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Swashbuckler   Listen
noun
Swashbuckler  n.  A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.





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"Swashbuckler" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he persisted in making a noise, informed him that he must either be quiet or go out. "Put me out!" said Burbery, striking an attitude. Mr. Bradlaugh left the platform and walked up to the noisy swashbuckler, who at once grappled with him and tried to throw him; but Mr. Burbery had not reckoned on his opponent's strength, and when the "throw" was complete Mr. Burbery was underneath. Amid much excitement Mr. Burbery was propelled to the ...
— Autobiographical Sketches • Annie Besant
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... and tell my aunt that the last he saw of me I was adrift on the Hudson River in a barge with a policeman and a swashbuckler from ...
— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy
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... neither on the industrial magnates of Milan nor on their Bol[vs]evik antagonists. Giolitti was resolved to put an end to the nuisance of d'Annunzio; in no constitutional State is there room for a Prime Minister and such a swashbuckler. The Nationalists of Italy were furious when they perceived that the Premier was in earnest and that force would be employed against their idol. And it had to come to that, for the utterly misguided man ...
— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein
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Words linked to "Swashbuckler" :   adventurer, harum-scarum, tearaway, daredevil, hothead, venturer, lunatic


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