braggart's

Updated: June 21, 2025

Finding that Captain O'Neill had fallen deeply into debt, he bought up the braggart's mortgages, turned him out of the Big House, and took up his own abode in it. Twelve months later he made amends, after his own manner, by marrying one of the Captain's daughters. There were two of them.

Sir Hall Caine - The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill

That may wait; and, what is more, shall wait till Strike their swords down, Raleigh, Mackworth! Strike their swords down! We shall proceed to deliberate on your fate." "I trust, my lord," said Amyas, "that you will spare this braggart's life, at least for a day or two.

Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth

Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that threatened to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the boasting errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's audacity. He slyly expressed a doubt, however, that the valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha had let himself be vanquished by any living being.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - The Story of Don Quixote

There's only one thing I'm sorry about and that is that I must go away without playing Scheckennarre a trick that he'd remember to the end of his days." "That's the true braggart's way! That's the real way to ruin!" cried Barefoot; "to go off and leave a feeling of revenge behind one! Look, over yonder lie our parents. Come with me come with me to their graves and say that again there if you can.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English

Yet it was easy to see that Raffles had accepted the braggart's boast as a challenge. Nor did he deny it later when I taxed him with his mad resolve; he merely refused to allow me to implicate myself in its execution. Well, there was a spice of savage satisfaction in the thought that Raffles had been obliged to turn to me in the end.

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures

We will open our own columns to his poems, which must be piquant indeed, to judge by the following specimen obligingly communicated by a friend of the author." So for a while they suffered it to stay; But with such insolence it flourished there, That, out of patience with its braggart's air, They bade it prove its claims without delay.

Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions