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The men at the head of the Volunteers were not geniuses, neither were they fools, and the difficulty of acquiring military aid from Germany must have seemed as insurmountable to them as it does to the Germans themselves. They rose because they felt that they had to do so, or be driven like sheep into the nearest police barracks, and be laughed at by the whole of Ireland as cowards and braggarts.

Dexie looked up quickly, and caught his meaning, and as she crossed the room her thoughts were flying through her brain, trying to bring to mind some song that would answer those "red-coated braggarts." A smile came to her lips, as memory served her. Yes, she could sing something that was quite as musical as "Rule Britannia," anyway, and echo the praise of her own land as well.

When he reached the shop he ran past John, who was reading a newspaper, up to his room and locked the door. About an hour afterwards Mr. Ancrum came in, all excitement, a batch of papers under his arm. 'It is going to be war, John! War I tell you! and such a war. They'll be beaten, those braggarts, if there's justice in heaven.

I hesitated a moment, and the Ottawas laughed, while Pemaou looked disdainful. All animals are braggarts, from the cock in the barnyard to the moose when he hears his rival, and man is not much better. I pricked the spear point against my hand, and looked at it critically.

"You are perfectly correct in describing Carson as a gentleman. He was one of nature's noblemen a true man in all that constitutes manhood pure honorable truthful sincere of noble impulses, a true knight-errant ever ready to defend the weak against the strong, without reward other than his own conscience. "Carson had great contempt for noisy braggarts and shams of every sort.

Communities of slaveholding braggarts, setting at defiance the laws of nature and nature's God, restoring slavery where it had been extinguished, and vainly dreaming to make it eternal; forming, in the sacred name of liberty, constitutions of government interdicting to the legislative authority itself that most blessed of human powers, the power of giving liberty to the slave!

"And who art thou?" demanded the official of the next that came. "Enrico, a gondolier of Fusina. I come to try my oar with the braggarts of the canals." "In whom is thy trust?" "Sant' Antonio di Padua?" "Thou wilt need his aid, though we commend thy spirit. Enter, and take place." "And who art thou?" he continued, to another, when the second had imitated the easy skill of the first.

"That fellow," proceeded Master George, without heeding his friend's state of abstraction, "shows, with great liveliness of colouring, how our Scotch pride and poverty make liars and braggarts of us; and yet the knave, whose every third word to an Englishman is a boastful lie, will, I warrant you, be a true and tender friend and follower to his master, and has perhaps parted with his mantle to him in the cold blast, although he himself walked in cuerpo, as the Don says.

He represents the Fiend passing up through the market, and chuckling as he listens to the strange oaths of cobbler, maltman, tailor, courtier, and minstrel. He comments on what he hears and sees with great pleasantry and satisfaction. Here is the conclusion of the piece: and with him came armed boasters and braggarts, smiting each other with swords, jagging each other with knives.

"Ha, ha! hear the braggarts!" shouted the guests. "What shall we command them to do?" For a moment they consulted together, whispering and laughing. "I have it," cried the host finally. "Our feast was short of fruit, since this is the off season. Suppose we let this fellow supply us. Here, fellow, produce us a peach, and be quick about it. We have no time for fooling."