting from the start. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Surprises and Challenges for Video Games in 2013 2013-12-24T13:01:19Z I will admit to knowing and loving them: “When some loud braggart tries to put me down/ and says his school is great.” In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “What would happen if a braggart like this one, from a Venezuelan TV station, ordered the assassination of the president of the United States? We would prosecute him, because that is a serious crime.” Peruvian emigre gives US voice to Venezuela hard-liners 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z It’s entirely possible that your neighbor is a materialistic braggart who is waving to draw attention to her fancy new car. Can We End This Cycle of Favoritism? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z As for his parents’ bragging, hasn’t anyone told you that braggarts only seem self-confident? Should I Let My Boyfriend Be a Poll Worker on Election Day? 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z His braggart of a menu pushes sinful ingredients like toro tuna, osetra caviar and a quivering lamb marrow finely sliced like banana. | D?sseldorf, Germany 2012-05-11T16:18:27Z So how to build one’s brand without Clintonian or Kardashian polarization, or, as Professor Campbell phrased it, looking like “a braggart or arrogant weasel”? Of Myself I Sing 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But the depiction of Martin as an evil, chauvinistic braggart is fictional and highly unpleasant -- and it's tough not to notice that he's one of only two nonwhite speaking characters in the film. "Secretariat": A gorgeous, creepy American myth 2010-10-07T00:30:00Z The answer was as good a one-sentence encapsulation of the bodybuilder/entrepreneur/movie star/politician/braggart’s philosophy as all of “Total Recall,” his 646-page memoir, provides. Books of The Times: ‘Total Recall,’ by Arnold Schwarzenegger With Peter Petre 2012-10-01T00:40:43Z He suffered the fall from grace of the braggart, took himself to Paris in 2010 because he thought it might understand him better, and then returned, penitent and ready to work. Even ‘Project Runway’ Couldn’t Save Zac Posen 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Whoever wrote the copy on the jacket flap bragged that Berger, a celebrated New York Times reporter and columnist who was no braggart himself, “knew that Broad Street was once called ‘Smell Street Lane.’” The City That Won’t Shut Up Fills Two New Books With Its Babble 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Also, panderers, seducers, traffickers in flattery, false prophets, braggarts and thieves. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What is Trump’s eternal fate? The Legions of Darkness have some thoughts. 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Hotspur, the rebel nobleman and martial monomaniac, is played by Jade Anouka as a braggart boxer à la the young Muhammad Ali, with taped fists and a personal gym. Review: ‘Henry IV,’ Donmar Warehouse’s All-Female Version 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Rather than making Darrow seem more relatable or genuine, his wonderfully smooth voice and physical grace render the character more of a fake, as well as an egotist and a braggart. Review: Kevin Spacey as Clarence Darrow, Stadium Size 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Hunched rather demonically over a piano, the tycoon is shown with the feathers and crest of the braggart bird, surrounded by his expansive collection of ceramics. Darren Waterston’s Interpretation of James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Samuel loves the thrill of discovery, and while he admires his braggart professor father, he does not want to inherit the man’s volatility and flexible morality. Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Her husband, the happy braggart, had slightly more pedestrian concerns on songs like “Tom Ford” and “Dirt off Your Shoulder.” Beyoncé and Jay Z Kick Off Shared ‘On the Run’ Tour 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Previously a shameless braggart with all the self-awareness of a sock-brace, suddenly he was warm, friendly and brilliant, explaining to clients that what drove him was losing his father at 18. Rewind TV: The Call Centre; The Apprentice; The Americans; Love and Marriage; The Unspeakable Crime: Rape 2013-06-08T17:04:01Z "He was just some braggart saying, 'I'm D.B. Cooper,' you know?" The 6 most surprising "D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!" revelations from Netflix's docuseries 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z West is used to being written off by many as a shallow, petulant, needy, self-serving braggart, a talented artist who can’t resist impaling himself on his own ego. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z He’s a great Falstaffian incarnation of the braggart soldier type that dates back to Plautus. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z And earlier this year, Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph called him "bilious" "obnoxious" and "a braggart" who makes "playground barbs" with "smirking disingenuousness". Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z The stock characters include wily servants, miserly old pantaloons, sweet young lovers and braggart warriors. Surely, he jests: Matthew R. Wilson’s classic clowning in ‘One-Man Commedia Epic’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z There are many reasons, among them that the man is an inveterate braggart more desperate for a stamp of validation than some guy with an $80 parking tab in a suburban mall. Perspective | She dreamed a seal was the leader of the free world. What could that mean? 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z That it’s a wildly conservative place full of oil roughnecks and cowboys and brash braggarts. Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Trump is a nasty piece of work: a crybaby, a braggart and an ignorant fool. Ron DeSantis' genius plan goes sideways: Is his 2024 campaign suddenly in trouble? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Sonny Barger, 83, the bigger-than-life godfather of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, equal parts brawler, bully, braggart, rule breaker and shrewd huckster of his own outlaw mystique, died Wednesday at his home in California. This week’s passages 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z With Ukraine’s population of more than 40 million — and setting aside big-talkers, braggarts and blusterers — that could mean millions of people fighting back against the 190,000 troops Putin sent to overthrow the Zelensky government. Op-Ed: Russia's got 'shock and awe' down, but can Putin outlast Ukraine's resistance? 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z He taped it the way a braggart might. Perspective | Claiming self-defense in the face of privilege and boogeymen 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z He’s a braggart — even more so than most politicians. Column: Newsom is admonished for his big-spending budget by Sacramento's legislative analyst 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to sound like a braggart. I’d rather have somebody else give us credit. But the truth is the truth.” Whodini rapper John 'Ecstasy' Fletcher, hip-hop pioneer, dies at 56 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “He just did not suffer fools, braggarts, or idiots well.” Ralph Z. Hallow remembered for sharp wit, relentless reporting, insight into GOP political scene 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z “He’s a modest person. He’s not a braggart, but he loves to do things that are different and challenging. When everyone is swimming downstream, he is swimming upstream.” Zappos CEO retiring after 20 years leading shoe seller 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z But that language fails to capture the extent of the public humiliation for Parscale, a braggart who spends almost as much time hyping himself as he does hyping the candidate. Trump dumps Brad Parscale — but the campaign's failures are all about him 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump, the misogynous braggart, surely should account for his actions. Opinion | The allegation against Joe Biden 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z But that is not the story told by his ex-wife, a self-described wiccan pagan, who publicizes his whereabouts on social media and calls Mattern “a con man, braggart, narcissist, misogynist and worse.” He was touted as the Mojave Desert's savior. Authorities said it was all a ruse 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z "I never liked him: I think he is a bully, a braggart, a big mouth, and a not-so-merry prankster, but this is very, very unfair. This is a process crime." Geraldo Rivera calls Roger Stone a 'bully' and a 'braggart' but admits prosecution has 'very, very unfair' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z I guess this was supposed to paint Unsworth as a braggart, but to me, this mostly suggested that Price wasn’t that familiar with Instagram, either. Elon Musk’s lawyers pressure caver Unsworth for an apology 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Rogow described his client as a natural braggart whose claims of insider information didn't match reality. Roger Stone's lawyers argue reasonable doubt in closing arguments, as prosecutors say he deliberately lied 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z A government of nepotists, chancers, fools, flunkeys, flatterers, hypocrites, braggarts and whiners. Nigel Farage is the malign spectre haunting Boris Johnson’s new government | Nick Cohen 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Without that, it is possible for people who are not personally accomplished, who pontificate in recycled stock phrases, who polarize situations and who are insatiable braggarts coveting media coverage, to acquire power and influence. The rise and fall of scientific authority — and how to bring it back 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The president is a natural braggart, boasting and peacocking about his achievements — even those he imagines, such as the fake Time magazine covers featuring himself that decorate the walls of his private golf clubs. The 10 personas of Donald Trump in a single speech 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Cifuentes' testimony also offered fodder for another defense argument: Guzman wasn't a murderous cartel mastermind; he was a showman, a braggart in love with fame. Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman found guilty in U.S. trial 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most surprising detail of the indictment is that Stone, a famous braggart, often downplayed the significance of his role as a conduit between the Trump campaign and Assange. Robert Mueller Got Roger Stone 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The world leaders chuckled at the braggart before them. Opinion | Trump is the laughingstock of the world 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z We win because of who we are, and I don’t mean that in any braggart way — but ‘We Are Kentwood’ is their slogan. Kentwood football has never had a losing season. Now, they’re 0-3 and fighting to keep the streak alive 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z When Moshfegh assesses her talent, she sounds less like a braggart than like a guileless child, announcing what she perceives to be inarguably accurate. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Otherworldly Fiction 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Early in the campaign, Adelson considered Trump to be little more than a braggart. Donald Trump’s New World Order 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z He can be aggressive and unpolished and would never be described as a wonk, but he isn’t a braggart or a narcissist. A ‘Tin-Pot Northern Trump’? Hardly 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z This made him seem the opposite of the money-crazed braggarts who soon populated the sport. The Ski Pole That Norway Will Never Forget 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Russia, China, the Phillipines see him for what he is--a braggart and aberration undercutting US moral, economic and military leadership. Trump Lauds ‘Great Relationship’ With Duterte in Manila 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Others may see a braggart, but Brooks simply recognizes a proud papa. LaVar Ball had his say. Now John Wall pledges to show ‘no mercy’ against Lonzo. 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Further reflection revealed connections between those concepts and a complex taxonomy of other terms—being down, game, chill, wack, a blowhard, braggart, killjoy, and others—which I systematically detail in the book. How to Be Awesome 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z Trump is a blindingly obvious braggart with the skills of someone playing the slot machines in Reno, varying between good fortune and loud noises. Trump's meeting with Putin shows two men cut from the same cloth 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The braggart US president is intent on making history, by misgoverning on a global scale. The Guardian view on Trump’s Middle East: unsafe | Editorial 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s grotesque that the aspirations of working-class Americans came to be represented by a braggart billionaire from New York who masks his shameless elitism with rhetoric about making the country great again. Opinion | Democrats have lost their way. Here’s how they can find it again. 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z An impulsive braggart and bigot is now in control of the world’s most powerful military and economy. Trump's first speech in office was unapologetic appeal to nationalism | Gary Younge 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z This know-nothing braggart is about to take the US down a road only his lunatic fringe rubes supporters will cheer. With Choice of Trade Negotiator, Trump Prepares to Confront Mexico and China 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Research shows that people dislike braggarts who express superiority, because this suggest the person views other people, including the listener, negatively. When Is It OK to Brag? 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z In an age of braggarts and posers, he is content to deal in modest thruths. Keir Starmer, a Lilliputian against a giant 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It seems to be in part a tale of comeuppance and redemption for a bullish braggart — just the movie we need right now, as composer Lin-Manuel Miranda has been saying on his press tour. In the wake of Donald Trump's victory, some movies don't feel like they were intended to 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Trump, a reality show braggart, knew how to stoke populist furor and feed an endless media appetite. The 2016 Presidential Campaign Reaches Its Final Hours 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But while the government painted the men as entitled braggarts, the defense described their clients as stupid, but well-connected, novices. Venezuelan 'narconephews' bad at drug smuggling, defense and prosecution say 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z For months we have known that Trump is a sexist and a braggart with an interior life that most probably resembles the decimated hellscape around Hiroshima’s ground zero on the day after the blast. When it comes to character, trust your ears | David Ferguson 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z He had lost nearly 100 pounds since his heyday as a self-described “enforcer” and “bad cop” for Mr. Christie at the Port Authority, making him seem even more like a deflated braggart. Credibility Bruised, Ex-Ally of Christie Hews to Story as Bridge Case Testimony Ends 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Clinton’s team and Trump’s boosters are equally unsure which version of the billionaire will show up: the braggart or the businessman? Inside the Finals Hours of Debate Prep 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z He wrote: “Selfish men, bullies, and braggarts don’t perform well in battle. And those believing in their own extraordinariness rarely if ever accomplish feats worthy of the MoH.” Donald Trump: A con man among heroes 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z All I can tell is that he inherited wealth, is a braggart, and does only what works to further line his own pockets, even at the expense of others. Hillary Clinton’s Convention: Day 4 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Europeans are troubled by the rise of what many consider this angry billionaire braggart who specializes in offending people and showing his ignorance. Europe’s Disgust Over Trump 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Ali was a braggart and a loudmouth, Louis a gentleman to the core. Letters to the Editor 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z When it turns out he's just a paunchy braggart who can't fly, Red realizes with exasperation that "the fate of the world relies on idiots like me." 'Angry Birds' movie reveals the story behind the wacky rage 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z U.S. and British media have translated it as “braggart,” which isn’t how they want the world to think of them. This German village wants to be known for wine. Instead, it’s Trump — and ‘Drumpf.’ 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z "He stirred passions" as he was preparing to run for president in 1936," Dallek says. "He was a braggart and he had a lot of grandiosity and he had a lot of people following him. 2016 Takes the Cake for Negative Campaigns 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Some may be plumping for a profane braggart because they think him strong enough to guarantee their liberty, like some latter-day Persian king. No, not one 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z A likable braggart, a tolerable know-it-all, charming and aggressive, he is the Unquiet American abroad, and is brought to life on the page in vivid gusts of narration and soliloquy. Imagining Haiti’s Inner Life 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z He often elaborates teaching points by mentioning the “big three B’s” — the biggest baddest braggarts. New York Today: Training to Be Trump 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z There were the taciturn ones, the braggarts and the loose cannons. Oregon stand-off: Four militants remain at wildlife refuge - BBC News 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z At the very least, he’s an interesting loudmouth, by all close accounts that rare specimen, the tender and personable bully, a macho braggart who also admits to being terribly fragile beneath the bluster. Tyson Fury: the boxer who picked a fight with the world 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The hotel that is being built up there is like a loud, boastful, braggart bullying everything that comes into its view,” she said. Edinburgh’s world heritage status in peril as developers move in 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Be honest, is there a finer braggart and better coach in the world? Choosing a soccer club based on your college football team – a primer 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Talk to New Hampshire Republicans and the conversations eventually turn to Trump, the billionaire braggart who is atop national and local polls. Fear, Loathing and Disbelief as Donald Trump Looms Large Over New Hampshire 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z But others viewed Gul as an increasingly out-of-touch braggart later in life, as he appeared on countless Pakistani television programs warning of dark conspiracies and demanding his country militarily confront its nuclear-armed neighbor India. Hamid Gul, a Pakistan spy master tied to militants, dies 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Two kinds did this: the unwise ones, and the braggarts. Verge Fiction: Model Organisms 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z If you choose this route, you don't want to pose as a braggart. 4 Ways to Answer 'Why Should We Hire You?' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z And part of that plan involved Mayweather's transitioning from a trash-talking braggart into a soft-spoken -- well, softer, anyway -- elder statesmen of boxing. Floyd Mayweather Jr. says record payday will provide too much to spend 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z How do you bring the subject up without seeming like a braggart, a coldhearted miser, or someone looking for a meal ticket? How To Bare Your Finances To Your New Love 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Like Muhammad Ali, to whom he was sometimes compared, he was a joyous braggart who promoted his great gifts and then proved he had them. Marvin Barnes, Enigmatic Basketball Player, Dies at 62 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z According to a CIA damage assessment partially declassified in 2012, Pollard was an unstable braggart whose competence as an intelligence analyst was allowed by his employers to override repeated concerns about his trustworthiness and stability. Pollard waives parole hearing as Middle East peace talks stumble 2014-04-01T23:36:00Z Mr. Gupta’s lawyers, portraying Mr. Rajaratnam as a braggart, argued that the tapes amounted to “the self-serving hearsay of a known fabulist.” DealBook: Court Rejects Rajat Gupta’s Appeal 2014-03-25T18:35:29Z Personalised plates are regularly used in films and television series to hint that a character is a braggart or an egomaniac or just a bit desperate for attention. Why do people still buy personalised number plates? 