Boasted

Examples

• Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• But now my boasted independence was daily instigating me to acts of tyranny, and freedom was becoming licentiousness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Counting both pleasure and business vehicles, the borough of Manhattan boasted about 2,500 storage-battery driven wagons in active use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I drew a touching picture of his vacillating health; I boasted of my own strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown; Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Should your boasted beauty, said the Templar, be weighed in the balance and found wanting, you know our wager? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I watched her keenly: here was a true test of that memory she had boasted; would her recollections now be faithful? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Something like the man, who boasted of having been addressed by the Emperor Bonaparte: What did he say to you? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Amongst her other endowments she boasted an exquisite skill in the art, of provocation, sometimes driving her _bonne_ and the servants almost wild. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My exploit was equal to that of the soldier who boasted that he had cut off the leg of one of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Man's boasted power and freedom, all are flown. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Omniverous man, in spite of his boasted civilization and enlightment, not only eats them all, flesh, fowl, fish, grain and plants, but lives exclusively upon them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His temperament boasted a certain amount of phlegm, and he preferred an undemonstrative, not ungentle, but serious aspect to any other. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now, do you suppose he really has got hold of any other papers of importance, as he has boasted to you, since you have been such allies? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• This performance must have delighted him to the very bottom of his soul, for he has boasted that his task in life is to aid in ruining le prestige de la culture bourgeoise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You called me your princess without having asked my hand of me, and then you boasted that you had fought for me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• As he spoke, I felt subject to him; and all my boasted pride and strength were subdued by the honeyed accents of this blue-eyed boy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I believe Chesterton has hold of an essential truth when he says that this is the first time men have boasted of their heresy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

Typist: Sonia