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He sprawled on the grass, his head propped on one hand as he regarded them. "Then probably you'd better order them off," she suggested. "You have my permission. Now's your chance to make good the lordly brag of helping the Three Bar out of the hole." She instantly regretted having said it.
Each of us in turn solemnly hefted the bomb to feel its weight. I should guess it weighed thirty pounds say, ten pounds for the case and twenty pounds for its load of fearsome ingredients. Finally, yet foremost, we were invited to inspect that thing which is the pride and the brag of this particular arm of the German Army a balloon-cannon, so called.
Often, in after-days when Sherman had become the Turenne of the armies Jack, who was often heard to brag of his gift of detecting greatness, used to turn very red in the face when he was reminded of a saying of his on that hot July day: "That chap is too lean and hungry to have much stomach for a fight; he looks better fitted for wielding the ferule than the sword.
"Odds life!" cried O'Hara, "who has so libelled us? Man, we'd start three glasses ahead of you, and then drink you under the table, on a challenge, but for this ball that we are due at." "A pretty brag," scoffed Brereton, "since you have an excuse to avoid its test. But come, we have three good hours; but drink Grayson even in that time, and I will warrant you'll not be able to sit your horses.
I hope your outing will agree with you better than our black cousin's did with her. For she fell down and died where she lay." "Cousin me no cousins!" said the brown rat. "It's awful the way you people out here in the country brag about relationship. What's become of the house-mouse?" "She's run home," said the wood-mouse.
"Put me down for my original subscription and ten dollars extra!" So we had the old man back again. He was a tower of strength, and he stood by me faithfully until he died. It was even known to brag of what it called my "spunk," and perhaps it was this quality, rather than any other, which I most needed in that particular parish at that time.
Sam," he added, solemnly, "did I tell you I got a letter from him last week?" "From Leander?" "Yes. . . . And before I got it he must have been wounded. . . . Yes, sir, before I got his letter. . . . 'Twas a good letter, Sam, a mighty good letter. Some time I'll read it to you. Not a complaint in it, just cheerfulness, you know, and and grit and confidence, but no brag." "I see.
Don't you know what that sort of thing means out here? Chelles did it to brag about you at his club. He wants to compromise you that's his game!" "Do you suppose he does?" A flicker of a smile crossed her lips. "I'm so unconventional: when I like a man I never stop to think about such things. But I ought to, of course you're quite right." She looked at Van Degen thoughtfully.
My knees hurt me very much for a few days but, I did not brag of them; and the explorations did not slacken. The author's real name is Armandine Lucile Aurore Dupin. What kind of child do you imagine the writer was? Has the narrative the stamp of a real experience?
It'll be as bad a job this for them as the duck-dub, I'm thinkin." "We hadna muckle to brag o' there oursels, guidwife," interposed her husband, calmly. "See, there," said Mrs. Anderson, either not heeding, or not hearing John's remark.
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