With a boastful laugh he repeated his assertion that it didn't take much courage to open a sealed door, especially when there might be a fortune concealed behind it.
He is of a very quarrelsome nature, a sharp bargainer, and a boastful talker.
Their boastful chief saw Strong Elk and rushed at him.
One moment more, and the Blackfoot chief had been in the happy hunting-grounds with his fathers, when the gun of Big Otter came down on the skull of the boastful one.
Very boastful was Iagoo; Never heard he an adventure But himself had met a greater; Never any deed of daring But himself had done a bolder; Never any marvellous story But himself could tell a stranger.
So long as the boastful human mind Consents in such mills as this to grind, I sit very firmly upon my throne!
He remaineth ever Self-confident and boastful as before.
Then they all rose up in fury Against their boastful friend, For prehistoric patience Cometh quickly to an end.
Loud screamed the Anthropoidal Apes With laughter wild and gay; They tried to catch that boastful one, But he always got away.
Be not boastful of thy daughter's beauty, Sister Cooper, it is the beauty of goodness alone which dieth not.
A colloquialism forboastful talk, which is expressed less coarsely but with as much force by “bluster” or “brag.
A coarse term for a boastful and wordy talker: not used by persons who cultivate a refined diction.
I am not certainly prepared to say that the circumstance is one to be boastful of," said Lady Lackington, who resented the look of haughty defiance of the other.
Where the boastful spirit in which he had declared himself free, no more the slave of Grog's insolent domination, nor basely cowering before his frown?
On his arrival he forthwith issued one of those boastfuladdresses for which the French emperor and his marshals had become celebrated.
That boastful patriot himself--the great Earl of Chatham--hastened to express his sympathy with Franklin, and his detestation of the treatment he had received from Wedderburne and the government.
This was a fellow of mighty limb and boastful tongue, vast in strength and terrible in war, as his own tale ran.
Destiny had decided that the boastful boy should not have the opportunity to carry out this threat.
A contented, boastful bustle was in the air about him; swearing at one another in a friendly way, merry, with smiles on their perspiring brows, the peasants approached him and surrounded him closely.
The war was the war to him, not a theatre for boastful individual action; but Amelia remembered now that he had seemed to hold heroic proportions in relation to that immortal past.
I never wearied of my sweet burden, though I was so proud to say he grew heavier every day, and made boastful complaints of his weight, as mothers use.
The two sons are yet alive in every human community--the one openly boastful of his sin, the other a hypocritical pretender.
Compare the fate that overtook Nebuchadnezzar, while the words of boastful pride were yet in his mouth (Dan.
Now it happened that there lived in this same village an envious and boastful fellow, who had been once a chief.
King Stephen, and later the struggle of the Cavaliers and Roundheads for its possession, during the absence abroad of the then reigning Earl--have been recorded with less boastful emphasis.
We were young, undeveloped, with a crude, almost raw civilization, and a great inclination to be boastful and conceited.
But just as she reached the track an express train dashed past, and old Brindle saw the engine toss her boastful acquaintance into the air as a mad bull tosses a dog.
Then Pierre was once more struck by this truth--that whosoever possesses Rome is consumed by the building frenzy, the passion for marble, the boastful desire to build and leave his monument of glory to future generations.
He was never boastful about them and indeed seemed to have quite normal moral feeling.
He was boastful of his experiences, but sometimes admitted that he prevaricated.
