vauntful

How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

When the prima-donna of some vauntful city trills her bird-song above the foot-lights, or the cremona moans out the sigh of night-winds through the forest, artificial townsfolk applaud.

Lords of the North 1903

M'Clellan is now safe, under the protection of the gun-boats, which have again proved of the utmost value in the strangest campaign on record, is probably true; but the contrast between the vauntful promises and the almost piteous reference to the last date at which guns were lost is very significant.

London, Saturday, July 26, 1862 1862

"Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you so often make vauntful mention, can those isles, good Samoa, furnish a valley in all respects equal to Willamilla?"

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Vivenza were perhaps too much inclined to carry a vauntful crest.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

Her screams are answered by the vauntful cries of a hawk; his red comb yet reeking with slaughter.

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855

How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet,

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

I expected such a letter notwithstanding the vauntful prophecies of Old Batchelorship.

Letter 161 1796

And after journeying for a long time, we come at last to the confines of the great eternity, in sight of the two courts of the vauntful King of Death -- one to the right, the other to the left, but very far apart from one another as there lay an immense void between them.

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702

Forgive, fair Thames, the fong of truth that pays To Tago's emprefs-ftream fuperior praifej O'er every vauntful river be it thine To boafl the guardian fhield of laws divine;

Almada hill: an epistle from Lisbon 1781