"Vauntingly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.]; vainglorious &c (conceited) 880; highfalutin, highfaluting^; spread- eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. vaunted &c v.. Adv. vauntingly &c adj.. Phr. let the galled jade wince [Hamlet]; facta non ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps, pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the ...
— Poems Every Child Should Know - The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library • Various |
