braggadocia

The characters which appeared and disappeared before the amused and interested audience, were those which fill the earlier stage in all nations — old men, cheated by their wives and daughters, pillaged by their sons, and imposed on by their domestics, a braggadocia captain, a knavish pardoner or quaestionary, a country bumpkin and a wanton city dame.

The Abbot 2008

"Afraid, sir!" repeated Tompkins scornfully, with any amount of braggadocia.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

(Lige takes the Jack and sticks it up on his forehead in braggadocia.)

De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

He had been authorized to offer $1,300; but the Chippewas managed badly -- they knew nothing of thousands, or how the annuity would divide among so many, and were, in fact, cowed down by the braggadocia of the flattered Pillager war chief,

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

He had been authorized to offer $1,300; but the Chippewas managed badly -- they knew nothing of _thousands_, or how the annuity would divide among so many, and were, in fact, cowed down by the braggadocia of the flattered

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

I then endeavoured to discover from the captain where the leaks were, that we might stop them; but he had been drinking so freely, that I could get nothing from him but Dutch courage and braggadocia.

Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer Frederick Marryat 1820

This respectable officer had no braggadocia about him, but he intimated that it would not be long, as he thought, before the rovers among the islands would have their hands full.

Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820

Well for all of their braggadocia and hubris, what has it gotten this country, an ill-advised war based on fabricated intelligence and a near-bankrupt economy?

CNN Political Ticker 2009

Well for all of their braggadocia and hubris, what has it gotten this country, an ill-advised war based on fabricated intelligence and a near-bankrupt economy?

WordPress.com News 2009

a mountain of braggadocia; David a marvel of humility.

The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867