Jack Mount came swaggering up with that delightful mixture of respect and familiarity which brings the hand to the cap but leaves a grin on the face.
He laid a sudden hand on my bridle, looking up at me withswaggering impudence, which instantly changed into amazed recognition.
The warriors select their opponents and approach warily; they call upon one another by name, hurling taunts and swaggering boastfully in the heroic style.
All night long Scarthe's royal swashbucklers had been swaggering through the streets, disturbing the tranquillity of their town, and leaving many a score unsettled.
I never saw such a bouncing, swaggeringpuppy since I was born.
He could not help swaggering a little as he picked his way through the room, with elbows jauntily elevated, and slim court rapier swaying at his side, and hat cocked lightly over the left eyebrow.
The captains of his own station resented his assumptions of superiority, and while he did not try to win them by an affectation of comradeship, he probably repelled those of better breeding by a swaggering manner.
In sock or buskin there was an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer.
There is certainly a bragging spirit of generosity, a swaggering assertion of independence, and all that, in his writings.
Quiet, there," said Redstock, swaggering out into the road.
Do you recall how the red-coats went swaggering about that matter o' Bunker Hill?
The tough swaggering gesture, the quavering song well sung, the couplet neatly capped, the back turned to the charging bull, the mantilla draped with exquisite provocativeness; all that was lo flamenco.
By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain, &c.
Nevertheless, all the swaggering Arabs and Arab camel-drivers are here very quiet and civil amongst their masters, the Touaricks.
The extinction of duelling has destroyed, or nearly destroyed, the swaggering style of truculence; people could not behave as Mowbray and Sir Bingo behave to Tyrrel, in the after-dinner scene.
All present a curious contrast to the jet black skin and woolly pate of the Suhaili, who, in his turn, is destitute of the thick pouting lip which adorns that stalwart Nubian, swaggering like a great bully by his side.
For instance: Shy spinster schoolma'ams, the essence of modesty at home, catch the spirit of adventure and appear swaggering along in the snuggest of knickers.
And in the meantime Tom Mix and Eva Novak had arrived with beautiful horses and swaggering cowboys to make a picture in the Canyon.
If he hoped to placate this swaggering scoundrel by a display of good-humour he failed lamentably.
I saw myself as a vain, swaggering boy, who, if he ever hoped to be a man among men, such as Beatrice was a woman above all other women, must change his nature at once and forever.
Swaggering in Pall Mall; eating and drinking at taverns that it makes my mouth water to think of; laying his hundred guineas a throw, if he likes.
And after the sausages had ceased to be, he lit a Red Herring cigarette and went swaggering out into the twilight street.
Whether he felt the hostility as acutely as I did, I cannot say; but he carried it off with a swaggering grace.
A kind of dark hat stuck at a considerable angle on her head gave her the prettiest little swaggering air in the world.
He moved about with a swaggering roll, grinning and laughing with the seamen.
I do not mean on a man who is swaggering with new authority, but some jailer in the prison.
The incident which forms the subject of this plate is now forgotten, but it appears some overgrown and swaggering personage had constituted himself the tyrant of the box lobbies.