2013-05-05T23:30:16Z It's one thing to be unpretentious, but it's another thing to aim low out of fear of looking like a braggart. 5 Things I Wish I Had Known as a Girl 2013-04-19T13:48:00Z Gonzalez said the only reason for his name to appear in Bosch’s records would be his braggart father dad. Gio Gonzalez says he’s ‘never taken performance-enhancing drugs,’ expresses excitement for 2013 MLB season 2013-02-13T01:23:18Z In the infantry-bred world of Army Special Operations, the authors write, “No one wants to hear braggarts telling tall tales of their heroics,” while “a culture of boasting and arrogance continues to haunt the SEALs.” Bin Laden Book’s Navy Author Was Slighted, Account Says 2012-09-03T00:47:27Z Networking tends to bring out the braggarts, the people for whom everything is going just great: stellar sales, smooth cash flow, and growth potential to last a lifetime. Hate Networking? 3 Ways to Get Over It 2012-08-30T14:54:58Z Yet Muhammad is no braggart – and he remembers how, as a small boy, he was besieged with nerves. London 2012: Lutalo Muhammad hungry for taekwondo Olympic gold 2012-08-09T10:30:21Z In response, Mr. Gupta’s lawyer sought to depict the Rajaratnam brothers and other Galleon employees as braggarts who lied about having inside sources to impress their colleagues. DealBook: At Gupta Trial, Seeking to Discredit Galleon Traders 2012-05-30T19:05:32Z A braggart is ever the first to fall, and nobody sympathizes with him. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z They call Horace Vernet a braggart, 118 and yet he is very different from these miserable creatures, whose conduct makes me cordially despise them. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Thus Cronje failed, not through any fault of his, but because the idle braggarts who form his army have not the spirit of whipped curs. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z Peg heard of the boast and was foolish enough to run to the devoted Macklin with the story, entreating him to punish the braggart. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z One might have thought that there never was a Frederick the Great or an Archduke Charles; that the only part ever played in history by Germans was that of impotent braggarts and stupid cowards. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z I answered, settling my cap on my head with perhaps a boyish touch of the braggart. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z A braggart word employed by fools and poets who have not lived. Six One-Act Plays 2012-03-26T02:00:36.910Z O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But he was only a braggart, and that which must have embittered many, tamed him. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Wolley, always a braggart, swaggered and talked, closed his eyes to his commitments and remembered only his gains. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z And I only hope that the laddies here will not run a foul of the braggart while they are in the bush.” Phil Bradley's Snow-shoe Trail The Mountain Boys in the Canada Wilds 2012-02-27T03:00:13.497Z Always the contrasted characters are on the stage together; simple dignity is followed by strutting pomposity, and after the hero the braggart swaggers and storms. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z The parasites--braggart samurai, turbulent officers and soldiers, and truculent hangers-on--were quick to perceive a change with which they sympathised, and prompt to act upon it. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z I'd take them any day over the kind of insular braggarts who appear so outwardly unbreakable and confident, but who, like G4, manage to reach adulthood still timidly defining themselves by those who spawned them. Time for these boy-men to cut the apron strings 2012-02-12T00:07:10Z The poet shall create or kill, Bid heroes live, bid braggarts die. Songs of the Mexican Seas 2012-02-06T03:00:16.913Z The braggart had received the chastisement he deserved! The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Ibrahim, in addition, was a coward in the country districts, though the best of braggarts at Tangier. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z And so he half dragged, half pushed, the two cowardly braggarts toward the Witch's door. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z "If any person says he's going to speak on their behalf, he's little more than a braggart and an aphorist at this point, including me." Russia: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted and Facebooked and YouTubed 2012-01-15T05:20:00Z We all know that one of the 7 deadly sins is pride, and we all hate a braggart. 9 Tips from the trenches: Wisdom from Job Seekers and Job Keepers 2012-01-09T17:25:23Z His aspect is doubtless frightful to some small birds, but most of them recognize in him much of the Pistolian braggart. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Now the braggart weeds have spread Through the paths she loved to tread, And the creeping moss has grown O'er yon shattered dial-stone. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Stanley, planning, controlling and directing every movement, is a power; Stanley under the direction of a swaggering, braggart African negro general, is nobody. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent 2011-12-24T03:07:57.647Z At the same time the Emperor himself acted the part of a bully and braggart towards a weak and feeble old man. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Thus Saint Francis de Sales was wont to say: “Our self-love is a great braggart, that wishes to undertake everything and accomplishes nothing.” Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears 2011-12-22T03:00:27.660Z You have disgraced me; made me out for a braggart that provokes a fight and then shirks it by screening myself behind the law. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z He is the most colossal coward and braggart of the comic stage. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z It will not be saving Cate and the rest from ruin and beggary, through this braggart brother of mine and his bridge,' burst from ungovernable Rhys. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Since they had driven him to it, he would be a bully and a braggart long enough for them to respect him and allow him to live peacefully ever afterward. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z She was a type of womanhood who enjoys a heroic pose,—a type that is unconsciously responsible for the braggart and the egotist. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z He and others would only think I was keeping up the braggart conduct of that evening at the club. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant. Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs 2011-11-24T03:00:41.267Z This man seems to have been an ignorant, untruthful braggart, who contradicted himself in many important particulars. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z His worst moment: Sounded more braggart than expert when describing his Senate work on health care and housing. GOP Debate: Grading the Michigan Mash-Up 2011-11-10T04:50:38Z When I remember the time-honoured theory that a writing person is no good for anything else, I feel obliged, at the risk of appearing a braggart, to parade the above fact. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z "The blood of that young braggart be on his own head," said Mullane to his henchmen. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Yet these Popish braggarts, but wretched slaves, call you cowards, and your fathers pirates. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Always immaculately dressed and booted and gloved, he was a dullard in studies, a braggart in everything, and a success in nothing. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z He was a noisy braggart, who might be heard wherever he went, shouting out in his broken English about himself and his belongings, and bragging about his shooting and riding, his horses, dogs, and guns. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z There can now be no doubt left," the peasant said to himself, "my daughter, so chaste and so pious until this day, has suddenly gone crazy over this braggart; she is weeping over his departure. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z But I fear this, which the braggarts at the Diet in Warsaw will not believe, but which we on the borders expect every hour,—namely, a great war with the whole power of Turkey. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z I think so, Nie, lad; only the reckless, and the braggart, and too often the coward, boast of the dangers they have come through, just as if their own strength alone had saved them.” O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas 2011-09-08T02:00:19.987Z "You, like most people from Arkansas, are both jealous and afraid of anybody from Texas," one braggart opined. The problem is Texanism -- not Texans 2011-08-25T00:30:00Z The carelessly-applied term of 'atheist' is to my thinking a name fit only for some pitiable braggart. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z As to being a braggart, Master Gaoler, I have told you nought but the truth. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z Karma is currently on Williams’s side – but karma doesn’t like a braggart. Steve Williams needs to let go of the Tiger Woods drama and get back to caddying 2011-08-10T15:37:53Z There is a braggart soldier, of whom he speaks— There is some vinegar and a wine-cooler, Thinner than thinnest gauze. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z This struggle—not his own special fight, for he is too simple and modest a man to play the part of Plautus’s braggart captain—he recorded in his work, Where Three Empires Meet. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z I am not telling this in any spirit of the braggart but as a sample of confidence. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z We are not a nation of braggarts, as thee thinks. