" "One finds objectionable swaggerers everywhere," Painswick put in.

But confront one of these silent heroes with the swaggerer of real life, and his confidence in the theory quickly vanishes.

A tattler and a swaggerer, having elicited, as he thought, from Catherine that she was the destined heiress of Mr. Allen, he twice endeavoured to detach her, by a glaring lie, from keeping engagements with the Tilneys; and when he did succeed in persuading her to go with him in his gig, she found that the whole of his talk ended with himself and his own concerns.

we swaggerers, That live by oaths and big-mouth'd menaces, Are now reputed for the tallest men: He that hath now a black moustachio, Reaching from ear to ear, or turning up, Puncto reverso, bristling towards the eye; He that can hang two handsome tools at his side, Go in disguis'd attire, wear iron enough, Is held a tall man and a soldier.

O, this same swaggerer is The bulwark of my reputation; but, Mistress Splay, now to your lecture that you promised me.

take a better spirit; Be not so timorous to rehearse your wrongs: I say, your husband haunts bad company, Swaggerers, cheaters, wanton courtesans; There he defiles his body, stains his soul, Consumes his wealth, undoes himself and you In danger of diseases, whose vile names Are not for any honest mouths to speak, Nor any chaste ears to receive and hear.

Enough, Furor, we know thou art a nimble swaggerer with a goose-quill.

how have I been troubled these latter times with women, fools, babes, tailors, poets, swaggerers, gulls, ballad-makers!

Again, these prodigal swaggerers that are so much bound to their creditors, if they have but one cross about them, they'll spend it in wine upon Oblivio.

Genius of all swaggerers, professed enemy to physicians, sweet ointment for sour teeth, firm knot of good fellowship, adamant of company, swift wind to spread the wings of time, hated of none but those that know him not, and of so great deserts that, whoso is acquainted with him can hardly forsake him.

the soldier, the fop, the coxcomb and swaggerer!" laughed the Squire.

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

" Osrades warms up to that, but does not set out ruffian-swaggerer.

A few pages further on (p. 104) appears the incident of a swaggerer who enters the royal vault of Westminster Abbey at dead of night on a wager, and having the tail of his coat twitched by the knife he has stuck in the ground, is frightened into a fainta story which Mrs. Haywood later retold in different words in her "Female Spectator."

There's so many swaggerers; but alasse, how fel ye out? Scil.

Bardolph is a bravo, but great humorist; he is a lowbred, drunken swaggerer, wholly without principle, and always poor.

Do not carry your cloak over your arm after the manner of swaggerers.