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He predicts that it would be impossible to maintain the Yellowstone National Park as such, and asserts that it was only a characteristic spirit of swagger and braggadocio that prompted this attempt at an impossible ideal. He also seems to think lynching an any-day possibility in the streets of New York.
He balanced himself where he stood in a swagger that marked time. After a moment he said calmly: "My name is Wait James Wait." "Oh!" said Mr. Baker. Then, after a few seconds of smouldering silence, his temper blazed out. "Ah! Your name is Wait. What of that? What do you want? What do you mean, coming shouting here?" The nigger was calm, cool, towering, superb.
Haney spread out his hands. The Chief grunted. "That guy bothers me. I'll bet, Joe, he's going to explain you shouldn't've gone out when he didn't want you to. Me, I'm keeping away from him!" The Chief shed his space suit and swaggered away, as well as anyone could swagger while walking on what happened to be the ceiling, from Joe's point of view. Joe put his space gear in its proper place.
When Bootea came at ten to where Barlow who was now Jaswant Singh paced up and down with the swagger of a Rajput in front of the bunnia's shop, she stood for a little, her eyes searching the crowd for her Sahib. When he laughed, and called softly, "Gulab," her eyes almost wept for joy, for not seeing him at once, a dread that he had gone had chilled her.
The dame took up May and retired with her to the farther end of the room, while Adam stood as before with his hand firmly thrust down into his pocket, as if determined not to shake that of his departing guest, while Jacob opened the door as wide as he could. Gaffin, unabashed, nodded to the fisherman and his dame, and with a swagger in his walk to conceal the irritation he felt, left the cottage.
We do what we can in secret towards balancing the budget. We retrench on our charities, save on our coals, screw on our cabs, drink the sourest of Bordeaux instead of more generous vintages, dispense with the cream which makes tea palatable, and systematically sacrifice substantial comforts that we may swagger successfully in the face of a critical and carping society.
"There's nothing against Wells Street but it got ashamed of itself when it crossed the river." Bansemer was surprised to oote a tone of affectionate pride in the question. "No indeed!" "Oh, there's only one, Mr. Graydon," said the old clerk, quite warmly; "our own Fifth Avenue." "I had no idea you cared so much for swagger things, Mr. Droom," observed the other, genuinely surprised.
If Old England is going to maintain her throne and her swagger in our vast Orient she ought to pay up like a man, I was going to say; for, according to the old Sanscrit proverb, "You can get nothing for nothing, and deuced little for a halfpenny." These unpaid-for glories bring nothing but shame.
"I thought so as soon as he began to brag so much." "I believed his yarns at first," admitted Joshua. "I thought he was rather a dangerous fellow to travel with." "He looked like a desperado, certainly," said Joe, "but appearances are deceitful. It's all swagger and no real courage." "Well, what shall we do now, Joe?" "Lie down again and go to sleep." "The man's gone off without his revolver."
There is a good deal of swagger about him; he believes in carry a stick and turning it; in admiring himself and letting other people know that he is of a cypher; there is much conceit and ever so much bombast about him; he likes giving historical lectures; thinks he is an authority on everything appertaining to Elizabeth, Mary, the Prince of Orange, &c.; is fond of attacking Bishop Goss, and getting into a groove of garrulous declamation concerning Papists; still he is a determined worker, has been a laborious curate, has troubled himself more than many people in looking after those whom parsons are so fond of calling sinners and so indifferent about visiting.
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