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z To look at him, you would have deemed him a powerful foe to be reckoned with, but he was a very coward at heart, like the braggart that he was. The Strange Story of Rab R?by 2011-07-17T02:00:30.943Z Queen!" he said, in a deep, warlike voice, "you called the man a crazy braggart who denounced King Erik at the Thing of Viborg. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "For the Lord's sake! let us not play the braggart, excellent Sir Brock!" said Pall�, rather in alarm, and drawing his bridle. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z I have my eye also on that braggart Rostocker; he brings false coin into the country, and hath threatened the king. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z Once more, sir; for the last time: If you have honor, if you are not a poltroon as well as a braggart and a boaster, draw and defend yourself.” Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Calmly eyeing the braggart and the muttering group behind him, the storekeeper lighted his pipe and repeated his order to quit. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z "See how the young braggart struts and swells!" whispered Sir Abildgaard: "he has learnt betimes to play the knight and king." The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z If he is not a juggler or braggart, I fear he is something worse. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z Its braggart attitude may be fittingly symbolized by Rostand's "Chanticler," standing in the barnyard, flapping its wings in vain exultation, imagining that it, by its crowing, has caused the sun to rise. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But of all the braggarts in theatrical history, Bulwer’s Richelieu is the most vainglorious and the most intolerable. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Will the metropolitan airs which she assumed and flaunted before the eyes of envious rivals degenerate into the abject cringing of the vanquished and crest fallen braggart? The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z If thy account be true--and I do not take thee for a braggart--thou art a smart youth--the affair of the robbers was no jesting matter. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Just because the former braggart learned humility on Route 66 didn't mean he had to be a martyr. Two for the Road 2011-06-23T09:50:00Z Thus day and night the heroic words of David, wherewith he challenged the braggart giant, Goliath of Gath, kept their place in my thoughts. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The new leader of the Fiesta Bowl says he will be the "chief braggart" for the event's positive aspects as he leads the rehabilitation of one of the premier games in college football. Shelton vows to be strong leader of Fiesta revival 2011-06-14T23:58:08Z He was still at the mercy of this conceited braggart and the invisible power behind him—whoever or whatever it might be. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z He called his client a “braggart” and said Zvi Goffer liked to exaggerate what he knew. Goffer Passed Tips to Impress Rajaratnam, Prosecutor Says 2011-05-18T19:50:16Z In any case but the present, when thy future is at stake, 'twould have been a braggart's ruse. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Scrambling over moor and bog hither was bad enough, but parleying with quarrelsome thanes and with vulgar braggart churls such as these, I would not endure with a kingdom thrown into the bargain. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z It took the Council almost a month to recognise that this pithless braggart was only a disappointed officer of the standing army, his airs of an innovator notwithstanding. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The general was as huge a braggart as ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Surely you will be glad to strike a blow at these braggart Prussians! The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z If he refused to smoke, as he surely would if he had not spoken true things, every one knew that he was a braggart and a liar. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z Now thou dost presume to imitate the conduct of the braggart Hereward, and must needs collect an army for thy own personal advantage, and not for the glory of thy Prince. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The following day Ducrot declared we must retreat, and, "before Paris, before the whole nation," this dishonoured braggart sounded the retreat. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z He looked at the three men to see if his braggart's act succeeded. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z By the way, what a series might be made of M'Caskey's advices for the war: insolent braggart notices of what was and what ought to have been done, &c. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z "You braggart!" said the Bailiff, getting up; "I shall go home, and you can go and catch your Frenchman by yourself." In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z Take heart, lady; some means will assuredly be devised for circumventing the purposes of this unscrupulous braggart, Vigneau. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z The masses, deceived by a braggart and corrupt press, might ignore the danger, lull themselves with vain hopes; but the deputies have, must have, their hands full of crushing truths. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z “Because you are a braggart and nothing else,” retorted Leo, stung by the insolent acrobat’s manner. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z Accordingly, the braggart Captain, though he has at length disappeared, was one of the most notorious personages on the early Italian, French, and English stage. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "There's my hand," cried the Bailiff; "just to show you that you are nothing but a boasting braggart." In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z He was a good specimen of the Andalusian braggart. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z He insists that, although those cracking such jokes may be children in the playground or saloon-bar braggarts advertising their cynicism, making light of terrible events can be an entirely understandable coping strategy. Why do people tell sick jokes? 2011-03-18T11:31:38Z Then, waken from thy nerveless sleep, Gird on thy well-tried armor, And soon the braggart North will feel That Right has strength to harm her. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z The braggart captains of the old English theatre have much greater merit than the utterers of these nonsensical rhapsodies of the French stage. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z I confess my Polish sympathies were strong, and I did not approve of ridiculing the "braggart Sarmatian's" nation by way of disgusting him with Komaritz; but nothing that I could say had any effect. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The third day was no more favourable to the braggart, for a strange knight appeared within the lists, who bore all others down, and won the honours of the tournament. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z How little did this flippant young braggart and this coarse-grained bully understand the subtle workings of that same adventurer's brain! Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z As for the “braggart” Gratiano and the remaining Christians, we tolerate them because they love Antonio, the man who of all others most deserves our respect. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The braggarts, indeed, of modern dramatists, have been universally represented as cowardly, from Spampana down to Captain Flash. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z We were just rising from table when the "braggart Sarmatian" entered, booted and spurred, smelling of all the perfumes of Arabia, and with his hair beautifully curled. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Mart Walters was a fop and a braggart. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z And the braggart began to hold forth in praise of Germany. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Possibly, likewise, he may have been desperate; fully aware that he was about to cast the dice for a last stake, he may have been at once braggart and timid. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z Jodelet himself, the valet of Don Felix, seems intended as a burlesque or caricature of all the braggarts who had preceded him. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "And do you know what you are?" he shouts; "an affected braggart--that's what you are." 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z So then he would be looked upon as a braggart, a rogue, an obscure blackguard, who had introduced himself to them in the expectation of making some profit out of it! Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Here, no vain braggart youths molested the wives of the staid burghers. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z The fact that any part of the country could produce its quota of asinine braggarts was not necessarily a reflection on the country. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z Ostentatiously grooming his mustache and eyebrows while peering into a hand-held mirror, he is the ultimate braggart and prevaricator, itching for a comeuppance. | New Jersey: Chicanery Abounds in a New ?All?s Well? 2010-09-25T00:31:00Z This foolish vaunt cost the braggart his life. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies How pithily, too, the braggart is brought before us in the saying, "If they had not dragged me from underneath him I should have killed him!" Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources "And what wad ye say if ye had your will, ye braggart knave?" cried the knight. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 The braggadocio of their fighting songs would do credit to Falstaff; but the Maori affords us the anomaly of a braggart who is not by any means a coward. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands While they were boastful and claimed to be invincible, unlike most braggarts, they were undeniably brave. The Story of Malta No longer I mount on a passionate flood— Something has changed my arrogant spirit, Something has left my braggart blood. Challenge I am come back, a foot-worn runaway, Like any braggart boy. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors I had proved no worshipful dominie as he had hoped, but a quarreller and a braggart, that imagined he knew everything. