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Sylla, on the contrary, not only accepted with pleasure the credit of such divine felicities and favors, but joining himself in extolling and glorifying what was done, gave the honor of all to Fortune, whether it were out of boastfulness, or a real feeling of divine agency.
Relieved of the irritant of the lank youth's voice and presence, Iskender felt dismay at his own boastfulness, and repented of it humbly before Allah. He knew that a jealous eye is fixed upon the heart of every man to mark when pride leaps up and straightway blight it. To show elation was to court calamity.
"Messer Gonzaga," returned Francesco, with an incomparable politeness, "I am an older man than are you, and maybe that I have seen more warring and more of such men. There is a certain valour lurks in that bully for all his blustering boastfulness and swagger, and there is, too, a certain sense of justice.
Not boastfulness and weakness, let us hope, or our poor Admiral will come off badly. Columbus was not far wrong in his estimate of the effect likely to be produced by his manacles, and when the ships of Villegio arrived at Cadiz in October, the spectacle of an Admiral in chains produced a degree of commiseration which must have exceeded his highest hopes.
"Then you have resided here for some time?" said Nigel. "Yes, for many years," replied the hermit, in a low, sad tone. "But is it wise in you to stay if you think an explosion so likely? Don't you needlessly run considerable risk?" "I do not fear to die." Nigel looked at his new friend in surprise, but there was not a shadow of boastfulness or affectation either in his look or tone.
No boastfulness!" cried Obenreizer. "You tax yourself too heavily. You tax yourself, my faith! as if you was your Government taxing you! Besides, it commenced with me. I remember, that evening in the boat upon the lake, floating among the reflections of the mountains and valleys, the crags and pine woods, which were my earliest remembrance, I drew a word-picture of my sordid childhood.
For if I made an enemy of the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache by humbling him in the eyes of the one woman before whom he sought to shine, I established a bond 'twixt Roxalanne and myself by that same humiliation of a foolish coxcomb, whose boastfulness had long wearied her. In the days that followed I saw much of the Chevalier de Saint-Eustache.
To tell the truth, I think there's a man or two wanted in England just now, who has had a practical experience of our colonies. Drake spoke without the least trace of boastfulness, but in a tone of quiet self-reliance, and Clarice had a thrill of intuition that he would not have said so much as that to any one but herself. Clarice began to play again, this time a waltz tune.
But while each child may play to win, his future welfare demands that his efforts be in harmony with certain principles. He must respect the rules of the game. 2. He must "play fair." 3. He must control anger, jealousy, boastfulness, and other of the more elemental emotions. 4. He must consider the handicaps suffered by some players, and see that they get a "square deal."
Exasperated by the persistent boastfulness of Langdon, Porter was angered into saying, "If he beats my mare, I'll give you that for him myself." "Done!" snapped Langdon. "I've said it, an' I'll stick to it." "I don't want the horse " began Porter; but Langdon interrupted him. "Oh, if you want to crawl." "I never crawl," said Porter fiercely.
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