1 You look very presentable now," she said, "and I don't think anyone will suspect you've been up to your tricks unless you brag about them.
2 And have to listen to them brag about how popular their daughters were.
3 He didn't even die in a fine glow of gallantry in battle, so she could brag about him.
4 Gerald's letter was so full of brag and bluster as to how the Yankees had been driven from the railroad that one would have thought he personally had accomplished the feat, single handed.
5 HE would get on well enough if she'd let him alone; they like his slang and his brag and his blunders.
6 We will leave them to smoke and chatter and brag, since we have no further use for them at present.
7 Agelaus shouted to them and said, "My friends, he will soon have to leave off, for Mentor has gone away after having done nothing for him but brag."
8 The sight of a man lying wearied out with hard work, as your husband lay, made me feel that to brag of my own fortune to you would be greatly out of place.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil 9 Did it very well, too, no doubt, and without thinking much about it either, except afterwards to brag of what he had gone through in his time, perhaps.
10 I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he's lost and will come back in a rage.
11 He was obviously convinced, especially now after drinking, that he was performing a heroic action, and he bragged of it in the most unpleasant way.
12 And now she bragged about how good she had been.
13 I kinder knew I'd want to take a ride to-night, Eady, in his triumph, tried to put a sentimental note into his bragging voice.
14 Don't go bragging on me in front of folks.
15 But this was worse-- these low common creatures living in this house, bragging to their low common friends how they had turned the proud O'Haras out.