A great boaster was he withal, and to-day he strutted about on one of these corner stages, and vaunted of his prowess, and offered to crack any man's crown for a shilling.
Down went the boaster to the floor with a sounding thump, and the fickle people yelled and laughed themselves purple; for it was a new sight to see Eric of Lincoln eating dust.
And now the boaster began to fear, and to wonder who this strange man might be.
This challenge made the boaster quake with terror, but he put on the best appearance of bravery he could, and addressing the stranger declared that man to be very foolish who sought to win with words what he had gained with blows.
Show this boaster his folly,' said Nanakin to Red-Hair, who was chewing his beard with wrath.
CV This said, the people with a joyful shout Applaud his speeches and his words approve, And calmed their grief in hope the boaster stout Would kill the prince, who late had slain his love.
Men purpose, but high gods dispose above, For underneath his sword thisboaster died Whom thus he scorned and threatened in his pride.
He soon learned the language of every bird and every beast; and Iagoo, the great boaster and story-teller, made him a bow with which he shot the red deer.
And the god spake, saying, "It is enough that thou hast slain the boaster Numanus.
Were I young, as that boaster yonder, I had not waited for gifts that I should go forth to the battle.
O give my lance to reach the Trojan knight, Whose arrow wounds the chief thou guard’st in fight; And lay the boaster grovelling on the shore, That vaunts these eyes shall view the light no more.
Virgil, by making the boaster vanquished, has drawn a better moral from this episode than Homer.
All the trappers gazed in surprise first at the tall, awkward boaster and then at Kit Carson, who in comparison with the other man seemed to be little more than a boy in size.
He had heard Rat's declaration that he was not looking for trouble, but the action of the treacherous boaster when he had lowered his rifle so that it was aimed directly at his heart did not escape him.
Even now the recollection of the boaster caused Reuben to smile, and turning to his friend he said: "Do you know what has become of Rat?
Who would suppose thatboaster of "fairness and justice," Lord Eldon, one of the most forward of the professed friends of the Princess of Wales, could have proved so heartless and active an oppressor of Queen Caroline?
The boaster was sent to thee as a temptation, he was sent as a trial of thy strength, and see!
Falstaff is neither a liar nor a coward in the usual sense, like the typical cowardly boaster of comedy.
The stock bully and boaster of comedy is one, but not Falstaff.
I will challenge the boaster to run up a hill with me, breathing but four times until the top is reached.
The boasterran but a short distance, when he shouted in pain and shame, "Had we been running down-hill, I am sure that I could have done more than you.
The next day, the boy met and challenged the boaster to run to the top of a small hill, drawing breath but four times on the way.
If you can run and draw breath but four times, I can run the same distance and draw breath but twice," the boaster said.
And the company would separate, so when the boasterreached the place no one would be there.
But no one that ever lived on this earth has been farther from the character of an empty boasterthan the Apostle Paul.
Is this some proud and foolish boaster who does not mean what he says?
But yet, I trust, the boaster means to stay Safe in the court, nor tempt the watery way.
At last, after all had tried chasing antelope, and been more and more impressed in their failures with the fleetness of that winged animal, Captain Hamilton made a sketch representing the boaster as shooting antelope with the shot-gun.
The boaster and would-be aristocrat of our number had the misfortune to come face to face with a townsman, who effectually silenced further reference to his gorgeous past.
Footnote 28: In Hawaiian warfare, the biggestboaster was the best man, and to shame an antagonist by taunts was to score success.
When Cold-nose heard Aiwohikupua, he said, "You are the greatest boaster in the crowd!
And Diomed prayed to Athene, "O goddess, if ever thou hast helped me, be with me now, and grant me to slay this boasterwhose arrow has wounded me!
Lucy stood like stone when the lifeless body of the boaster fell almost at her feet, and all the color was gone from her face.
It is nothing," said Seth Lowndes, a loud, arrogant man, the boaster of the colony.
The boaster was allowed to go home, but the girl was taken to a large room filled with straw, and was left there.
Before long a strong guard came to take the boaster away to the Tsar's palace.
Then some of the men about him said: "Prince Vladimir, Fair Sun of Kiev, it is not meet to permit this boaster to flout us all.
Me, I am glad that boaster must do something more than crow upon the thatch, Valencia!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
