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This town was absolutely undefended, and was occupied by the Boers without a shot being fired. The ceremony of the hoisting of the Vierkleur had been attended by the whole countryside, and had taken place with much psalm-singing and praying, interlarded with bragging and boasting.
At the same time I fear that there may have been a little spite in his feelings too; he had been a good deal snubbed by his sister Clarissa for introducing a friend who had gone far to spoil her triumph in the play she had got up with such pains and forethought, and he much regretted having ever asked him. Gould's bragging would not have been much believed, only Crawley confirmed it.
If none of these, dear Mother, what's your woe? Pray do you fear Spain's bragging Armado? Doth your Allye, fair France, conspire your wrack, Or do the Scots play false behind your back? Doth Holland quit you ill for all your love? Whence is the storm from Earth or Heaven above? Is't drought, is't famine, or is't pestilence, Dost feel the smart or fear the Consequence?
Longman, the third, looked at all the others over his shoulder. Goldborder, the fourth, went about with a golden belt round his waist; and little Playman did nothing at all, and was proud of it. There was nothing but bragging among them, and therefore I went away." "And now we sit here and glitter!" said the Bit of Bottle.
That is another tale, however; and on this Sunday the drinking was productive only of considerable noise and boasting. Two old codgers, head to head, were bragging laboriously of their prowess as cooks. A small but interested group egged them on. "Flapjacks?" enunciated one laboriously; "flapjacks? Why, my fren', you don't know nothin' about flapjacks.
Then a face appears at your window and barks, "Holyoke, Mass.," and your normal day falls back into shape. The response of the people you tell about it varies all the way from outrage that anybody would let a kid of five go alone on such a dangerous mission to loud bragging that he, too, once went on such a journey, at four and a half, and didn't need a note.
They were, in fact, a necessitous family; numerous, too, almost beyond example; by no means respected in their own neighbourhood, as he had lately had particular opportunities of discovering; aiming at a style of life which their fortune could not warrant; seeking to better themselves by wealthy connections; a forward, bragging, scheming race.
While her son and her friend were saying all they could to console her, there appeared at the gate the last man any of them ever expected to see Mr. Bolt. Henry saw him first, and said so. "Keep him out," cried the doctor, directly. "Don't let that bragging fool in to disturb our sorrow." He opened the door and told the servant-girl to say "Not at home." "Not at home," said the girl.
He has sat here bragging of his money to me and that he might spend a couple of thousand a year if he liked. As if I cared! But if it's going to be yours, mama two thousand a year I do care. I do!" "But we can't think only of ourselves, Bessie," Deleah, horrified, put in. "We've got to think of mama. She could never endure it." "She should have thought of that before," Bessie said.
'Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word, never. 'Die, cries Balfour of Burley to the villain in 'Old Mortality. 'Die, hoping nothing, believing nothing 'And fearing nothing, replies the other. This is the old and honourable fine art of bragging, as it was practised by the great worthies of antiquity.
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