92 collocations for flaunt

For when God's smile was with us we were strong To go like sudden lightning to our mark: As on that summer day when Saladin Passing in scorn our host at Antioch, Who spent the days in revel, and shamed the stars With nightly scandalcame with all his host, Its gay battalia brave with saffron silks, Flaunting the banners of the Caliphate Beneath the walls of fair Jerusalem:

Spain and Portugal now took the lead and were running races against each other, the one in the Western, the other in the Eastern seas, and flaunting their crowned flags in monopoly of the Indian archipelagos and the American tropics.

And, well, Jack, there is no use of being sensitive about it, though I understand your indignationespecially after he flaunted the fact of the resemblance in such a manner and refused to meet you.

It is a bitter experience to see the woman who has stepped down into the soil of life flaunting her finery and her power in the face of virtue.

In dusty pods the milkweed Its hidden silk has spun; The sedges flaunt their harvest In every meadow nook, And asters by the brookside Make asters in the brook; From dewy lanes at morning The grapes' sweet odors rise; At noon the roads all flutter With yellow butterflies By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

And prudent Miss Wither Not in jest now doth wither, And soon must gowhither Nor I well, nor you know; And flaunting Miss Waller, That soon must befal her,

"What have I done?" "Shot down two men; played like an actor on a stage a couple of times at least, if I must be blunt; hunted danger likelike a reckless madman; dared all The Corner to cross you; flaunted the red rag in the face of the bull.

Gravitation would presently pull down my shoulders, my face would flaunt "the wrinkled spoils of age", my voice would waver ominously, and I should forfeit the dignities befitting even this decay by still playing childish games of belief with some foolish dog.

I do not wish to excuse my conduct, but I cannot help saying that Marshall showed me neither consideration nor pity; he did not even seem to understand that I was suffering, that my nerves had been terribly shaken, and he flaunted his superiority relentlessly in my facehis good looks, his talents, his popularity.

When the twentieth morning came over the hills, the mist parted over the Stars and Bars floating from the top of a tall poplar up through the Gap and flaunting brave defiance to Black Tom, his Harlan Home Guard, and all other jay-hawking Unionists of the Kentucky hills.

Her message to me, posted in San Francisco, where Dicky was, flaunted its insolent triumph again before my eyes: "She laughs best who laughs last.

She was Hohenzollern, claiming to be Caesar, and flaunting a flat black eagle borrowed from Imperial Rome; and also she was the most scientific and socialist of states.

The "Red Republic" openly flaunted its colors and hopes.

For when God's smile was with us we were strong To go like sudden lightning to our mark: As on that summer day when Saladin Passing in scorn our host at Antioch, Who spent the days in revel, and shamed the stars With nightly scandalcame with all his host, Its gay battalia brave with saffron silks, Flaunting the banners of the Caliphate Beneath the walls of fair Jerusalem:

He rode out of the city one early morning in September, facing to the south over the rolling valley that lay between the hills now flaunting their first autumn colours.

She had more than once been overheard informing one of the cronies she used to meet on the boulevards that she was a religious woman, but she could not abide priests, that she said her prayers at home, and these were every bit as good as the fine ladies' who flaunted their crinolines in church.

That she had not flaunted the newspaper cutting before the eyes of others in the house also shows that the accident of the moment and her hot anger had, in the one instance only, overcome her caution.

He didn't go flaunting his white gown in people's faces every Saint's day he could trump up, let alone the Wednesday and Friday services.

Shall it flaunt its death where sad eyes may see In the cold dank wind of our memory?

Nor did he mark less that in the air, "A thousand streamers flaunted fair, Various in shape, device and hue, Green, sanguine, purple, red, and blue, Broad, narrow, swallow-tailed, and square, Scroll, pennon, pensil, bandrol, there O'er the pavilions flew.

The capes of their mackintoshes seemed to flaunt a satirical farewell in her face; their owners, following the light of the carriage lamps, swept from view around a bend in the road.

This is a lying spirit, sly and sinister, Its promise false, its loud incitements vain. Not to your true advantage shall it minister, Mere Goblin Gold its glittering show of Gain: Spectre of Chaos and the Abyss, it flutters Before you flaunting high its foolish fire,

Had she intended to flaunt his folly in his face, or had she believed he still mourned for it and deemed its recovery a sufficient reward for his slight service?

He seemed to fear that he had flaunted his fortune in her face.

There was a womanindeed, there was invariably a woman, though not always the samewhose flaunting friendship with the Prince had fixed Angela's resolve to turn her back on the old life.

92 collocations for  flaunt