"Boasting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between seven and eight hundred men, of whom about a hundred and twenty were French, and the rest mission Indians.[77] They declared that they would lay waste all the settlements on the Connecticut,—meaning, it seems, to begin with Hatfield. "This army," says Williams, "went away in such a boasting, triumphant manner that I had great hopes God would discover and disappoint their designs." In fact, their plans came to nought, owing, according to French accounts, to the fright of the Indians; for a soldier having ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
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... everywhere driven back, and Hokiuping returned to China rich in booty, among it the golden images used as religious emblems by one of the Tartar princes. Returning with a larger force, he swept far through their country, boasting on his return that he had put thirty thousand Tartars to the sword. As a result, two of the princes and a large number of their followers surrendered to Vouti, and were disarmed and dispersed through the ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
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... as if I were boasting, but this is something for a young Englishman to be able to say in a country which, though it is the veritable El Dorado of poor Drake's dreams, and has possibly a future of wealth and prosperity before it when it comes under the rule of the Anglo-Saxon ...
— The Ghost Ship - A Mystery of the Sea • John C. Hutcheson
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... topsy-turvy once more. The seventh Janissary regiment, when the two-and-thirty Janissaries returned to them with bloody swords boasting of their deed, rushed upon them and cut them to pieces. The new Janissary Aga was shot dead within his own gates. Kabakulak retired within a mosque. Halil Pelivan, who had been appointed Kulkiaja, hid himself in a drain pipe ...
— Halil the Pedlar - A Tale of Old Stambul • Mr Jkai
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... he went on swinging, he heard all the birds quarrelling, and boasting, and fighting, hundreds of them all around, and he said to ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies
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