They drew their short-swords with a swagger and crossed the blades with the glasses on them; but they trembled so that both glasses fell off and they did not get a drop.
A passing flush came over Tom's face on discovering a witness to his humiliation; but he transacted his business with an assumed swaggerwhich ill accorded with his inward misery.
He bought some cigars of his own on the way, and offered them with a less awkward swagger than he had been able to assume the night before.
All signs of shame and penitence disappeared as he stepped with a swagger up to Charlie and exclaimed,-- "What business have you to attack my friends?
But his manner, his manner--by swagger and covert sneer and ostentatious triumph of alleged possession emanating an unwearied challenge to my manhood.
The stuff may have been pure; at least it was stout and cut fiery way down my unwonted throat; the one draught infused me with a swagger and a sudden rosy view of life through a temporary mist of watering eyes.
Gaffin, unabashed, nodded to the fisherman and his dame, and with a swagger in his walk to conceal the irritation he felt, left the cottage.
He did not like the expression of the man's countenance or the impudent swagger of his manner; while it was evident by the way he talked that he was a person of some education.
Some like to swagger about in their little skull-caps, and now and then one is attended by a bull-dog.
But his hesitation was only momentary, and he came on with just a little additional swagger in his gait.
There was no trace of swagger or bravado when Tom faced his inquisitor.
What amused Joe Davidson most, however, was the tremendous swagger in the creature's gait, and the imperturbable gravity with which he smoked a cigar!
He crawled up the bank a sad and sober man, and all three at once tumbled from the height of saucyswagger to a low depth of slavish abjectness.
It was exceedingly amusing to witness the exact imitation they gave of the swagger of a certain white with whom they had been dealing, and who had, as they had perceived, evidently wished to assume an air of indifference.
Any one might say, "Neither swagger nor grovel"; and it would have been a limit.
But to say, "Here you can swagger and there you can grovel"--that was an emancipation.
His military companion walked with a careless swagger by his side, exactly regulating his pace by that of the little nobleman, whose meditations he had so cruelly interrupted.
It would have been a horrid upset, this running-away idea, and I believe George secretly felt it very much, though he did swaggerso and pretend he didn't care.
However this may be, the tiniest bit of swagger costs him a cold in the head, and that is what he has now.
This is a pun; sich mausig machen means to swaggeror assume undue importance.
The news flew round the school, and several senior boys were observed in conversation with Michael, so that he was able to swagger considerably.
Dora thought they looked 'all right,' and, as Miss Carthew had succumbed again to her headache, Michael and Alan were free to swagger up and down on the melting asphalt of the promenade.
On Sunday Michael and Alan used to brush their top-hats and button their gloves and tie their ties very carefully and, armed with sticks of sobriety and distinction, swagger to whatever church was fashionable among their friends.
You don't come here to swagger about," growled the Headmaster.
Contrasted with my companions, I felt I was superior to them in appearance; and a little pardonable vanity gave me an air and swagger which were not unfitting the military profession I had set up.
In fact, there was a peculiar swagger of independence which bordered upon insolence in most of the homes from which Kansas help must be drawn.
He wrote off to town and bought me a very swagger pair of Plymouth Rocks--just beauties.
It's always the way with half these swagger sittings you buy from dealers.
Sometimes you may be treated to the sight of a dusky queen gaily displaying her ample charms in a low-cut secondhand dinner or ball dress that may have created a sensation when first worn at some swagger function in London or Paris.
There is no reason why the Scoundrel, fairly beaten at the last point in the game, should not go to his death without swagger and without remorse.
The eighteenth century flattered him by its imitation; but cowardice and swagger compelled it to limp many a dishonourable league behind.
She developed a most entrancing swagger and the most captivating nonchalance.
In this character Miss Tempest united remarkably well boyish freedom and masculine swagger with feminine charm and ingenuousness, and the picture that she made was one never to be forgotten.
Any one who kin do it at all gets a feather, an' any one who kin do it in one minute gets a swagger feather, or whatever you call it; that takes care of Yan and me an' leaves Guy out in the cold.
For which piece of swagger we forfeited our suppers; but when we went to bed we found pieces of cake under our pillows, for my mother could not bear us to be short of food, however badly we behaved.
I took as cheerful a farewell of my mother as I could, for her sake; and put on a good deal of swagger and "don't care" to console Jem.
