They're not much to brag about; but I'm in debt a hundred bones for them.
I ain't one to brag unduly, and 'tis true that I be proud o' my Christian feelings.
Mother, I've seen they mighty ships o' war, which is what you can't brag on.
He came from Virginia, and was akin to the Le Moynes of South Carolina, one of the best of those old French families that brag so much of their Huguenot blood.
I hev got a drap of apple that they say is right good for this region, and a trifle of corn that ain't nothing to brag on, though it does for the country right well.
Service You never hear the robins brag about the sweetness of their song, Nor do they stop their music gay whene'er a poor man comes along.
BRAG AND BOAST Bragis a big dog; But Hold Fast, he is better.
John Fitz had drunk a good deal of wine, and he began to brag of his possessions, and boasted that he had not a foot of land that was not his freehold.
Be careful of the dogs, almost anybody will steal a hound dog and brag about it afterwards.
This was all brag on Nimble's part, who was not near so brave as he wished Silvy and Velvet-paw to suppose he was.
Yes, yes," said Silvy; "it is easy to bragbefore one is in danger.
The last words of Dennis Donovan, who has nothing on earth to brag of beside a mighty pretty person and a brave soul--that's a good one.
If a man will win battles and give his brigade a right to brag loudly of its doings, he may have its admiration and even its enthusiastic devotion, though he be as pitiless and as wicked as Lucifer.
Think of that, and then brag of your French parliaments!
A man who really loves his country would no morebrag about it than he would brag about loving his mother.
Dulcinea, that virago, Well may bragof such a Cid, Now her fame is up, and may go From Toledo to Madrid.
The way I mean to divert myself shall be with brag at Easter and at bowls on Sundays and holidays; as for your hunting, it befits neither my condition nor conscience.
As I have said, I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.
The brain worker has little to bragof as against the manual worker.
I think," she exclaimed, "I think it's wicked that people who make improvident marriages should brag of the folly to their poor children afterwards!
Oh, nothing to brag about; the heat has been killing, hasn't it?
Somehow Dick had received the idea that the world is to be carried by a display of strength rather than its actual use; that men must be impressed by brag and noise.
His bluster and brag made a sensation, until the boys began to find out that it was often wind and not substance in Dick's bragging; and they were now estimating him at his true value.
He sprung from a respektable family; his great grandfather woz a justiss ov the peace; but he has not got vanity enuff tew bragon it.
This breed waz in high repute among the landlords; almost evry tavern keeper had one, which he used tew show tew travelers, and brag on him.
As a general thing ministers hav as little tew brag ov, over and above their piety, as ennybody i kno ov.
This little fellow haz bagged more game with hiz wooden shuteing irons than aul the powder and shot that ever haz been built can brag ov.
