334 examples of flaunting in sentences

Then Beltane, hasting back soft-treading, stood to peer through the leaves, and presently, his cock's-comb flaunting, his silver bells a-jingle, there stepped a mountebank into the clearingthat same jester with whom Beltane had talked aforetime.

It really was a very brilliant spectacle, especially as there were numerous banners flaunting over the cavalcade, on some of which were gorgeous portraits of the illustrious statesman and the Great Stone Face, smiling familiarly at one another, like two brothers.

Both mother and daughter had been stupefied and frightened by the boldness of the daughter's initiative, by her amazing, flaunting disregard of filial decency.

Once I remember being on the box of the Holyhead mail, between Shrewsbury and Oswestry, when a tawdry thing from Birmingham, some Tallyho or Highflier, all flaunting with green and gold, came up alongside of us.

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.

Why ain't she at home attending to that crippled boy of herspoor little beggar!instead of flaunting through America meddling with other folk's children?" Miss Hugonin put another lump of sugar into his cup and deigned no reply.

Flaunting and flirting to and fro, women recalled what pleasure was.

On the point there was a great mob, composed mostly of students, who were yelling and cheering and flaunting their flags.

Every street of it is converted into a green alley, embowered with young pine-trees, and flaunting with banners temporarily constructed out of all available pieces of dry-goods, lent by the devoted shop-keepers of the olden Church.

This happened in the French division of the place, which, of course, was decorated to the utmost ability of the people in honor of the fête: and so palpable was the gloom cast over all by the circumstance, that the bright flannels flaunting from the cordons stretched across the way seemed to darken into palls, and the gay red streamers must have appeared to the subdued carnival spirits as warning crape-knots on the door-handle of death.

Then bring me not the blossoms young, That erst on Flora's forehead hung; But round thy radiant temples twine, The flowers whose flaunting mocks at mine.

And there rides Ney with his red head, and Lefebvre with his bulldog jaw, and Lannes with his Gascon swagger; and then amidst the gleam of brass and the flaunting feathers I catch a glimpse of him, the man with the pale smile, the rounded shoulders, and the far-off eyes.

It ne'er displays the vain desire To dress in flaunting gay attire; No purple, scarlet, blue, or gold, Deck its fair leaves when they unfold.

Should the mechanic's labor cease, 'Twould wound their pridedestroy their peace; Their flaunting garments, light and frail, Would quickly fade, wear out and fail.

I never grudged, whate'er my foes report, Your flaunting fortune in the Lion's court.

He was leaning against the door of the school-house,a red, flaunting house, the daub on the landscape: but, having his back to it, he could not see it, so through his half-shut eyes he suffered the beauty of the scene to act on him.

And always now he would see the hand with the silver bracelet at the wrist, flaunting in his face the shivering strands of gold with the crimson patch at the end.

Then bring me not the blossoms young, That erst on Flora's forehead hung; But round thy radiant temples twine, The flowers whose flaunting mocks at mine.

" "What uncle?" "The gentleman down in Hertfordshire, on the strength of whose acres Master Harry is flaunting it about in idleness.

Something within his own nature protested against the flaunting of such an act, though the act itself carried no offence to his childish mind.

Amelia fixed upon the flaunting rose, Charlotte the modest mignonette.

The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's[084] maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield[085] O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie[086] stibble field[087] Unseen, alane.

His fingers are not dripping with dynamite, neither is he spitting upon your flag, nor flaunting the red banner of anarchy in your face.

" Here's to the maid of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant queen; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.

Thy beavers and martens, honest burgher, will be flaunting in the presence of the Emperor, at the next holidays.

334 examples of  flaunting  in sentences