For instance: there is a difference between a thinking man and a man thinking; between a bragging fellow and a fellow bragging; between a fast-sailing ship and a ship sailing fast.

that will see all his soldiers go before him and come post principia, like the bragging soldier, last himself; when other helps fail in inveterate melancholy, in a desperate case, this vomit is to be taken.

We got near a couple of antelope and Mr. Bradford, who was a brag shot and had the best gun, proposed to kill them as we stood.

Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.

She had always observed that people are inclined to believe bragging advertisements, though they openly profess that they can't be taken in by them.

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

Yet Eberhard's worth, ye bragging carles!

Here am I, I say, doing my best to keep 'em quiet, and there's Sir John Johnson and all that bragging crew from Guy Park combating menay, would you believe their impudence?striving to win me to arm my tenantry for this King of England, who has done nothing for me, save to make a knight of me to curry favor with the Dutch patroons in New York provinceor state, as they call it now!

Then came a numbing fear that Beauregard's bragging host had fled, and that the movement would turn out a tedious stern chase to Richmond.

His breast is like a gentlewoman's closet, which locks up every toy or trifle, or some bragging mountebank that makes every stinking thing a secret.

There is certainly a bragging spirit of generosity, a swaggering assertion of independence, and all that, in his writings.

That fellow has come up here to be able to go back and play brag-game.

Let bragging travellers come in April and hold us with tales of the Anthropopagi!

He was younger by ten years, I should say, than either Von Heeringen or Von Zwehl; too young, I judged, to have got his training in the blood- and-iron school of Bismarck and Von Moltke of which the other two must have been brag-scholars.