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She would gladly have been a beggar, content with the barley bread of Epicurus, she said to herself, if in return she could but have inspired her son even with the views of the reckless blusterer Antyllus. Her worst fears had not pictured Caesarion so weak, so insignificant.
Can this man, who stands there like any girl, tempting his favorites to feed, with fond words and whistling, and the offer of attractive dainties, be the stormy blusterer of last night? There is not a coaxing name that he does not lavish on them, while he fills their cups with fresh seed and water; and how carefully he moves his big hand as he strews the little cages with clean sand!
To treat such designs as serious, would be to think too contemptuously of Bostonian understandings. The artifice, indeed, is not new: the blusterer, who threatened in vain to destroy his opponent, has, sometimes, obtained his end, by making it believed, that he would hang himself. But terrours and pity are not the only means by which the taxation of the Americans is opposed.
I've brought you down here because you have the faculty of making men think they hate you then going out and working their heads off for you, because well, to be frank, you're the biggest, blunderingest, hardest-working blusterer that I ever saw and you're the only man who can pull me through. This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed.
Hence when Aeneas, emerging from the forest, comes to the banks of Styx, winding slow with sluggish stream through the infernal marsh, and the surly ferryman refuses him passage in his boat, he has but to draw the Golden Bough from his bosom and hold it up, and straightway the blusterer quails at the sight and meekly receives the hero into his crazy bark, which sinks deep in the water under the unusual weight of the living man.
You have neither mother nor father, and my child Kasana ah, what a dear, loving heart she has! she is the best of all good women; but whether she is fit to be the guide of an inexperienced young blusterer, whose heart is blazing like dry straw with love for her, is another question. I considered many things, while listening to your story, and on account of my liking for you I will tell you this.
And then he would lay the most miserable and heart-deadening feelings upon me possible. "Finally some pilgrims found out that Giant Bad Feelings was causing me much trouble and they visited me. 'Pilgrim, they said, 'pay no attention to Giant Bad Feelings. He is a big blusterer, anyway. Ignore him.
Offering no reply to her formal salutation, he remained quite still for a moment, and then swaggered off to the Tiger. 'Look here, my girl, said Stanway furiously to his youngest. 'Do you suppose we're going to wait for you all night? Jump in. Milly's lips did not move, but she faced the rude blusterer with a frigid, angry, insolent gaze.
Even the poets upon whom this equitable distribution of qualities should be most binding have thought it agreeable to nature to depart from the rule upon occasion. Harapha, in the "Agonistes," is indeed a bully upon the received notions. Milton has made him at once a blusterer, a giant, and a dastard. But Almanzor, in Dryden, talks of driving armies singly before him and does it.
Yet I think Patsy rode there oftener than anyone else, and it came to be considered her special privilege because she had first claimed it. The Major, after the incident at Gallup, did not scorn Wampus so openly as before; but he still reserved a suspicion that the fellow was at heart a coward and a blusterer. The chauffeur's sole demerit in the eyes of the others was his tremendous egotism.
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