He was bragging a good deal" Old Heck's eyes flashed and the mirth left them.

He seems to know somehow that no longer has the law any interest in his old carcass, and begins to brag a bit of the wild days up and down the forks of the American and of his own share in it all; half lies and the other half blood-dripping truth, I'd swear.

"He wouldn't hurt a fly," bragged the farmer.

Stinking'st of the stinking kind, Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind, Africa, that brags her foyson, Breeds no such prodigious poison, Henbane, nightshade, both together, Hemlock, aconite Nay, rather, Plant divine, of rarest virtue; Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.

" "All due to my influence and training," bragged the Bonnie Lassie.

Besides, they were very unkind and disagreeable, and bragged a lot about their divorces.

Then Sidney Ormond's fame would have been secure, for they would be always sending out relief expeditions after him, and not finding him, while I would be growing old on the boards, and bragging what a great man my friend Sidney Ormond was.

Justice Shallow brags that he once personated Sir Dagonet, while he was a student at Clement's Inn.Shakespeare, 2 Henry IV. act ii.

How thinkest thou she will take such imprisonment?" "She will be angry, but so proud she will not petition for freedom; she may even brag 'tis to her liking to be so rid of thee.

The inborn desire for praise and recognition may express itself in bragging vanity, or expand into heroic endeavor.

Phil rowed her over the river, bragging all the way of the manner in which he was beginning to handle the oars.

On her father's side Louise has just as much to brag aboutan' no more.

English When I'de move pittie; when dissemble, Irish; Dutch when I reele; and tho I feed on scalions If I should brag Gentility I'de gabble Welch.'

Garcias ab Horto brags how many desperate cures he hath done upon melancholy men by this alone, when all physicians had forsaken them.