In this mood, after a brief exchange of breakfast civilities, far worse than none, he walked slowly to the corral to saddle, cursing Smith for the braggart he knew he was and for the scoundrel he believed him to be.
Sullen and surly, he felt no regret that Tubbs, braggart and fool though he was, was dead.
On this the Mohawk, stretching out his arm, exclaimed in a Braggart tone, "This is the hand that split the head of that young man.
Instantly Reuben recognized him as Rat, the braggart whom he had last seen when he was among the foothills of the Rockies.
Reuben easily led the way toward the place where he and Rat had stopped for their noontime meal and where also he had foolishly told the braggart that one of the caches was not far away.
Fellows whose brows would melt beneath a casque, Whose hands would fray to grasp a brand's rough hilt, Who ne'er launched more than braggart threats at foes!
But rather than accuse mankind of purposely dissembling terror in the hope of braggart fame, we would lay the charge upon a queer divergence between the mind and the bodily will.
The lighters do not differ much from the grotesque, the foolish, and the braggart ruck of men.
His departure, like his coming and all his stay, was accompanied by the silly rigmarole of braggart falsehoods he was never tired of issuing, and which deceived no one but himself.
The braggart and bully was led in his turn before the Chancellor, his hands still bound, but the arms he had upon him still in their place.
He could unhorse Roger de Horn at one blow, despite his size and strength; and that does yon coward and braggart well know, wherefore he will not meet him in fair fight.
He had seen that the little arm was as white and hard as marble, and had such muscles as a great boy might have been a braggart about.
As yeasty heroes in theirbraggart teens Spout learnedly of war, who never saw A cannon aimed.
Let 'em come if they will, these braggart Frenchmen!
I've thought it all over in the garden; and I was an ass and a braggart for talking to you as I did last night.
Paris, mystified by a braggart press, ignores the greatness of the peril; Paris abuses confidence.
It took the Council almost a month to recognise that this pithless braggart was only a disappointed officer of the standing army, his airs of an innovator notwithstanding.
Thraso, the braggart captain, in the Eunuchus, is ridiculous enough to supply the audience with mirth, without indulging in the extravagant bluster of Pyrgopolinices.
The character of the braggart captain was continued in the Bernardo of Shadwell's Amorous Bigot, and Nol Bluff, in Congreve's Old Bachelor.
Phaedria is brought on the stage venting his indignation at being excluded from the house of the courtezan Thais, for the sake of Thraso, who is the sole braggart captain exhibited in the plays of our author.
Accordingly, the braggart Captain, though he has at length disappeared, was one of the most notorious personages on the early Italian, French, and English stage.
On the general nature of the parts of the parasite and braggart captain, something has been said while treating of the dramas of Plautus; but Terence has greatly refined and improved on these favourite characters of his predecessor.
The braggart captains of the old English theatre have much greater merit than the utterers of these nonsensical rhapsodies of the French stage.
As a boy he already violently disliked mendacious boys, such as the little braggart of whom he tells in the Colloquies.
And so hearing so much that was braggart of Princewood, she all but lost faith: as is the way of us all if we do not touch, now and then, the shrine of our Truth.
