Of the sense of solitude, induced by his earliest impressions, he characteristically makes a boast.

They had felt the weight of the armed hand, and they must have heard the boast, filtering down from the officers to the men, and from the men to the native populace, that, having taken their country, the Germans meant to keep it; that Belgium, ceasing to be Belgium, would henceforth be set down on the map as a part of Greater Prussia.

When the massacre was over, the victors celebrated their triumph by a grand banquet, at which Gudrun, fulfilling her boast, actually presided as queen.

" Although Robert hoped and listened often in the dusk for the sound of a signal from Tayoga, Langlade made good his boast.

Upon him, as he uttered these boasts, Romulus made an attack with a band of his bravest youths.

Poets and philosophers echoed this boast over Europeand the serfs waited.

Unhallowed man, that scorn'st the sacred rede, Hark how the testimony of my truth Sounds heavenly music with an angel's hand, To testify Dunstan's integrity, And prove thy active boast of no effect.

'Tis madness to provoke superfluous danger, And cowardice to dread the boast of folly.

Still, the direction is onward, and though it may take time to carve on the social column of America that graceful and ornamental capital which it forms the just boast of Europe to possess, when the task shall be achieved, the work will stand on a base so broad as to secure its upright attitude for ages.

[Footnote 9: Compare the boast in Isaiah xxxvii.

O suns and skies and flowers of June, Count all your boasts together, Love loveth best of all the year October's bright blue weather.

And their accustomed performance is very much a matter of keen eye, keener scent, quick ear, and a better memory of sights and sounds than man dares boast.

The fit of wrath which burst within me, soon Shrunk up my heart as thin as the new moon; Else had I deemed thee still my army's boast, Source of my regal power, beloved the most, Unequalled.

As far as such proceedings can accomplish it, I am deprived of public confidence in the administration of the Government and denied even the boast of a good namea name transmitted to me from a patriot father, prized as my proudest inheritance, and carefully preserved for those who are to come after me as the most precious of all earthly possessions.

"This is fine talking, sir, but you are already losing the ship's way; and, before you have ended your boasts, she will be as fast in irons as a condemned thief.

Not only does the universal introduction of clothing tickets falsify this boast, but the cloth is found to be a mere makeshift when tested.

He could not forego the boast that he was the possessor of a magnificent ring, which had been given him by the ex-Emperor Napoleon III.

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name!

His own language indicates thishis suspicious boast of his knowledge of real love as of one who has just made a strange discovery, and his coupling it with the knowledge of Arabic.

After fighting all day, with intermissions to interchange boasts and taunts, and to indulge in sundry discussions, neither had gained any advantage.

The incident justifies his boast, long afterwards, of his moderation when the treasures of Bengal were at his mercy.

Lo! Tartar hordes our happy realms invade; The tottering state requires thy powerful aid; A youthful Champion leads the ruthless host, His savage country's widely-rumoured boast.

I always liked that boast of Flaccus about his "monument harder than brass."

Waring listened for some hint, some crazy boast as to the whereabouts of the stolen money.

Equal with heaven young Damon loved the boy, 20 The boast of nature, both his parents' joy, His graceful form revolving in his mind; So great a genius, and a soul so kind, Gave sad assurance that his fears were true; Too well the envy of the gods he knew: For when their gifts too lavishly are placed, Soon they repent, and will not make them last.