Then he knocked over a number of bragging fellows, and would have thrown me too if he had not been too fatigued.
We Colorado people always do a good deal of bragging when we are in the East.
His breast is like a gentlewoman's closet, which locks up every toy or trifle, or some bragging mountebank that makes every stinking thing a secret.
His fool serves for his foil, and sets him off as well as his bragging and lying.
But Christ will interrupt their endless bragging and will demand:--'whence this new kind of Judaism?
I fear you have been imposed upon by the trickery of certain men who are bragging nowadays, with splendid phrases, of their apostolic liberty.
All this bragging about his great friends at Rome with their flattering offers can only confirm the Lutherans in their distrust of him.
Everything looked so mild and handsome, that I wondered whether these men of Devonshire might not be such fools for bragging after all, when tested.
After a little more of this, and Ikey bragging all the time, though I saw nothing very wonderful, we turned the corner of a narrow street, and opened into a broader one.
I was just bragging when I gave you the idea that there was anything between us.
A brilliant career in picking up such trifles; a star performer, Red, if you don't mind my bragging of your wife.
To the which in a glorious bragging humour he aunswered, that hee was a gentleman, a captaine commander, a chiefe leacjer, that came away from the king of England vppon discontentment.
Pg310] Later, William the Conqueror and his knights are resting and feasting and bragging of their deeds, there where Harold's standards were overthrown and the banner of the Three Lions of Normandy waves in the cool night wind.
No bragging now of what he would do with the Normans, or who should take their lands and their wives.
There was nothing but bragging among them, and therefore I went away.
Consequently he did not attempt to put his bragging threat into practice, for Gilbert was taller than he, stronger, and more than twenty years younger.
Bragging and lying are well coupled," answered Gilbert, falling into guard.
I have within my mind A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, Which I will practise.
The truth was that he had been rather bragging to the other Cocks, and only a few minutes later he spoke with pride of the time when "our" shiny egg should hatch.
Jacobs was braggingabout his wife, what a true, virtuous, lovely woman she was.
But Epeus is perhaps a ridiculous instance, excusing his bragging as an athlete by his confession of timidity and want of manliness.
Luck has been on our side up to this, and will be yet.
The Colonel was the idol of his bragging old regiment and of the bragging brigade which for the last six months he had commanded.
They seem silly, in a way; the Ruskins bragging on themselves and slurring the Delphians and the Delphians slurring the Ruskins and bragging on themselves.
