"Rhodomontade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him from error still to contradictory error, to plunge him (as we say) deeper in the mire, and give him line till he suspend himself. No understanding reader could be imposed upon by such obvious rhodomontade to suspect me for an alien, or believe me other than English.—To a second Correspondent, who signs himself 'a Wiltshire man,' and claims me for a countryman upon the strength of an equivocal phrase in my 'Christ's Hospital,' a more mannerly reply is due. Passing over the Genoese fable, which ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... Therefore the rhodomontade of G L and S A, or great literary and scientific attainments, was equal to the braying of an ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... I please.—I shall judge of my son-in-law and Celestine by their conduct on my marriage; as they behave, so shall I. If they are nice to their stepmother, I will receive them. I am a man, after all!'—In short, all this rhodomontade! And an attitude like Napoleon ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
... proceedings were such as in every way became the dignity of the parties interested, and the magnitude of the interests involved. When the red men had indulged to satiety in tobacco-smoke from their peace-pipes, and in what they love still better—their peculiar metaphoric rhodomontade, which, beginning with the celestial bodies, and coursing downward over the grandest sublunary objects, always managed to alight at last on their "Great Father," Polk, and the tenderness with which his affectionate ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne |
