1 She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her.
2 The expression of his eye contradicted his figurative and boastful language, while every muscle in his wrinkled visage was working with anguish.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 3 Over his soiled countenance there went a boastful smile.
4 They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done.
5 A hearty kissing I got for a welcome, and some boastful triumph, which I swallowed as well as I could.
6 I knew he was certain to say something of this kind; he always would be so boastful about his difficulties.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 7 daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a.
8 Next to her I saw Antiope, daughter to Asopus, who could boast of having slept in the arms of even Jove himself, and who bore him two sons Amphion and Zethus.
9 The east had its own charm or fine deep blue, and its own modest gem, a casino and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon.
10 My father said nothing about her money; but he told me Miss Mason was the boast of Spanish Town for her beauty: and this was no lie.
11 Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
12 Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.
13 It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
14 As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either.
15 Neither have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.