Swaggering

Examples

• Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Armitage and Ramsden smoking, Malone swaggering, your uncle sneering, Mr. Sykes sipping a cordial, and Moore himself in his cold man-of-business vein! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Who would not cut the very best swaggering Stanhope for a Molyneux? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was no frantic crowding and jostling, no shouting and swearing, and no swaggering intrusion of services by rowdy hackmen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Martin, my lad, thou'rt a swaggering whelp now; thou wilt some day be an outrageous puppy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He carried his head very jauntily in the air, had a swaggering style of walking, and was, above all else, remarkable for his extraordinary height. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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