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"'Well, I said, 'the reason I'm so successful is because I can beat anybody." "Now aren't you getting a little carried away with your bragging?" asked Nibbles. "I mean, I'm very much enjoying your story, even though I know little about baseball except that you play it on a bass drum. But really, I think you're carrying your pride a little too far into the negative."
From the conversation he could but judge that all Belgium and northern France were to be made German. This seemed simple and inevitable through all the blustering and bragging. England America did not appear to cut any figure. They had no armies, hence they were negligible.
I was only bragging do you hear? I lied! I lied don't move, I swear to God I lied. I've made myself out worse than I was. I have. Only don't leave me now and if I die and it's not far off, may be get me away from here and from them. Swear it!" "All right," said the young man, with a scarcely concealed movement of irritation. "But get up now, and go back to the cabin." "No; not there alone."
Only at a bird, do you say? he heaved out in a voice of thunder. 'I see your shoulders a-shaking, young madam. Now don't you provoke me with that laughing! By God, it won't do! 'Then go away! said Anne, changed from mirthfulness to irritation by his rough manner. 'I don't want your company, you great bragging thing! You are so touchy there's no bearing with you. Go away!
When Lafayette was wounded, with some of his bragging company, nothing would do but Doctor Moran must go with them to the hospital at Bethlehem; yes, and stay there, until the precious marquis was out of danger. I'll swear that he would not have done this for Washington he would have blustered about the poor fellows lying sick in camp.
Subordinate individuals, like Grafigni and De Loo, went up and down, bringing presents out of England for Alexander Farnese, and bragging that Parma and themselves could have peace whenever they liked to make it, and affirming that Leicester's opinions were of no account whatever.
While Vrikodara, O monarch, was uttering these words in a loud voice, thy fearless son of true prowess answered him, saying, "What use of such elaborate bragging? Fight me, O Vrikodara! O wretch of thy race, today I shall destroy thy desire of battle! Mean vermin as thou art, know that Duryodhana is not capable, like an ordinary person, of being terrified by a person like thee!
"They are white, golden-haired, terrible in the fierceness of their eyes, greedy of quarrels, bragging and insolent.
But, I guess many reasons influenced his conduct in bragging of his riches and my honourable poverty; but, as I have often said, and with honest pride, what I have is my own: it never cost the widow a tear, or the nation a farthing. I got what I have with my pure blood, from the enemies of my country.
"They are white, golden-haired, terrible in the fierceness of their eyes, greedy of quarrels, bragging and insolent.
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