"Braggadocio" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bonneville purchased a supply of buffalo meat from his braggadocio friends; who, with all their vaporing, were in fact a very forlorn horde, destitute of firearms, and of almost everything that constitutes riches in savage life. The bargain concluded, the Bannacks set off for their village, ...
— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving
... Lopez was a noisy braggadocio. Last night we had some words whilst waiting near the gate of Donna Serafina. From words we came to weapons, and, by a lucky thrust, I sent his prying soul the devil knows where. His body ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat
... is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume. From the time of Xerxes downwards, we have seen generals playing the braggadocio at the outset of their campaigns, and conquering the enemy with the greatest ease in after-dinner speeches. But events are apt to be in disgusting discrepancy with the anticipations of the most ingenious tacticians; the difficulties of the expedition are ...
— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot
... whispered Sallust to Julia. 'If Vespius were made immortal, what a specimen of tiresome braggadocio would be ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
... smoked his tobacco and were pleased. But among the younger men there was a defiant attitude, a spirit of braggadocio, easily understood by the raw insinuations of the toothless squaws and the giggling of the maidens. They had known few white men, 'Sons of the Wolf,' but from those few they had ...
— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London
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