Which preposition to use with vaunts

of Occurrences 13%

They stand in the same category of theatrical inventions as the cry of the foundering Vengeur, as the vaunt of General Cambronne at Waterloo, "La Garde meurt, mais ne se rend pas," as the repartees of Talleyrand.]

in Occurrences 3%

The chaungfull turning of mens slipperie state, That none whom fortune freely doth advaunce 555 Himselfe therefore to heaven should elevate: For loftie type of honour through the glaunce Of envies dart is downe in dust prostrate, And all that vaunts in worldly vanitie Shall fall through fortunes mutabilitie.

as Occurrences 3%

One wonders that more of them did not imitate poor Paracelsus, who, unable to get a hearing for his coarse common sense, tookvain and sensualto drinking the laudanum which he himself had discovered, and vaunted as a priceless boon to men; and died as the fool dieth, in spite of all his wisdom.

amidst Occurrences 2%

Alternately dissolute and cruel, gay and vindictive, the Parisian vaunts amidst debauchery the triumph of assassination, and enlivens his midnight orgies by recounting the sufferings of the massacred aristocrates: women, whose profession it is to please, assume the bonnet rouge [red cap], and affect, as a means of seduction, an intrepid and ferocious courage.

to Occurrences 2%

"But to throw downe the walls and Gates of Rome To make an entrance for an Hobby-horse; To vaunt to th'people his ridiculous spoyles; To come with Lawrell and with Olyves crown'd For having been the worst of all the singers, Is beyond Patience!"

on Occurrences 1%

This is mere vaunting on the part of our neighbours, who seem to want la gloire in everything; and we should not deign to notice it, if it had occurred in a work of small pretensions; but M. Curmer's book professes to be a complete exposition of the scientific principles of cookery, and holds a high rank in the didactic literature of France.

over Occurrences 1%

"Perhaps, however, that might be regarded as vaunting over your comrades, who, I've no doubt, relax the tedium of war in temperate indulgence of some of these vices.

without Occurrences 1%

Now this does appear to me to be a most whimsical declaration; especially when I recollect, that before this debate commenced, it was knownit was not disguised, it was vaunted without scruple or reservethat the dispositions of those opposed to Ministers were most heroically warlike.

before Occurrences 1%

There was a soldier that vaunted before Julius Caesar, of the hurts he had received in his face.

Which preposition to use with  vaunts