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When Edward sent him a herald to claim the crown of France, and to carry him a defiance in case of refusal, so far from answering to this bravado in like haughty terms, he replied with great temper, and even made the herald a considerable present.
"There is something in what you say," I replied, with what bravado I could muster. "A little, I think," she returned, smiling; "now, what I wish you to do is to make Uncle Fenelon put into Far Harbor. If he refuses, you can go in in spite of him, since you and Mr. Farrar are the only ones who can sail. You have the situation in your own hands." There was certainly wisdom in this, also.
When she faintly hinted her apprehensions to Samuel, he demanded, as if surprised "Haven't you mentioned it in one of your letters?" "Oh NO!" "If that's all," said he, with bravado, "I'll write and tell her myself." So that Mrs. Baines was duly apprised of the signboard before her arrival.
I could not recognize a vagabond as Emperor; such conduct was to me unpardonably base. To call him an impostor to his face was to devote myself to death; and the sacrifice for which I was prepared on the gallows, before all the world, and in the first heat of my indignation, appeared to me a useless piece of bravado. I knew not what to say. Pugatchéf awaited my reply in fierce silence.
In chivalric bravado, to emphasize the fact that the withdrawal of the Confederates was merely strategic, not forced, the young man, with a lively company of horsemen, hungering for excitement, formed themselves into a defiant rear-guard. The Union outposts, never suspecting that Johnston's army was not behind the enterprising cavalry, withdrew prudently to the main forces.
And with a quaint air of renewed cheerfulness he took himself away at a rapid walk to his inn. He appeared at daybreak next morning outside the Vane Arms with all the air of one setting out on his travels in distant lands. He had a field glass slung over his shoulder, and a very large sheath knife buckled by a belt round his waist, and carried with the cool bravado of the bowie knife of a cowboy.
You are a man of honour yourself, monsieur; you know there can be no other course." "If you were to have my brother arrested," added Colomba, "half the village would take his part, and we should have a fine fusillade." "I give you fair notice, monsieur, and I entreat you not to think I am talking mere bravado.
She could "play the game" so perfectly, he grasped, because she had been obliged either to play it or go under ever since she had been big enough to read the cards in her hand. To be "a good sport" was perhaps the best lesson that the world had yet taught her. Though she could not be, he decided, more than eighteen, she had acquired already the gay bravado of the experienced gambler with life.
Not only the bravado of such a deed, but the athletic feat of carrying such a weighty object over that difficult country, are very characteristic of this people. It is fired annually during the feast of S. Nicholas. The worthy Abbot was greatly annoyed to find that we had ordered food below, and still more when he heard that we were returning to Kolašin the same afternoon.
"When one speaks of the devil he appears," said the workman, suddenly, with an emotion which gave the lie to his recent bravado; "if you wish to see this devil incarnate of a Bergenheim, just turn your head. Good-by." At these words he leaped a ditch at the left of the road and disappeared in the bushes.
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