1 She was a conceited, boastful old thing, and even misfortune could not humble her.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII 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 CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 24 3 Over his soiled countenance there went a boastful smile.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 18 4 They were a vain and boastful company of heroes when the tale was done.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XV 5 A hearty kissing I got for a welcome, and some boastful triumph, which I swallowed as well as I could.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXV 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 DickensGet Context In CHAPTER 17. SOMEBODY TURNS UP 7 daughter when I could boast as high a name and vast a.
Little Women By Louisa May AlcottGet Context In CHAPTER TEN 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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXVII 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.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 34 12 Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 38 13 It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane AustenGet Context In Chapter 54 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.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER VII. 15 Neither have I forgotten how apt some travellers are to boast of extraordinary favours they have received.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER X.