Yet he is in his single person richer and more entertaining than all the ancient Silenuses and court-fools and braggarts and parasites put together.
Scorn for princes and people; for heroes, who are but fellow-brawlers and braggarts after all; and for artists, who are but flatterers and parasites seeking possible patrons.
It is a favourite vaunt of the braggarts of France, that their children are born soldiers.
Comets," said he, "are the very braggarts of the sky.
None but the brave deserve the fair; Some braggarts are cowards.
Most of the braggarts have gradually disappeared from the scene, but the deeds of this hero were always in accordance with his words.
He is the exception to the rule that all braggarts are cowards.
The braggartsand the boasters, after exhibiting a temporary enthusiasm, gave out at the first dangers encountered on the march.
Jodelet himself, the valet of Don Felix, seems intended as a burlesque or caricature of all the braggarts who had preceded him.
That will do; now let us go and hear what the braggarts have to say;" and, drawing my Capa round so as to conceal the lower part of my face, I joined the circle of gobemouches.
Yes, I know them well--a set of cowardly braggarts and bullies!
Harry was still in the outer room, or he would have interposed, for it was not a nice thing to be the butt of a set of braggarts and bullies, and this fashion of drawing a young man into their clutches was by no means unusual.
She was thinking of her mother's words and wondering if these then were the narrow-hearted fools and braggarts against whom she was to struggle.
You will fight the unhappy influence of the narrow-hearted fools andbraggarts who have helped to bring catastrophe in your life and upon whole nations.
My father called out to them: "A good lesson that for our braggarts and blusterers!
At times he proposes to train me in throwing the bull in order that he may take me afterward to Seville, where, with lance in hand, on the plains of Tablada, I shall make the braggartsand the bullies stare.
There be more fools than farthingales, and more braggarts than beards, in this good land of ours.
Thus he became an easy prey to the hordes of idlers and braggarts with whom he associated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "braggarts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