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim The whole affair ended in nothing more serious than the hot words and laughter, for Sarennes, though a braggart, was not evil-tempered, at least towards me. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec "Come, come, let us not play the braggart; I know everything." Marguerite de Valois Nevertheless when a man boasted in his presence of the favours of a woman, he thought him a fool and a braggart—and was in general nowise backward in telling him so. The Firebrand "I think," she said deliberately, "that Dora was a braggart, and that Mrs Dewlop was a sneak, and—er—not very wise, and that you——" "Do you also think me a satyr?" The New Gulliver and Other Stories Copley was braggart and bully to his finger-tips—a man without heart, or conscience, or feeling. Hard Pressed The cornfield was bounded by a fence, and the burly braggart had just succeeded in reaching it when his enemy overtook him. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency The braggart wears his right on his ear. Rambles in Womanland He was not a mere braggart, whose words found no correspondence in his deeds. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II It is really extraordinary how gardening turns decent, God-fearing men into braggarts. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Well, there came a certain braggart out of this foul poison-box. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion "He is a monstrous braggart; is he not, Mildred?" said Lindsay, directing a look of incredulity at his daughter. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency I remember the English Leicester and his crowd, men of loose morals and doubtful piety; braggarts and roisterers we all thought them. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel One must bear in mind, that those who have the true modern spirit need not modernise, just as those who are truly brave are not braggarts. The Spirit of Japan Mylio—"He is also somewhat of a fibber, a roysterer, not over bold, considerable of a libertine and a braggart—that is his portrait from the side of his morals!" The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades This taunting and braggart speech was made in the face of the conciliatory bill of the venerable Chatham, devised with a view to redress the wrongs of America. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools "Who knows?" replied Mr. Fogg, entering the car as coolly as ever, and commenced to reassure Mrs. Aouda, by telling her that braggarts need never be feared. Round the World in Eighty Days Separated from his father, overcome by the hopeless terror of childhood, he had lost his braggart airs, and appeared just a pitiful baby thing, longing to be kissed and held. An Unknown Lover Would this braggart, they thought, turn coward, and endeavour at the last moment to save his life? The Induna's Wife Then, Nkose, I felt that I had spoken like a liar and a braggart. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Why is the humiliated braggart like the small boy who has drunk the washing fluid? The Handbook of Conundrums He was, in short, a braggart, a liar, a flatterer, and a spy, who served two rogues roguishly and was fittingly rewarded by the scorn of honest men. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History After one year of debauch and degradation, he returns home as a braggart, and the old and the new generation of peasants are contrasted. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) This lady is moreover an ambitious and designing person, who leads her threadbare braggart of a brother quite by the nose. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. The best of you, and I don't want braggarts and second-raters, but the best! The Buttoned Sky On our way home, we stopped for dinner at the garrison town, where we heard the most contemptuous allusions to the "Prussian braggarts," as they were termed. Waldfried A Novel Almost, braggart, I am inclined to give you your life so that you may spend the rest of it in shame. Black Man's Burden Jourde was by no means a fool or a braggart; he was a very good administrator, and exceedingly conscientious. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections He soundly whips the braggart beggar Irus, and the story of his presence is noised throughout the house. Greek Women Only worthless fellows could be engaged, which explains in part why these empty braggarts so often failed Mr. Hunt. The Story of the Trapper We used to think the Prussians were braggarts; but now we found no trace of boastfulness, and in spite of their constant victories, they took every precaution as they advanced, and were prepared for defeat. Waldfried A Novel Windbag or not—braggart or no—he has an iron will. The Beasts in the Void But while the Frenchman—for C�cilia was a Frenchman notwithstanding his Italian name—was modest though critical, the Pole was a braggart, though by no means devoid of courage. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections I said, with perhaps more of the braggart than I care now to think on. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway Search will be made for him; the braggart Sherdil, who shares his hut, will raise a cry when he is missed. Barclay of the Guides And with this he emptied the last goblet and drained it, while Netz bit his lips, and drawing Bieler aside, asked in a whisper, "If they should not throw the braggart out of window?" Specimens of German Romance Vol. I. The Patricians The churlish silence of the fo'castle was met by the braggart autocracy of the officers. The Portal of Dreams I will not be bearded thus by an insolent, braggart boy. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion In the blackness of that Tinker’s Pot behind the looming fissure, were there other things–other things besides a boy, a broken braggart of a boy? Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl It was one of his own race whom this braggart menial had killed. Barclay of the Guides Coaly, three days ago, had been an inconsequential pup; but now he looked up into my eyes with the calm dignity that no fool or braggart can assume. Our Southern Highlanders What became of the defeated braggart history fails to state. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality "You must be careful from this out, Amos, or that braggart will make good his threat." Under the Liberty Tree A Story of The 'Boston Massacre' The braggarts of science Would weigh and divide me; Their wisdom evading, I vanish and hide me. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy He was a useful braggart, idle, familiar, and discreet; and he had acquired the dialect of the country with surprising ease. Mary Magdalen Any chance adventurer or braggart arrogantly claims the right to cloak with the name of the people the follies of his murderous rhetoric or the sordid interests he wishes to satisfy. The Forerunners Ould as agent.—Pope, the braggart, comes upon the stage.—Meets a braggart’s fate.—The war transferred to Northern Virginia. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Intellectual braggart, this Hamlet resides after his father Horwendill's "irregular decease" in a tower hard by the Sound, from which Helsingborg may be seen. Ivory Apes and Peacocks In the subplot, or minor story, the play is notable for the burlesquing of two types of character—a pompous pedantic schoolmaster, and a braggart who always speaks in high-flown metaphor. An Introduction to Shakespeare He further demanded what reception the schoolyard braggart would have given such sagacious counsel. The Land of Look Behind I do not believe that when the war is over, when all the soldiers have returned home, they will so readily submit to being put in their places by these braggarts of the rear. The Forerunners He is simply a braggart, and will meet a braggart’s fate. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital It is quite original, this mode of getting rid of an unworthy opponent, rising to heights where the braggart is dazed and bewildered and loses his reckoning! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 He is the most insufferable little braggart that ever lived. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars When I see a man, come to years of wisdom, who speaks in double-meanings and is the braggart of his vices, I spit on the other side. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) “There, then, is my thumb, young braggart,” exclaimed Sir Gideon, “that I winna hinder ye in your choice; for to-morrow ye shall be exalted as Haman was; and let those revenge your death who dare.” Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative Ould as agent.—Pope, the braggart, comes upon the stage.—Meets a braggart’s fate.—The war transferred to Northern Virginia. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital On ruined and blackened walls, in more than one quarter, could be read subsequently the ominous words, written by no idle braggarts: "Vengeance de Rapin!" History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 He was no blundering, egobefuddled braggart riding for a fall; he was a splendid pilot, a careful tactician, fearless when fearlessness was needed and cautious when caution would bring greater reward than blind valor. Aces Up "Come, my good Lion, let us dispatch this braggart and saucy monster." The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island None, save a few drunken braggarts who found their way hither, and would have battered in the door. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts Thou of the starry wing, that canst not soar, Confuséd power, still seeking, still unblest; For ever clutching to a braggart breast The hope portentous and the worldling's lore. Ioläus The man that was a ghost But the Huguenot generals evidently imagined that there was nothing in the speech beyond the prating of a silly braggart. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 In his cups he was a witty, though arrogant, braggart. Carmen Ariza Blustering, domineering—pretty much of a braggart, you know. The Passing of Ku Sui On one side, we see any braggart terrify a multitude; and on the other, some face dangers and death with unmoved spirit. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century My father called out to them: "A good lesson that for our braggarts and blusterers!" Pepita Ximenez It simply showed that he was not a braggart; that he was different from other men!” Officer 666 But he was a braggart; I liked him not, and would not stay to speak with him.' The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court And a caviller might perhaps go farther, and ask the significant question, Are we not known all over the world as a race of arrant braggarts? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It is the fitting dress, among them, for princes and braggarts. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Else they are in danger of being proved mere braggarts. The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays Many of them, however, in cooler moments, spoke of the traitor and the braggart with the contempt and disgust he merited. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 Russia, an ignorant nation, whose ruling class is composed of men without morals and without ideals—thieves and drunkards and vain braggarts. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue And, though Tresler could not distinguish a word, his talk was braggart, domineering, and there was a strong flavor of drink in its composition. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that threatened to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the boasting errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's audacity. The Story of Don Quixote It is not that, even in the most distant time, braggarts and impostors have been wanting who falsely boasted of what they could not perform. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Nashville is full of such braggarts as he is. Marcy The Blockade Runner The blustering braggart does not often prove to be a hero in time of danger, and the gentle, unassuming woman is the type of which heroines are frequently made. Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines I smiled my sweetest, and the King looked disapprovingly at the braggarts. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Those braggarts who thirsted for blood have experienced the noble generosity of their brave conquerors. Pius IX. And His Time But Payton, though English, was the younger, the handsomer, the better born, and, in his braggart fashion, the better bred. The Wild Geese Important, swaggering, and braggart, they assumed the airs of an aristocracy, as of men set apart and elevated by success. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The new corn-stacks were big and golden as they went by, an army of white geese marched aside in braggart protest. The Rainbow Nat was a great bully and braggart, and many of them had suffered insult at his hands. Robin Hood None but the brave deserve the fair; Some braggarts are cowards. Symbolic Logic There may be other warnings as well, for the army contains many braggarts. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia "Your order shall be obeyed," replied Captain Lewis, although he looked with contempt upon the braggart whom he addressed. From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services He was fantastic, self-indulgent, wastrel, braggart, what you will; but he had an exaggerated notion of the value of every human soul save his own. The Belovéd Vagabond If, as is just conceivable, the Teuton braggart fails to convert the universe into a German empire, his downfall will be partly due to his lack of humour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 4, 1914 Univ. “persons”; m = brave; x = deserving of the fair; y = braggarts. Symbolic Logic A pack of braggarts over a little skirmish. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia She was capable, wit and social strategist that she was, of assuming all this interest by way of leading an inept youth to make a fool and 137 a braggart of himself for her amusement. The Readjustment Rodney Gray was not as much of a braggart as Rosser was, but if he had tried to carry his threat into execution he might have been as badly whipped. True To His Colors I can hardly fail to lick such a braggart as that. By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson None but the brave deserve the fair; Some braggarts are cowards. Symbolic Logic As here represented, Cæsar appears little better than a braggart; and when he speaks, it is in the style of a glorious vapourer, full of lofty airs and mock thunder. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar He knew that Jasper was something of a braggart and a bully. The Tale of Jolly Robin Why did you not go to the front yourself long ago, you noisy braggart? True To His Colors I am no braggart; I wished by my own merits to win your regard, even though I might have to wait long for it. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 This braggart thought was scarcely formed, ere he rode upon one of his own pitfalls, and immediately disappeared. Mediaeval Tales At first they laughed at him, called him a little liar, a braggart, but that only egged him on. The Brothers Karamazov “You play the valiant braggart to a captive,” he commented, quietly. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel O, I could play the woman with mine eyes And braggart with my tongue. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Now I know you for the man you are, braggart and liar! The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts Away with the braggart!” the Laconians were clamouring. A Victor of Salamis Ah! hard as adamant, a braggart Czar Arms vassal-swarms, and fans a fatal war! Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Nor was there anything necessarily braggart in this attitude of theirs. Change in the Village It is a noble braggart madness, this glorification of a cheap art by an old actor. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Sullen and surly, he felt no regret that Tubbs, braggart and fool though he was, was dead. 'Me--Smith' Daniel stood by, with arms akimbo, his booted legs braggartly straddled and his freckled face primed with an intolerant grin at our recent efforts. Desert Dust For he was an idle braggart, and where he was disorder grew, and that was a pity, since the Queen had made the Court orderly, and servants were little beaten. The Fifth Queen Crowned And the black braggart laughed as sincerely as if he were for the moment self-deceived into thinking that he was dealing in facts. Burl There was nothing of the braggart in the man; he 156 recounted his tales after the manner of a boy relating some college escapades, deprecatingly. The Pagan Madonna "Back yourself, you braggart!" cries Siegfried, nothing deterred; "up there where the flames flicker, I must hasten to Brünnhilde!" The Wagnerian Romances Many of our poets have written botanical verses, and braggart verses, many more have described faithfully the appearance of parts of the land at different seasons. William Shakespeare The invasion of Can Mallorqu� by the braggart and enamored young blades he took as an insult. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan And without scalps to show for proof, let him but dare blow his own trumpet, and he should be blazed throughout the land as a windy, lying braggart. Burl “Here,” said young Lafitte to his Captain, “is where I leave you, for you are a bully, a braggart, and a knave.” Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure They whose eyes the Night has consecrated laugh to scorn Day's idle splendour, his braggart brilliancy. The Wagnerian Romances Thou prince of all babbling braggarts!" cried Conrad, when the story was ended: "Can't you open your mouth, man, without lying? and yet you are already come to years. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck It is quite original, this mode of getting rid of an unworthy opponent,—rising to heights where the braggart is dazed and bewildered and loses his reckoning! Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs Here is a smart fellow, you may say, who sets up a paradox—a conceited braggart who professes a difference to mankind. Chimney-Pot Papers In Grundtvig he is merely a contemptible braggart, ‘with his nose high in air,’ who will not allow himself to be ‘thrown to the rubbish heap.’ The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography From a blustering braggart, he became a pale and cringing coward. Patty's Social Season In brief, it is a braggart city of medieval courage and medieval cruelty, combining the fierceness of an Italian republic with a perfect faith in mechanical contrivance and an ardent love of material progress. American Sketches 1908 Even his face, gestures, and manner of speaking reminded her of a certain notorious braggart living in the vicinity of Bukowiec. The Comedienne The hen who laid the golden egg—for it could be none other than she who worked the miracle at Mory's—must have clucked like a braggart when the smoking dish came in. Chimney-Pot Papers Of course, no one who heard regarded these things, save as the bombast of a half drunken braggart and liar. The Diamond Coterie They can be cool and brave in battle, and not be braggarts in the absence of danger. Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 He knows that the excellent work done in tranquil seclusion by men of letters and scholars will outlast the braggart achievements of well-advertised millionaires and "prominent" citizens. American Sketches 1908 Now, braggarts, see how long ye can bear it. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The braggart, prompt his flight to take, Cried, "Jove, O grant a safe retreat!" A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine There be more fools than farthingales, and more braggarts than beards, in this good land of ours. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 I shall teach those two braggarts not to talk so loud of their affairs. The Tiger Hunter He makes his great braggart, Cour de Lion, fling a Magyar over his head. The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' His uncle twitted him as a braggart ashore who sang a different tune afloat. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Even so, he wouldn't have bothered to come if it had not been for the fact that Viron Belgezad was a pompous braggart. Heist Job on Thizar Thus he became an easy prey to the hordes of idlers and braggarts with whom he associated. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Pursued by his braggart whistlings and the hoarse echoings of his mirth, Black Shadow left him and hurried back to the Wizard’s Cave to make known to him the success of her mission. The Shadow Witch He sat rebuked in this man’s presence—this man whom, within the hour, he had called boaster and braggart, liar and coward. Allison Bain, or, By a Way she knew not The knaves have humored me, hearing the tale of the pirate I knocked on the head and my braggart remark to Blackbeard. Blackbeard: Buccaneer The sight of a soldier annoyed him, for he saw a conqueror, trampling vaingloriously through the capital of his country, and the inability of his land to eject the braggart astonished and mortified him. Mary, Mary You are a boisterous braggart, and you scream like the east wind. The God of Love He was regarded as the typical fire-eater and braggart. