But these boastings were not known in Saint Domingo; though the true state of the case was whispered in Paris, as regarded the mortality among the white troops, and the formidable influence still retained by the negro leaders.
Monsieur and Madame Pascal had, by great activity, obtained a passage for France in the ship which was freighted with Leclerc's boastings of his crowning feat.
Amidst the boastings which he sent home, and by which France was amused, Leclerc felt that his thirty-five thousand soldiers had made no progress whatever in the real conquest of Saint Domingo.
There was, however, a little grey snail in the grass with her shell on her back, who was very disgusted with the boastings of the animals, especially of the stag, as if swiftness was the only virtue to which an animal ought to aspire.
Mrs. Williams explained that Lizzie, having exhausted the Indian children with her boastingsin two days, had lost interest in life and run back to the slums.
Where now your boastingsand your loud-mouthed blasphemies?
As the high parts of the ridge are beaten down into the furrows, so the lofty ideas, the grand schemes, and carnal boastings of the heart begin to level down, when the Holy Spirit comes to work upon the soul.
Next would be a volley of oaths and blasphemies; then a tumultuous tirade of lewdboastings of having defiled virgins and wives by force, etc.
Their boastings and vain speculations were in relation to what the Lord was going to do, not what they themselves purposed doing.
American boastings groundless over the surrender of Cornwallis.
The humiliation will be too great, and after all their boastings against Europe, they will scarcely be satisfied to yield to the common reprobation with which the act has been received.
One might have supposed that a great and signal victory had been achieved, such were the rejoicings and boastings that took place at the sight.
They are full of boastings, not boastings simply as to their country, their town, or their party, but of boastings as to themselves.
They have stumbled in their running, and are lying hurt upon the ground; while they who have heard their boastings turn upon them with ridicule, and laugh at them in their discomforture.
The sergeant's horrible boastings thus silenced, and the whole room in confusion, he bade the family good night, saying he was on duty, and presently quitted the house.
I knew they were but the idle boastings of a braggart.
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