Moreover, he was heard to make the savage boast that he had, to quote his own words, 'feasted his eyes on his enemy's deathbed.
It was his boast that his family had given Rome more enemies than allies.
I knew you were not the man to make a vain boastof a girl's love, and I was therefore sure that you might rely on her affection.
Well, she said but little; and a man should never boast that a lady has favoured him.
Owen Fitzgerald at any rate might boast that he was true and generous in his love.
As he did so he became very red in the face, and too plainly showed that he had made a false boast in speaking of the coolness of his temperament.
The natural lines of it were full of beauty, of pale silent beauty, too proud in itself to boast itself much before the world, to make itself common among many.
Then it developed that Hume made a boast of having come by this naturally enough.
And if pride was not forbidden," said Thwackum, "I might boast of having taught him that duty which he himself assigned as his motive.
Me have honour, as me say, to be deir king, and no monarch can do boast of more dutiful subject, ne no more affectionate.
Me sall no do boast of dat neider: for what can me do oderwise dan consider of de good of dose poor people who go about all day to give me always de best of what dey get.
Do youboast because it has turned out according to your wishes?
A small, wooden blackboard and the teacher's table and rickety chair are all that it can boastin the way of equipment.
I told him what I had heard, that the trouting was nothing to boast of except as the market hunter potted his game.
Epicurean Rome could boast of no such treat as this," exclaimed the Major, shaking the crystal drops from his shaggy mane, as he rose to the surface after the first plunge.
Besides, if Christians can boast a catalogue of martyrs, Jews can do the same.
Let us then conclude, that the Christian religion has no right to boast of procuring advantages either by policy or morality.
In matters of religion, infancy and barbarity seem to be the boast of the greater part of the human race.
This bread is afterwards worshipped by a people, whoboast their detestation of idolatry.
Thus Christians have no reason to boast of the prophecies contained in the books of the Jews, nor to make invidious applications of them to that nation, because they detest its religion.
Christians may, therefore, cease to boast the forgiveness of injuries, as a precept that could be given only by their God, and which proves the divine origin of their morality.
After this explanation, let Christians no longer boast the marvellous progress of their religion.
The European nations, who boast of possessing the purest faith, are not surely the most flourishing and powerful.
We Irish have not many virtues, but we can boast that we seldom make love to other men's wives.
They are in a small hotel off Fifth Avenue, half way between the streets which boast of numbers higher than fifty, and those others which follow the effete European customs of having names.
Besides I cannot, or could not at that time, boastof being Ascher's intimate friend.
Gorman, Ascher, and I were three grown men and we could not boast of a child among us to serve as an excuse for going to a circus.
While England was still plunged in barbarism, and France and Germany could boast of no cultivation, Ireland was full of monasteries where learned men disseminated knowledge.
It was an event of some importance, therefore, when one afternoon Grizzly Jim, the trapper, brought to the only hostelry the settlement could boast a live badger.
Great queen, you have upon your throne done honor To every virtue; nothing now remains But to the sex, whose greatest boast you are To be the leading star, and give the great Example of its most consistent duties.
At Ypres the Hôtel de la Chatellenie will care for you and your automobile very well, though its garage is nothing to boast of.
If we had done only this, we shouldn't boast of it.
Some gentlemen of the "fancy," as the dog breeders term themselves, boast they know how to check it; and to what extent their knowledge may reach I cannot pretend to say.
I have no occasion to boast of the success of my treatment of these fits.
This is a heartless practice, which ignorance only would resort to; but such conduct is very general, and the people who follow it boast laughingly of its effect.
It is the boast of State and government officials that a child whose parents live in isolated parts receives as good teaching as children in city schools.
No skyscrapers, nor such grand buildings as Melbourne and Sydney can boast of are seen here, yet everything has a solid, attractive and complete appearance.
The two-berth cabin had no margin to boast of, as, in order for one to get a handkerchief from his hip pocket, it was necessary to vacate it and seek arm-turning space in the hallway.
The islands also boast a Prime Minister, a Chancellor of the Exchequer, a Chief Justice and other high officials.
No place of Durban's size can boast of better buildings or better stores.
Mechanics, also, boast of a "stove-pipe" in their wardrobes.
Stapfer makes a boast of having obtained the First Consul's consent to withdraw the French troops entirely from Switzerland.
The numbers of the lycées and of their pupils rapidly increased; but the progress of the secondary and primary schools, which could boast no such attractions, was very slow.
I should like to be au fait before Bruck begins to boast of his ambiguous distinction,--I should like to have some weapon at hand.
She had descended, in search of peace, to obscurity; but her pride revolted from the thought that her low-born husband might boast of her connections and parade her descent to his level.
Why, that was brave Colonel Guy St. John, the Cavalier, the pride and boast of Sir Miles; you know his weakness.
He could boast of no such intimacy with the proprietor, although his position would rather have entitled him to it.
Indeed, the mendicants were wont to boast of their feats of sorcery to the terrified peasants, who hastened to placate them by all the means in their power.
In Geoffrey of Monmouth's book and in the Morte d'Arthur she is drawn as the scheming enchantress who wishes to lure Merlin to his ruin for the joy of being able to boast of her conquest.
Our decree is that he shall carry out his rashboast to-morrow ere sunset, or, if it be but idle folly, lose his head on the following morning.
The situation of my friend's house was close to the Toronto road, partly built of logs and framework: it had been designed by the former Yankee proprietor, and could certainly boast of no architectural beauties.
The village of Oshawa, in this township, now contains upwards of one thousand inhabitants, more than double the number the whole township could boast of when I first set foot on its soil.
The Persian can boast a poetic organisation and an ancient civilisation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