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement When we are young, that braggart breast is a great swell; but, in the end, we can only rely on our back. The Cycle of Spring It is possible to make war popular and the braggart tone of the Americans had doubtless contributed considerably to its popularity with the Canadians. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 There was evidently something peculiar about his face; he was undoubtedly witty and worldly-wise, a braggart, a sycophant, and somewhat of a buffoon. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 One day he got into a fight at a tavern with a noisy braggart. Historic Boyhoods He was a braggart, but none the less a killer. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado We know you for the lying braggart that you are. The Man from the Bitter Roots Impatient, boiling o'er with wrath, The bard his answer waits at home, But lo! his braggart neighbour hath Triumphant with the answer come. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Both of these characters are represented as braggart soldiers and also as linguists, which evidently reflect Florio's quasi-military connection with Southampton and his known proficiency in languages. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 He was represented as a cowardly braggart dressed in black. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) You have listened to the lies of that braggart, Thode, and condemned me unheard! The Fifth Ace She pitied him, no doubt, because, she was kind, but in her heart he felt she must despise him for a weakling—a braggart who could not make good his boasts. The Man from the Bitter Roots He may turn out the least of a braggart of all, having a better right to be confident. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 But while it's a terrible braggart, it's really cowardly an' delicate, an' will die of lock-jaw if you only pick its thumb. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The scene in which the pedantic but patriotic Welshman, Fluellen, avenges the sneers of the braggart Pistol at his nation’s emblem, by p. 174forcing him to eat the leek, overflows in vivacious humour. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Many, said this philosopher, recoil from a man of skill even, if he is a braggart. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery There was more in it to him than the withholding of credit which belonged to an obscure old man, or the self-aggrandizement of a pompous braggart. The Man from the Bitter Roots But there were things other than politics discussed at the country store, and Abe Lincoln often raised a laugh at the expense of some braggart or bully. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln Lee had already been introduced as a sycophant and braggart into the edition of 1519, and when the quarrel was assuaged, in 1522, the reference was expunged. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Apollo must let me drive his steeds, else I am for evermore branded braggart and liar, and shamed amongst men.” A Book of Myths To sober second thought, the sole reason for his advancement might seem his wonderful power as a braggart. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death Not that I believe in the braggart and blowhard, but a chap must have nerve to put himself ahead if he wants to keep in the game. Frank Merriwell's Bravery Forsooth, thou boastful braggart and mouthing hero, thou wilt not dare to deny it!' King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls As a boy he already violently disliked mendacious boys, such as the little braggart of whom he tells in the Colloquies. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation “Surely thou wouldst not have son of thine proved liar and braggart?” A Book of Myths We believed them braggarts and bullies, and that was all. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 "Tenderfeet are not all braggarts, any more than Westerners are all brave men." Frank Merriwell's Bravery How he ever came to be the father of such a blasphemous braggart”—Daddy sank into reverie. Danger! and Other Stories Polygamy stands in Utah and in other of the territories to-day more entrenched, and more brazen, and more puissant, and more braggart, and more infernal, than at any time in its history. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony A fool, a braggart, a liar the less, but still he must leave a vacancy at the hearth! John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Their walk on the street was a reckless swagger; and a listener who could understand French could catch in their loud conversation many a scornful sneer or braggart defiance of the Americans. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 Certain fixed types of character play the parts of gulls or gullers, as the old parents, the young lovers, the parasite, the braggart soldier, and the clever slave. The Facts About Shakespeare She only, of all the people in Sevier, saw beneath the drunken braggart a man who had been sorely worsted, and that perhaps not fairly, in the long fight. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 This time she sang some songs of her father's, odd airs from English camp-fires, braggart of word, or with the melodious longings of men abroad from the familiar country, the early friend. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure I am merry and generous, and slow to offence, an unmeasured braggart, careless about money matters, without dignity, but the soul of honour. The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) When I told him, as I did, that he was a thick-skinned idiot and braggart, he looked amazed. In Direst Peril Young Snac, with his bride upon his arm, waves a braggart handkerchief at the oldster, and out walks papa, plants himself straight in front of the company, and brings all to a halt. Aunt Rachel "That modest, shrinking violet we hear of so often is a shrieking braggart alongside of our grand young crusader," he remarked. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles There were skulkers, there were braggarts, there were knaves and fools in Virginia as elsewhere, but by comparison they were not many, and theirs was not the voice that was heard to-day. The Long Roll Gorki's conception of life is expressed in the words of the engine-driver Nil, in "The Bezemenovs" … a sympathetic figure, even if he be something of a braggart. Maxim Gorki But, then, Brunow was a man about town, and a braggart at the same time, and I had attached no more importance to his talk than to the irresponsible babble of a baby. In Direst Peril No, braggart, I do not need your money! The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I And Wolfe, you know, was a braggart who made good. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles If you refuse to wrestle, I will brand you as a blower and a braggart—a fellow not fit to be accepted in the society of gentlemen. Frank Merriwell's Races Otherwise, how could he meet his lady?—why, she would think him a mere braggart. Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" True Blue instinctively discovered that he was a braggart and inclined to be a bully. True Blue Briefly, he is the best fool braggart under heaven. The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse If the truth were known, Joseph Bumble proved to be somewhat of a braggart. The Tale of Betsy Butterfly Tuck-Me-In Tales Since the British braggart began to embattle Gibraltar, having thieved it from Catholic Spain, a wind of desolation breathes over the whole country. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Most of the wonderful stories about the condor were propagated by the discoverers and conquerors of Spanish America; who, if they were great conquerors, were also the greatest braggarts the world ever saw. The Boy Hunters He makes his great braggart, Cœur de Lion, fling a Magyar over his head. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" His design was to lash the follies and vices of the day, and his dramatis persona consisted for the most part of gulls, impostors, fops, cowards, swaggering braggarts, and "Pauls men." Brief History of English and American Literature The men who had been the vainest braggarts, the loudest blusterers in favour of independence, were now the first to veer around or to slink away. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 Sometimes a noisy braggart from the country side would demand an audience; and sometimes an officer in his Majesty’s uniform would arrive as an honoured guest. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Scar´amouch, a braggart and fool, most valiant in words, but constantly being drubbed by Harlequin. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Otherwise, how could he meet his lady?—why, she would think him a mere braggart! Prince Prigio I have heard my father say that a braggart is generally a coward. The Kentucky Ranger Not the sincerity that calls itself sincere; ah, no, that is a very poor matter indeed;—a shallow braggart conscious sincerity; oftenest self-conceit mainly. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Terry picked up the spear and crossed the circle of savages to hand it to the largest and loudest savage in the group to which the braggart had belonged. Terry A Tale of the Hill People He is a great braggart, and especially fond of boasting of the mad pranks of his younger days. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The braggart now regretted having told so many lies, for he did not know how to escape the monarch's proposal. Roumanian Fairy Tales The Spaniards in all ages have been of swelling and braggart spirit, soaring in thought, and valiant though vainglorious in deed. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 "I go myself—I trick—I trap—I snare 'em——" "Hush to ye, ye braggart," interrupted the priest. Lords of the North A braggart, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, asserted that he had received his scars in battle. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings On January 29, 1841, Henry A. Wise uttered "a motley compound of eloquence and folly, of braggart impudence and childish vanity, of self-laudation and Virginian narrow-mindedness." John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series He's a blusterer—a braggart—a criminal, through and through! Rimrock Jones She had seen them since she came to England, sitting with their elders, gray-haired fathers who talked war, war, war, while the young tongues—once so easily braggart—remained speechless. Four Days The Story of a War Marriage His idle braggart words of a few moments before came home to him. