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So as he went on swinging, he heard all the birds quarrelling, and boasting, and fighting, hundreds of them all around, and he said to the chaffinch on the ash: "Chaffinch, it seems to me that you are all very wicked birds, for you think of nothing but fighting all day long". The chaffinch laughed, and said: "My dear Sir Bevis, I do not know what you mean by wicked.
"I guess we've won all we set out to get, haven't we?" inquired Reade, squaring his broad shoulders with an air of pride. "I feel equal to anything that a fellow of my size and years could do." "I think, without boasting, we may consider ourselves the six most valuable candidates for Gridley High School football this year," Prescott declared.
Having no fancy to be so treated, I thought it prudent to go below, knowing very well that, in spite of their boasting, they would soon get the worst of it, and that you, at all events, would fight on until you had compelled them to strike their flag or sent them to the bottom. I felt the awful position in which I was placed.
I became clearly convinced how indisputably it was the code of sanctity, and hence of truth itself; how really unphilosophical it was to take offence at a few little imperfections of style, not less absurd than the vanity of one who despises everything that wears not the gloss of elegant forms; what still greater absurdity to imagine that such a collection of books, so long held in religious veneration, should not possess an authentic origin, boasting, as they do, such a vast superiority over the Koran, and the old theology of the Indies.
Tom walked very slowly for reasons of his own, but made himself pleasant enough, talking on a variety of subjects, and boasting his own good taste in matters of curiosity, especially old furniture. "I wish you could have induced the viscountess to come with us," said Tom, "we should have been all the better for her help.
They publish themselves to the universe. They will speak through you though you were dumb. They will flow out of your actions, your manners and your face. . . . Don't say things: What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot say what you say to the contrary. . . . What a man is engraves itself upon him in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing, boasting nothing.
Just as Hazard was boasting of the innocuous character of a volcano, that near them fired a gun, as the men afterwards called it, casting into the air a large flight of cinders and stones, accompanied by a sharp flash of flame. All the lighter materials drove away to leeward, but the heavier followed the law of projectiles, and scattered in all directions.
"For Ireland's harpers," he was boasting with a reckless air of pride, "were better than any harpers in the world." "Liars?" asked Adam blankly. Kenny found his occasional pretense of deafness trying in the extreme. "Harpers!" he repeated in a loud voice. "And you heard me before." Adam nodded. "What do you mean," demanded Kenny suspiciously, "that you did hear me or you didn't?"
"Last night they could hear him way out on the lake, boasting about his father stealing silver. 'Better keep your watch under your pillow and let Uncle Jeb take care of your coin, that's what all the fellows are saying." "Is that what you're saying?" I said. "I'm not saying anything," he shot back. "You saw what he just did," I told him. "I saw what he just did," he said.
What do you mean to pay the Heer Allan Quatermain for saving your life, for I am sure he has done so? You have got no goods left, although you were always boasting about your riches; they are now at the bottom of a river, so it will have to be in love and service." He muttered something about my wanting no payment for a Christian act.
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