" "Yes, I know, Maud and Flo do brag awfully now and then; but they are nice girls, and it is a nice family, mamma says.

" After a few moments' deep thought: "Say, ma, then don't you think they'd be lots more surprised if you did take us all?" SWIMMERS Two negro roustabouts at New Orleans were continually bragging about their ability as long distance swimmers and a steamboat man got up a match.

Imperii Romani majestas, et fortuna interiit, et profligata est; The fortune and majesty of the Roman Empire decayed and vanished, as that heathen in Minutius formerly bragged, when the Jews were overcome by the Romans, the Jew's God was likewise captivated by that of Rome; and Rabsakeh to the Israelites, no God should deliver them out of the hands of the Assyrians.

Sady, George's servant, made preparations to follow his master, bragging incessantly of the deeds which he would do; while Gumbo, Harry's boy, pretended to whimper at being left behind, though at home Gumbo was anything but a fire-eater.

We are supposed seriously to wrap ourselves in our own conceit, and to brag intolerably of our exploits.

38, like Diogenes, intus gloriantur, they brag inwardly, and feed themselves fat with a self-conceit of sanctity, which is no better than hypocrisy.

Lastly, he brags that his great houses are repaired to his hands when churches go to ruin, and those are prisons.

Three was their dinner hour; it was not yet four, yet already the young lord was flushed and a little flustered, talked fast, swore at Jarvey, and bragged of the girl lightly and without reserve.

To brag little,to showwell,to crow gently, if in luck,to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man, and I can't say that I think we have shown them in any great perfection of late.

"He'll niver brag of his campaigns ag'in to the likes of me, seeing that I've outdone him, tenay, forty times, and boot.

They threaten readily, and they boast and brag more readily still.

The victor always bragged savagely of his prowess, often leaping on a stump, crowing and flapping his arms.

Unconsciously he will brag and glow over that conquest wherein lay greatest peril to himwhen he had nothing but his naked hands.

Bes'sus a cowardly bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil or Vincent de la Rosa.