"Braggart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Monsieur," wrathfully, "you are acting like a fool or a boy. Women such as I am are not won in this braggart fashion. Certainly you must admit that I have something to say in regard to the disposition of my hand. And let me say this at once: I shall wed no man; and were either you or Monsieur le Comte the last man in the world, I should run away and ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath
... him from helping himself to his own; but people do not stay to weigh their words when they mean to be angry; the colonists had taken their side; and, with what I own to be a natural spirit and ardour, were determined to have a trial of strength with the braggart domineering mother country. Breed's Hill became a mountain, as it were, which all men of the American Continent might behold, with Liberty, Victory, Glory, on its flaming summit. These dreaded troops could ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... the darkness into the light at that moment, looking burly, and insolent, and braggart, ...
— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell
... of my wound I alone would cut that golden comb of thine, thou braggart; as it is, be sure that two shall ...
— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard
... go ter the party with me, Sally?" He came insolently over, and stood waiting, ignoring her dismissal with the ease of braggart effrontery. She, in turn, stood rigid, wordless, pointing his way across the doorstep. Slowly, the drunken face lost its leering grin. The eyes blackened into a truculent and venomous scowl. He stepped over, and stood towering ...
— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck
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