"Blusterer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brought you down here because you have the faculty of making men think they hate you—then going out and working their heads off for you, because well, to be frank, you're the biggest, blunderingest, hardest-working blusterer that I ever saw—and you're the only man who can pull me through. This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed. The steel and ties are all right, but the ballast is rotten. You've got to make it the ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... inconceivable how moving this process proved, not only to Freeman, but to the crowd comprising his body-guard. The poor blusterer, entirely cut off from big companions, was in a laughable panic. His tawny skin became ashen, as he bounded from his seat and rushed to the extremity of the piazza; and, to make a long story short, in a few minutes he was as penitent and humble ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer |
