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Vauntingly

adverb

In a boastful manner. Synonyms: big, boastfully, large.

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... had given his confidence to this hostile stranger man; not vauntingly or challengingly, but simply as he had spoken his name. Against his will he had done this thing, despite a reticence no one who did not understand Indian nature could appreciate. Then at least it would not have ...

— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge

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... Thames to repair damages and collect his ships in readiness again to encounter the enemy. Such was the last action which was fought before we left England," continued the officer; "but I am ashamed to say that Tromp was seen vauntingly sailing up and down the Channel with a broom at his mast-head, as if he had swept the ...

— The Boy who sailed with Blake • W.H.G. Kingston

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... gay belles of fashion may boast of excelling In waltz or cotillon, at whist or quadrille; And seek admiration by vauntingly telling Of drawing and painting, and musical skill; But give me the fair one, in country or city, Whose home and its duties are dear to her heart, Who cheerfully warbles some rustical ditty, While plying ...

— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter

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... your opinion," answered Oswald; "Metastasio, who is vauntingly called the poet of love, gives the same colouring to this passion in every country and under every circumstance. His admirable airs are entitled to our applause as much from their grace and harmony as the lyrical beauties which they contain, especially when detached from the ...

— Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Or Italy • Mme de Stael

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Words linked to "Vauntingly" : big, large, boastfully