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) An American braggart told Cooke that his family was amongst the oldest in Maryland. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Aye, but these braggarts yet shall learn Who'd hold the world in fee, The Sea is God's—and England, England shall keep it free. Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas Here used in contempt, like many other words with the suffix -ard, or -art, as braggart, sluggard, etc. Milton's Comus The American became a sort of braggart playboy of the western world, enormously sure of himself and ludicrously contemptuous of all other men. A Book of Prefaces And ‘Will the churls last out till we Have duly hardened bones and thews For scouring leagues of swamp and sea Of braggart mobs and corsair crews?’ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys None more surely than that of the braggart Crown Prince. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers The fellow might be a loud-mouthed braggart; none the less he would go the limit. Steve Yeager There is a surly malice of speech and manner among the working classes, that seems to indicate a wish to atone for political impotence, by braggart impudence to those whom they regard as superior. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View "Here is something that will convince you that I am speaking seriously, my young friend," went on the braggart, designating the bills before him. A Cardinal Sin He was no braggart with others; to his own wife he would boast a little. Winner Take All The braggart bulletins of the German Press Bureau have been valued at their true worth. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers He is the sworn foe of the bully or the braggart. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays McClellan did not hesitate to denounce Pope as an upstart and a braggart who had won his position by the lowest tricks of the demagogue. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis The ranks are broken, along the royal line They fly, the braggarts of the court! the bullies of the Rhine! The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book "Ha, ha! hear the braggarts!" shouted the guests. A Chinese Wonder Book She considered him a good deal of a braggart. The Tale of Henrietta Hen She dealt the braggart a blow across the nose and eyes with her closed fan. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Entellus, once our bravest, but in vain, Can'st thou sit tamely, with the field unfought, And see this braggart glory in his gain? The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Come," said the other, "do not play the braggart. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Macaulay, who was no braggart, has put it on record that his conception of history was more just than that of Hume, Robertson, Voltaire, and Gibbon. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Prince Sturdza, who was a noted braggart and brawler and an inveterate enemy of Austria-Hungary. In the World War But he was as great a coward as he was a braggart, and a fair fight was not to his taste. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Fearless, without a touch of the braggart, his courage was of the valiant order, the quality that accompanies a lofty soul in a strong body. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 “You are the greatest braggart in the Precinct,” said she. The Green Door The boys told darkly braggart stories about this pond. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel But, even as he went, Sholto's step slowed, and lost its braggart strut and confidence. The Black Douglas The bully's braggart manner and sneering voice made no impression on Vane. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Resting upon his evil record, this braggart had succeeded in terrorizing the garrison, and it was soon Brock's turn to be selected for insult. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 He was an insufferable braggart, but never had any success in love. The Evolution of Love But we can never be braggart about it. Foch the Man A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies But Ranier whispered to himself, "I want me this braggart hewn to pieces, and then the rest beaten;" and added, aloud: "Ax! ax! chop! chop! and work for my profit!" St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 The quiet boy is not required to play the part of the braggart. Public Speaking Whichever of these causes it was, could of course never be positively known, but, like a flash of lightning, the fellow changed his insolent, braggart manner to one of the most contemptible, cringing cowardice. Angel Agnes The Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport "You always were a braggart, I have heard; yet you will need all your wits to save your own head when arraigned before him." Beatrix of Clare Please don't suspect me, Major, of being a braggart. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam And he, the fool, had no share in this braggart heritage. The Half-Hearted Dexie looked up quickly, and caught his meaning, and as she crossed the room her thoughts were flying through her brain, trying to bring to mind some song that would answer those "red-coated braggarts." Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Even the coxcombs, self-duping knaves, simpletons, braggarts, and other evil or pitiful types whom he selects, are drawn with unstrained and simple conformity to reality. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues We set out braggartly in mirth, World's bravest men and tallest, To do the mightiest thing on earth, And here we're lying, nothing worth, Succumbent to the smallest! 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse People who at first played the braggart and threatened to root us out, suddenly became disgracefully cast down; we could walk in the town, holding up our heads, without fear henceforth of being insulted. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men And, furthermore, the struggle for us involves the very greatest things, either to be masters of all Libya or to be slaves to these braggarts. History of the Wars, Books III and IV The Vandalic War Ye fat braggart, an ye call me coward, I'll stab thee. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue! Familiar Quotations The men of maturer years, with very few exceptions, behaved like men, and in the hour of victory in many instances restrained the braggarts from committing cowardly acts. Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith Drink makes a man an empty braggart or a contented fool. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel At no time, however, was Ares a popular God in Greece; in Homer he is a braggart and coward. p. The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Not the sincerity that calls itself sincere; ah no, that is a very poor matter indeed; a shallow braggart, conscious sincerity, oftenest self-conceit mainly. The Art of Public Speaking She contrasted his manner—quiet, graceful, sure—with that of Vermilion, the very swing of whose pole proclaimed the vaunting, arrogant braggart. The Gun-Brand Not one taunting word was uttered in our hearing, not one braggart sentence passed their lips. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front "Keep quiet for the threat of that braggart?" the shrill-voiced woman demanded; "why, if I had a bodkin I'd spit him on it." The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia I am like my sword, loyal, frank, and honest; we scorn braggart's cunning, dark alleys, stealth; we look not at a man's back but into his face; we prefer sunshine to darkness. The Grey Cloak Or rather he is a mere braggart who wisheth to seize the property which I have collected by my prudence, and not an experienced warrior. The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians It was soon learned that Flapp was more of a braggart than anything else, and then even some of the smaller boys grew less afraid of him. The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island Everything was hushed and still; there was no sign of braggart triumph, no unseemly mirth, no swagger in the demeanour of the troops. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front As yet, notwithstanding the strutting and lying independence of a braggart philosophy, Nature maintains her rights, and great names have great prevalence. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion. The Grey Cloak "I would not enter into a pot-house brawl with a braggart boy," he cried. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality Blasphemer, braggart and coward all, Little you reck of the numbing ball, The blasting shell, or the "white arm's" fall, As they speed poor humans home. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 His rapid change of moods was fascinating, now the kindly philosopher, now the Teuton braggart, now the Hun incorporate. The Man with the Clubfoot Most of the braggarts have gradually disappeared from the scene, but the deeds of this hero were always in accordance with his words. On Commando I'm no braggart, I hope, but you Iroquois don't call me Great Bear for nothing. The Hunters of the Hills "Not yet, wife; 'tisn't always the braggart that turns out bravest in time of trial." Elsie's Womanhood Grandfather used to be fond of contrasting the camp-fire bully and braggart, as one extreme, with the soldier who was frankly afraid of getting killed, as the other. The Taming of Red Butte Western Isn't it a braggart pose, a desire to show the number of things you can buy? The House in Good Taste He is the exception to the rule that all braggarts are cowards. On Commando I am no dreamer and no braggart when I say that in the West I can play the Corsican. Lewis Rand By the side of the downcast braggarts of the Court and the unstrung screamers of the Parisian Press, his mien had something of the heroic. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) One day he was brought home dead, killed in a drunken quarrel with Captain O'Neill, a dissolute braggart, who had struck him over the temple with a stick. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill You run the risk of being judged a braggart and egotist when you talk up your good points; though you may be telling no more than the plain truth. Certain Success In our village such a braggart would goon have been put in his place. Twenty-six and One and Other Stories And the braggarts all in silence were bound. Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe |
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