Which preposition to use with bravado
It looked rather like the bravado of a man who lived for the sake of fighting.
When Edward sent him a herald to claim the crown of France, and to carry him a defiance in case of refusal, so far from answering to this bravado in like haughty terms, he replied with great temper, and even made the herald a considerable present.
Any needless display of bravado on your part would be equally foolish.
A large party of the enemy's cavalrymore, it must be supposed, in a spirit of bravado than anything elsecharged up the road towards the Flagstaff Tower, waving their swords and shouting, "Din! din!"
The braves drank, flung a few shots in bravado toward the wagons, and presently took themselves off.
For, one day, a band of valiant men of Thurgau, incited by the bailiff from Uri, had tried to surprise the city, in order to punish her for her bravadoes against the Swiss.
"I've been full of bravado with Paula, telling her how soon I was going to be back in harness again; cock-sure and domineering as ever, so that she'd better make hay while the sun shone.
"The guard can hear" "Oh, that's all right," returned Jack, urged perhaps to a conscious bravado by the very weakness of the other.
This was more bravado from the urchin.