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He is boastful of his success.
I'm always bored with his boastful talk.
My neighbor's son is very bright, but he's also annoyingly boastful of his accomplishments at school.
With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death and every poisonous element of death in action close on life,-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two; here sow him in corruption, to be raised[123] in corruption; an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside; a shameful testimony to future ages that civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
’ ‘You are a boastful champion,’ replied Heathcliff; ‘but I don’t like you well enough to hurt him: you shall get the full benefit of the torment, as long as it lasts.
With houses looking on, on every side, save where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate-with every villainy of life in action close on death, and every poisonous element of death in action close on life-here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two, here sow him in corruption, to be raised in corruption: an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside, a shameful testimony to future ages how civilization and barbarism walked this boastful island together.
Guppy's perplexing way with boastful misery to tempt his particular friends into this subject, and the moment they touch it, to turn on them with that trenchant severity about the chords in the human mind, both Mr.
' I knew he was certain to say something of this kind; he always would be so boastful about his difficulties.
After Kincaid moved away, he grew up to become an irresponsible pothead Rastafarian, a boastful lady-killer, a gardener who toyed with becoming a singer and gave himself the stage name "Sugar.
Madrid is the next rung down from heaven, so the boastful local saying goes, and the city’s residents claim their superiority in other terms.
America is particularly boastful of her great power, her enormous national wealth.
As sensible Americans, and somewhat boastful of our intelligence, we should put the education of the young in wild-life protection on a rational business basis.
In boastful proof of his promptitude and activity, as a remarkable man, and a self-made man, and a commercial wonder more admirable than Venus, who had risen out of the mud instead of the sea, he liked to show how little his domestic affairs abated his business ardour.
"We know that you have Bonaparte and that he has beaten everybody in the world, but we are a different matter.
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"-without knowing why or how this bit of boastful patriotism slipped out at the end.
106 we put “big wages” in quotation-marks to imply that some one has used this familiar expression in a boastful way without telling the whole truth, which is exposed in the small sum that follows.
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