3465 examples of boasts in sentences

Upon him, as he uttered these boasts, Romulus made an attack with a band of his bravest youths.

It is a large place, and boasts a fine mosque, but contains nothing worth seeing.

One can't help but wonder if the power she boasts is not principally on paper.

In spite of Jerrold's boasts, Nick's instinct had told him after the first words exchanged that the man was not only a cad, but a rank pretender.

As a child they had admired her assertiveness, had made Apex ring with their boasts of it; but it had long since cowed Mrs. Spragg, and it was beginning to frighten her husband.

One thing only we grudge to mankind: when a hero, unthankful, Boasts of our gifts as his own, stiffnecked, and dishonours the givers, Turning our weapons against us.

Blest day, which aye reminds us, year by year, What 'tis to be a man: to curb and spurn The tyrant in us; that ignobler self Which boasts, not loathes, its likeness to the brute, And owns no good save ease, no ill save pain, No purpose, save its share in that wild war In which, through countless ages, living things Compete in internecine greed.

Are these thy boasts, Champion of human kind?

It boasts a streamlet dignified with the name of the river Tiber, and this streamlet is of the size and much the appearance of a vein in a dirty man's arm.

"Of course, if he were genuinely what he pretends to be and the things he boasts were true...." "Oh, he's genuine enough," said Paula.

God's child in Christ adopted,Christ my all, What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit the blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father? Father!

In 1791, this Society sent a memorial to Congress, from which the following is an extract: "From a sober conviction of the unrighteousness of slavery, your petitioners have long beheld, with grief, our fellow men doomed to perpetual bondage, in a country which boasts of her freedom.

Tranquilla scorned to detain any part of her fortune from him into whose hands she delivered up her person; and Hymenæus thought no act of baseness more criminal than his who enslaves his wife by her own generosity, who by marrying without a jointure, condemns her to all the dangers of accident and caprice, and at last boasts his liberality, by granting what only the indiscretion of her kindness enabled him to withhold.

No vanity can more justly incur contempt and indignation than that which boasts of negligence and hurry.

But the negroes, so dogmatically pronounced unfit for freedom, were in this respect models for those who make high boasts of civility of manners and Christian culture.

Cuddy, a shepherd, who boasts that the charms of his Buxo'ma far exceed those of Blouzelinda.

But now they by their own vain boasts were tied, And forced at least in show to prize it more.

Criticism on the conduct of the campaign from one who boasts that he has never stood upon a recruiting platform lacks sincerity.

He does not speak much generally, and never boasts of anything he has done.

In which the bold compiler boasts no merit, But that his pains have sav'd you scenes of spirit.

The judgment of the House of Lords in my favour is final and conclusive, and the boasts of the Tories that I should be made bankrupt for the penalties, have now, for ever, come to naught.

The only conspicuous landmark visible in approaching the anchorage is the Jail: rather a singular pharos for a settlement in Australia, which boasts its uncontaminated state.

One was describing with much gesticulation the abundance of the game in the neighborhood, and he seemed greatly delighted at receiving a quantity of ammunition, with which he instantly departed to make good his boasts in the matter.

The central village, called Markova, is the residence of the priest and boasts a small rudely built church, but in winter it is a dreary place.

Who wins boasts.

3465 examples of  boasts  in sentences