You don't look like a fire-eating, swashbuckling party to me," he said.
The fop went rejoicing at this proof that her estimate of his commanding qualities had nowise suffered by contrast with those of that swashbuckling Francesco.
Am I so base a man that by the very thought of love for you I must presume, whilst you can give yourself into the arms of this swashbuckling bravo, and take his kisses?
He talked with her in the morning at great length and upon subjects poetical or erudite, by which he meant to display his vast mental superiority over the swashbuckling Francesco.
He made pretence to sip the wine Luciano had brought him, and listened avidly to that swashbuckling story, from which it appeared that this knave had once been better circumstanced and something of a leader.
A nameless, homeless adventurer; a swashbuckling bully, reeking of blood and leather, and fit to drive such a pack as Fortemani's.
His hatred for the interloper was as nothing now to his rage against Valentina, a rage that had its birth in a wondering uncomprehension of how she should prefer that coarse, swashbuckling bully to himself, the peerless Gonzaga.
He was a blustering, swashbuckling army officer, who could always be brought to account if he misconducted himself, or mixed himself up in shady transactions.
You talk like the hectoring, swashbuckling bully that you are," he cried angrily, but looking rather uncomfortable.
The swashbuckling Jack Altshuler had know his many times commander even better than Cogswell had realized.
Why must the wretch go plunging out into the world and measure himself against these swashbuckling conspirators?
They looked anything but the fit comrades for a swashbuckling tavern hero.
Then in comes a swashbuckling Scots Jacobite which is my private enemy, and a dozen bullies at his tail.
Matters of boundaries and frontiers possessed no interest whatever for these Paolistas or Mamelucos, by which latter name the swashbuckling members of this community were better known.
He was apparently a true blade of the old swashbuckling type; he employed religion for such ends as he might have in view at the moment, regarding its tenets cynically, tongue in cheek.
Why, may I perish if it is not the same swashbuckling ruffler I once knew in London town!
