Another such deed I shall never accomplish," said Pan Andrei; and boastfulness seized him completely.
He woos his bride as ungallantly as Hotspur talks to his Kate, and he answers the challenges of the French with a boastfulness that throws Hotspur's into the shade.
Is it necessary to add that the ironical reception given to such exhibitions of boastfulness rouse in him a feeling of irritation which is all the greater for the fact that he does not openly show it?
Just as it belonged to his boastfulness to depreciate his own extraction, so it belonged to it to exalt Mrs. Sparsit's.
But he did not restrain himself before Marynia; he judged that if he could permit himself such little boastfulness before any one, it was before his wife.
Perhaps there was some boastfulness in my tone as I added, "He came of the famous Fighting Adares of the County Limerick.
I ignored his pathetic boastfulness to continue my own sentence.
Thou shouldst also give up wandering in the night, and avoid the faults of stinginess and vanity and boastfulness and wrath.
Yayati, also, though his merits had become exhausted (in consequence of his boastfulnessand thought was hurled down from heaven) succeeded in regaining regions of felicity through his firmness.
There is too much self-observation and too much boastfulness in this youthful rodomontade.
Laube at times offends by coarseness, at times by an almost personal boastfulnessof woman-killing qualities, and at times it is too perceptible that he is writing for the purpose of annoying his respectable neighbours.
How could my vain boastfulness have so far got the better of my natural keenness; how could my silly self-sufficiency have carried me so far?
Even Cotton Mather could not avoid a tone of pious boastfulness when he narrated the doings of New England.
What has been treated by incompetent critics as mere boastfulness has in reality been practical sagacity and foresight.
I accept your reproof, child, for boastfulness is hateful in a warrior.
That they have; but I never heard them made matter of boastfulness before," said Lady Dorothea, sneeringly.
It is in no boastfulness I say that I had acquitted myself well at home; I had attained to rather a reputation.
But from St. John himself there would have been a trace of boastfulnessin such a phrase.
The nearness of God is inconsistent with boastfulness of man.
But the girl on her part had little thought of marriage or of men, for she said they had small minds, and she would rather live alone than listen always to their boastfulness and their foolish chatter.
More than all else, he hated boastfulness and he had scanty patience with anyone who was vain of his own strength.
The boy talked brightly, and his air of boastfulness fell from him.
Do you think such boastfulness fits you for such work as ours?
