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This was ordinary Kaffir brag, and it made me angry. But I thought it best to go cannily. 'If I am to be your slave, I managed to say, 'it would be a pity to beat me so hard. You would get no more work out of me. 'Mwanga grinned wickedly. 'You are my slave for a day and a night. After that we kill you slowly.
"Ah," Foma will interrupt rudely he is given to rude interruptions "if to die and disappear is the end of these money-grubbing years, why money-grub?" And the bourgeois whom he rudely interrupted will not understand. Nor did Mayakin understand as he laboured holily with his wayward godson. "Why do you brag?" Foma, bursts out upon him. "What have you to brag about? Your son where is he?
"You did that," said Dugald, withdrawing himself again from a muse over the records of victory. And then he bent a lustreless eye upon his own portrait, so sombre and gallant upon the wall, with the gold of the lace and epaulettes a little tarnished. "I make no brag of it, mind you," said the Cornal, waving his hand as if he would be excused for mentioning it.
If he was impatient for the verification of these promises by Northwick, he was too polite to urge it; and did nothing worse than brag to him as he bragged about him.
This story teaches us that true dignity and courage depend not upon outward appearance, but come rather from within; also that brag and bluster are poor weapons to carry into battle. A mandarin once lived in Kiang-ho who was so exceedingly cross and disagreeable that everyone hated him. He snarled and stormed at every person he met and was never known to laugh or be merry under any circumstances.
He will brag about cold baths. He will prate of chest measurements; regard golf with contempt; and speak of the West as God's country. Florian Sykes was five feet three and a half, and he liked to quote those red-blooded virile poems about the big open spaces out where the West begins.
Every one thinks so, else they would not tell of it and brag as they do. By being so unlike the rest of the world you will end badly indeed you will, Miss Blanche." "Look for a moment at the case as I put it. A man asks me to marry him: he likes me thinks I shall make him a good wife.
Controversial subjects are avoided, and one must not brag or display concern because these things cause anger and disgust. Politeness and tact are essential to turn away wrath, to avoid that ego injury that brings anger. We contrast with the brusque type, careless of whether he arouses anger, the tactful, which conciliates by avoiding prejudice, and which hates force and anger as unpleasant.
Worthless things receive a value when they are made the offerings of respect, esteem, and gratitude: these you have given me so mighty and peculiar reasons to have, in the highest degree, for your lordship, that if they can add a price to what they go along with, proportionable to their own greatness, I can with confidence brag, I here make your lordship the richest present you ever received.
Sherwood by an old uncle, or great uncle. I guess it's nothing much to brag about." "Bess said once it might be fifty thousand dollars," said Cora, speaking the sum unctuously. Cora was poor herself and she loved money. "Oh, maybe!" exclaimed Linda Riggs, tossing her head. "But I guess nobody knows the rights of it. Maybe it isn't so much.
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