The boaster had almost succeeded in remounting his horse, when he was secured round the neck by Rustem's own kamund, and conveyed a prisoner to the Persian army, where he was put to death!

Rustem grasped him with such vigor, lifted him up in his arms, and dashed him so furiously on the plain, that the boaster seemed to be killed on the spot.

The new-comer paused near the platform on which the boaster stood and gazed at him in wonder.

Having humbled the boaster, the man with the cheese and mop descended from the platform, threw away his weapons and advanced toward the youth who had been an amazed spectator of the scene.

The most intellectual of the reformers abhorred the deification of the reason, and clung to that exalted supernaturalism which was the life and hope of blessed saints and martyrs in bygone ages, and which in "their contests with mail-clad infidelity was like the pebble which the shepherd of Israel hurled against the disdainful boaster who defied the power of Israel's God."

Soon as they reach The insulting boaster, his false courage fails, Behind he lags, doomed to the fatal noose, 80 His master's hate, and scorn of all the field.

exultation; gloriation^, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph &c 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^; blusterer &c 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c (fop) 854.

Blusterer N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer^, brawler; fanfaron^; braggart &c (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U.S.], hoodlum, hooligan [Slang], larrikin^, roarer

[Footnote 90: "This was the boaster Rai Durlabh Ram, who had already received much from me, but all the treasures of the Universe could not have freed him from the fear he felt at having to fight the English.

do ye depart in peace, or wish ye that we should try the temper of our Border steel upon your French bucklers?" "Depart ye in peace, vain boaster," replied D'Arcy, "lest a worse thing befall you.

" "I'll let it be as you claim it, you boaster, but what noise is that now?

Bluff (Captain Noll), a swaggering bully and boaster.

BRAG (Jack), a vulgar boaster, who gets into good society, where his vulgarity stands out in strong relief.

" "I swear to you it is true!" whispered the lithe boaster, with a gleeful quiver from head to foot.

The latter were loud in praise of my generosity, and of the skill which I had shown in beating that boaster; the former asked me to dine with him, and I often went to his house and became very intimate with him, and obtained from him much information, especially such as had reference to my purpose.

He was a great boaster, toohe'd tell us, without a blush, of the most desperate things he'd done, and of how brave he'd been.

They weren't sorry to see puir Jock shown up for the liar and boaster he was.

However this may be, we have Washington's own word for it, that his flour was as good in quality as any manufactured in Americaand he was no boaster.

"Lennox, listen to this vain boaster!"

It was the pitiful defiance of a boaster hopelessly hurt.

She is too good to be ruined by that coarse-tongued boaster!

I have heretofore discoursed of the insignificant Liar, the Boaster, and the Castle-Builder, and treated them as no ill-designing Men, (tho' they are to be placed among the frivolously false ones) but

Me, I am glad that boaster must do something more than crow upon the thatch, Valencia!"

"Boaster that he is, look you how he stands!

I shall become more modest, I hope, when I shall have a better right to be a boaster.