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Boastfulness
Aglaonice Thessalian who claimed power over moon. [Gk. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 16] archetypal Miles Gloriosus. [Br. Lit.: Troilus and Cressida] Trojan prince; crippled for boasting of intimacy with Aphrodite. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 22] verbose braggart and pedant. [Br. Lit.: Love’s Labour’s Lost] knight renowned for foolish bragging. [Br. Lit.: Solomon and Persida, Brewer Dictionary, 83]
braggart soldier in the Miles Gloriosus tradition. [Br. Lit.: Walsh Modern, 55] blustering braggart and spurious war veteran. [Br. Lit.: The Old Batchelour] blustering braggadocio of yellow stripe. [Br. Lit.: Every Man in His Humour] empty braggart. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] struck dead by a thunderbolt for boasting that not even Jove could stop him from scaling the wall of Thebes. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 166] blustering bully, known for his extravagantly boastful speeches. [Br. Lit.: The Rehearsal] jovial knight and rascal of brazen braggadocio. [Br. Lit.: Merry Wives of Windsor; I Henry IV; II Henry IV] inhabitant of Gascony, France; people noted for their bragging. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 1049] Welsh ally of the Percys; his boastfulness antagonizes Hotspur. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV] peasant hero of fanciful adventures. [Hung. Lit. and Opera: Osborne Opera, 148] rude and vainglorious knight of the Round Table. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur; Idylls of the King] runaway boy tells stories with self as epitome of bravery. [Irish Lit.: The Playboy of the Western World, Magill I, 758–759] cowardly braggart and wastrel. [Br. Lit.: All’s Well That Ends Well] knight of the “killing tongue and quiet sword.” [Br. Lit.: II Henry IV] gallant but blustering Saracen leader. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Furioso; Orlando Innamorato] well-to-do dolt brags loud and long of bravery. [Br. Lit.: Ralph Roister Doister] noisy braggart. [Ital. Lit.: Secchia Rapita, Brewer Handbook, 945] talks a good fight; never does. [Ital. Lit.: Espy, 125] tells tall tales of his fantastic adventures. [Fr. Lit.: Tartarin de Tarascon] resident of second largest U.S. state; known for his tall tales. [Am. Culture: Misc.] swaggering but foolish soldier. [Rom. Lit.: The Eunuch]
declared that he would retain his office regardless of the reigning king’s religion. [Br. Balladry: Walsh Classical, 61] Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | he said to himself, referring to his getting the peasant warm with the same boastfulness with which he spoke of his buying and selling. The jays clamored loudly, and the trees whispered darkly, as before; and I somehow traced in the two sounds a fanciful analogy to the open boastfulness of Mr. Similarly, though with a subtle difference, a species of fervour or intoxication, known, without doubt, to have led some persons to brave the guillotine unnecessarily, and to die by it, was not mere boastfulness, but a wild infection of the wildly shaken public mind. |
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