The heavens added to the noise with a fanfaronade of thunder, which inspired the crocodile to bellow in response. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
This fanfaronade and these challenges launched by Castelo Branco are ridiculous, because they know that this is not our task -- it is the work of the Brazilians. From Wordnik.com. [13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS] Reference
About this time I read a cable report that the gorilla Castelo Branco -- this individual is the (pause) president of Brazil -- and I do not know in what ceremony, in any of those ceremonies that are seen when they have them there -- it is said that he launched a fanfaronade. From Wordnik.com. [13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRACKS] Reference
Every day a table of thirty covers was laid for those whom he chose to invite; he dined in public -- a fanfaronade of trumpets proclaiming his down-sitting and his up-rising -- and the people thronged the banqueting-hall in such numbers that barriers had to be erected in the middle of it to keep the obtrusive multitude at a respectful distance. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
I do not believe in the fanfaronade that all men are by nature equal. From Wordnik.com. [An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans] Reference
At high noon the bazaar was opened with a flourish of trumpets and a fanfaronade by the band. From Wordnik.com. [Patty and Azalea] Reference
And after this fanfaronade, lo! some commonplace that you shall find in a hundred modern poets or philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Most different, again, from both is the Cafe-de-Valois eloquence, and suppressed fanfaronade, of this multitude of men with. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Slow seemed the Day of Settlement: coming on, all imperceptible, across the bluster and fanfaronade of Courtierisms, Conquering-Heroisms. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Temple, who was sometimes in consultation with him, and was always amused by his quasi-fanfaronade, assured me that Herriot was actually scheming. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
I took the liberty of retagging my old Fisty in order to have a suitable Hewitt Award logo to feed my simultaneous moods of grievance and fanfaronade. From Wordnik.com. [Velociworld] Reference
I perceive, Signore, "continued Raoul, as he and Andrea walked a little aside," that you have not easily forgotten my little fanfaronade about our English Cicero. From Wordnik.com. [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference
Paris, that flabby Cyclops, Gambetta, was to mouth his monstrous platitudes, and brood over the battle-smoke, a nightmare of pomposity and fanfaronade -- in a balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Lorraine A romance] Reference
But the question is: Will hypothetic prophecies, will jingle and fanfaronade demolish the Veto; or will the Veto, secure in its Tuileries Chateau, remain undemolishable by these?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half-dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
The compact, clear-seeing, decisive Italian nature of him, strong, genuine, which he once had, has enveloped itself, half dissolved itself, in a turbid atmosphere of French fanfaronade. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5] Reference
To urge, as has been lately urged, that it lacks all human touch and is a mere intellectual fanfaronade, and that there is not once a line of poignant insight, is altogether uncritical. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
And hark! fanfaronade of trumpets, and here into the Great Place, resplendent in an open carriage, with four gorgeously - attired servitors up behind, playing horns, drums, and cymbals, rolled. From Wordnik.com. [Somebody's Luggage] Reference
Holding in mind, now, the notions of liberty and democracy as we have defined them, we see that it is not altogether a matter of fanfaronade when the American citizen calls himself a "sovereign.". From Wordnik.com. [What Social Classes Owe to Each Other] Reference
Garibaldian time, describing the day of Villa Gloria; the march of the morning, the wild hopes, the fanfaronade; and in the evening, a girl hiding a wounded lover and weeping both for him and "Italia" undone. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Connie] Reference
There was no repose, no reticence, no self-respect and modesty about the whole affair; it was all too violent; a fanfaronade; a coarse and ostentatious make-believe, that seemed a kind of insult to a quiet mind. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Fortunatus] Reference
"He made great ado with his guns, and his pouches, and his fanfaronade, and knocking me with his elbows and telling me to keep still, when no mouse could be more still than I, and after all he did not catch one.". From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
The kings who had been deposed with so much bloodshed and fanfaronade, reappeared as if nothing had happened when Louis Philippe laid the first stone for the pedestal of Corneille's statue carved by David d'Angers. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rouen] Reference
Most distinguished among these was Alonso de Ojeda, a dare-devil of unrivalled muscular strength, full of energy and fanfaronade, and not without generous qualities, but with very little soundness of judgment or character. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
But despite all this fanfaronade of brutal bluster, and various movements that looked somewhat threatening, and this complete isolation for more than a week from the rest of the World, the city of Washington was not seized by the Rebels, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Conspiracy, Complete] Reference
Galloping up to the Council with a hundred and fifty Geraldines at his heels, he seized the Sword of State, marched into the council-room, and addressing the Council in his capacity of Vice-deputy, poured forth a speech full of boyish fanfaronade and bravado. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ireland] Reference
In the second supposition, their drawing up in line and sending a flag to demand surrender was a painful fanfaronade. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76] Reference
Page 112 and dwelt upon the benefits, and more especially upon the beauties, of the received code of etiquette in passages of arms, with an ardor, an eloquence, an impressiveness, and, if I may so speak, an affectionateness of manner, which elicited the warmest enthusiasm from his hearers in general, and absolutely staggered even myself, who well knew him to be at heart a ridiculer of those very points for which he contended, and especially to hold the entire fanfaronade of duelling etiquette in the sovereign contempt which it deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference
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