The alternate baldness and exuberant, decorated, swaggering boldness (for Charlotte's style was never bolder than when she was essaying the impossible) alone betrayed the hand of an innocent woman.

He swaggered up and down the Paris boulevards showing his tombstone teeth and staring at the women.

His design was to lash the follies and vices of the day, and his dramatis personæ consisted for the most part of gulls, impostors, fops, cowards, swaggering braggarts, and "Pauls men."

" Then swaggering half a hair's breadth, hungrily He seized upon an atom of bug and fed.

BELCH, SIR TOBY, a reckless, jolly, swaggering character in "Twelfth Night.

Many silly gentlewomen are fetched over in like sort, by a company of gulls and swaggering companions, that frequently belie noblemen's favours, rhyming Coribantiasmi, Thrasonean Rhadomantes or Bombomachides, that have nothing in them but a few player's ends and compliments, vain braggadocians, impudent intruders, that can discourse at table of knights and lords' combats, like

You know what a fine, swaggering fellow he was, and the sky-blue uniform of the Tenth suited him to a marvel.

But in every country there are overbearing, swaggering folk, and even in quiet, sleepy Ashford we were plagued by them.

I join them now," and the squat broad-shouldered figure rolled away with swinging, swaggering gait.

Altogether he was as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six in his bluchers.

" "'What hempen homespun have we swaggering here?'"

I regret to add that there was also a Lady, that she was garbed for riding in the style affected by mere man, and that she swaggered loud-voiced, horsey, slapping a boot.

Casey paid for the socks and slid the change for a ten-dollar bill into his overalls pocket, put the check book and the bank notes away where he had carried the check, and walked out with his hat very much tilted over his right eye and his shoulders swaggering a little.

It was difficult to be patient with those swaggering young officers who gave the glad eye to girls whose sweethearts lay dead somewhere between the French and German trenches.

"Swaggering ruffians from the disreputable haunts of London" "were not the men to be intrusted with the honor of England at a momentous crisis."

Too much of the plum cake and rewards of life fall to that boisterous, swaggering young scapegrace.

They swaggered down the streets of Malolos, clashing their swords behind them, and they knew that if they won, the Philippines would be divided into fiefs which they, as dukes and marquises, would hold in feudal tenure from a Malay potentate.

* Dave swaggered up the walk, a gay and gallant figure in his blue cutaway coat, his waistcoat of most legible plaid, fit ground for the watch chain of heavy golden links.

The other passengers, a hazy and quite uninteresting lot, quickly went down; all save one, a coarse, swaggering youth with too much self-possession whom I need not name.