If, on account of his assumed bluster and swagger, any one took him for a chap who would show the white feather in a pinch, that person was certain to be surprised and quite upset.
Dick's shoulder, all the bluster taken out of him in a second.
Certain bears charge without any bluster and perfectly straight; while others first threaten and bully, and even when charging stop to growl, shake the head and bite at a bush or knock holes in the ground with their fore-paws.
But a black bear is not usually a formidable opponent, and though he will sometimes charge home he is much more apt to bluster and bully than actually to come to close quarters.
In vain did Sebastiani bluster and cajole by turns.
Viennese suavity induced Bonaparte to take off his coat and show himself as he really was: while the conscientious bluster of Grenville and Pitt made the First Consul button up his coat, and pose as the buffeted peacemaker.
It had revolted from Rehoboam and his foolish bluster about whips and scorpions, and the consequence was a worse slavery.
Goliath's bluster is full of contempt of David and truculent self- confidence.
She had mistaken his revolutionarybluster for philosophic enlightenment; and, persuaded that he shared in her views, she rashly appealed to him for help.
Even in France the temperate counsels of the clergy were being overruled by the sentimental imprudences of the nobles and by the bluster of the politicians.
To secure the water on board was such an obvious measure that, bluster as he might, he couldn't miss coming to it finally.
I knew that he would bluster before the men, to save his face, and then climb down.
Mr. Bluster was a great Old Bailey barrister, about fifty years old, the leader constantly employed by Messrs.
He faithfully performed his agreement, with Steggars; for he retained both Bluster and Slang for him, and got up their briefs with care: but, alas!
And those fears forced his trembling pen to write the saving-clause which "qualifies" the Conclave's second-hand bluster preceding it.
In the same insulting diatribe, he said: "It is very easy for men to bluster who know there is going to be no danger.
The castle visions of glory mounted far out of reach, and his fickle ambition evaporated in a bluster of empty words-- "My people will weep at the carriage of such ponderous engines.
An almost equally short-sighted error on the part of hostile critics was the idea that the attitude of Ulster as exhibited at Craigavon and Balmoral should be represented as mere bluster and bluff, to which the only proper reply was contempt.
Cunning is the accomplishment of the selfish, and can only impose upon silly people, who take bluster for sense, gravity for prudence, effrontery for talent, and pride for dignity.
A man who has knocked about the world as I have doesn't bluster like a Pharisee and a brute, unless he is mad,--or angry.
If you cry and stamp and bluster it makes them vain, but when they've lost you outright they miss you.
Finally, driven to desperation, after waiting more than four hours, I tried a little bluster and insisted that I would go in and see somebody.
It had none of the deafening bluster of the cannonading so terrifying to new troops, but to those who had once experienced its effect, it was infinitely more to be dreaded.
This gave rise to an international issue and was the occasion of much bluster on both sides of the line that happily ended as bluster.
The calm of the Foreign Minister was as dangerous as the bluster of the Emperor.
How--he exclaimed to Lucchesini on the ambassador's departure--how could the King credit him with encouraging the intrigues of a fussy ambassador at Cassel or the bluster of Murat?
The sensible Tories admit it to have been a great blunder, but the authors of the folly affect to bluster and put a good face on it, though it is easy to see that they are really in doleful dumps.
What would be Canning's indignation if he could look from his grave and see these new Reformers, who ape him in his worst qualities, and who blunder and bluster in the seat which he once filled with such glory and success.
And having danced to their own satisfaction and the delight of the crowd, the warriors with ostentation and bluster recited private grievances and challenged those against whom they had real or fancied wrongs to combat.
By noise and bluster he works on the senses of the fish until it becomes semi-paralysed.
With the arrival of the great liberator the grasp of the old officials on the island relaxed, and the bluster of the few who had grown rich in the royal service ceased.
The contrast between the ferocious bluster of the Directory and the generous simplicity of a great conqueror was not lost on the Italians nor on the moderate French.
What chance has such, our service, in the ways of the world, where to be forceful and selfish, to bluster and battle, is to survive and overcome!
There pandemonium reigned; all the cocksureness and bluster of the "machine" had vanished, and it was a horde of clamorous and excited men I found struggling round Towle and Whitney, who vainly sought to stay the panic.
Neil knew the bluster was affected in order to prevent recurrence to the subject of money, and with a heart hot and wounded he sat down to write his resignation of the offices which were his principal support.
He showed no fear, and was equally free from that bluster that often cloaks fear, but raised a face calm and cheerful--the face of a man who knows that he has done nothing worthy of blame.
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