He wasn't as big as an ox, but a two-year-old that could match him, could brag of a pretty rapid growth.

He bragged about the news that day to the boys at school; told them how he was going to live with his grandpapa, his father's father, not the one who comes here sometimes; and that he would be very rich, and have a carriage, and a pony, and go to a much finer school, and when he was rich he would buy Leader's pencil-case, and pay the tart woman.

Our honesty with the Indians was little to brag on. GRANDMOTHER: You fret more about the Indians than anybody else does.

" "I don't know," muttered Pennington, who didn't intend to make the mistake of bragging in advance.

He ought to be back any minute if he 'ain't stopped to brag with old man Gredel that our arbutus beats his."

He tells his story like an old man, past political service, bragging to his sons on winter evenings of the part he took in public transactions when "his old cap was new."

All the men of the different commands were bragging as to their respective merits in the battle, and the feats performed by the different commanders.

I think you're bragging without cause if you claim any engaging and picturesque absence of character.

Then you come in like Julius Caesar, and brag like blazes, and offer him twenty pounds' worth of industry and ability, and above all arithmetic, and he will say he has no opening (and that is a lie), and offer you fifteen shillings, perhaps.

"Nuthin' t' brag uv," he answered.

It is an expression of the health and soundness of Nature, a brag for all the world,healthiness as of a spring burst forth, a new fountain of the Muses, to celebrate this last instant of time.