If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862); American philosopher and naturalist; writer of Walden]
Not only does the title boast 90 micro games, there is also the ability to create your own unique games. From Wordnik.com. [Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums] Reference
Eat Sleep Sport United star makes title boast - 1 hr ago. From Wordnik.com. [BBC - Ouch] Reference
Over fifty chefs, and the only Asian/Pacific Islander face you can boast is Morimoto?. From Wordnik.com. [dear food network « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference
What it doesn't so readily boast is the horrific killings that occurred in Pine Deep some thirty years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
His boast is a foretaste of the legal circus we can expect. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight] Reference
You have everything to boast, that is worthy of being boasted of. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
The boast was a vain boast, the heat of passion alone prompting it. From Wordnik.com. [The Channings] Reference
(A boast is a shot that hits a side wall before it hits the front wall.). From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Wesleyan Squash Camp: Alex Beam] Reference
I recalled her boast that all Grim needed now and I too, was an obituary notice. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
La Presse, whose boast is to be: Le Plus Grand Journal Français d’Amérique, etc. etc. From Wordnik.com. [Five-typo feast of fail] Reference
His boast is the best in the business, almost cost him his role in helping the moviemakers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2007] Reference
And when Traverse expressed this hope, they who knew him so well felt assured that he had made no vain boast. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Hand] Reference
If you ask, you are taking away their chance to "boast". From Wordnik.com. [Carole Bennett, MA: Should You Monitor An Alcoholic/Addicts Recovery? 8 Reasons Why Not] Reference
Birmingham can 'boast' a full set of Tory, LD, Labour, BNP and Green candidates across all 40 wards. From Wordnik.com. [The Disappearing Local Candidates] Reference
Come along; you shall see the difference between a real honest man, as I am, and such as boast to be so, and are not. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
She uttered the word with an eager look, and with strong emphasis, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
I have a few female family members who call me to "boast" about some domestic achievement and they know they will hear a cheery congrats. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in the Window, Sewing] Reference
In the vain boast of orient dies. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, by Mrs. M. Robinson] Reference
Shakespeare speaks of "such as boast and show their scars.". From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Shakespeare speaks of ` ` such as boast and show their scars. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
It has been a kind of boast that his men were always the genuine article. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Olive] Reference
She said the word eagerly, and with a weird smile that had a kind of boast in it. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Boys from Dickens] Reference
It's just that we all witnessed "seemingly simple" boast "Mission Accomplished" before manifesting the fantastic. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Here, and here only, the mad boast which is doomed to be so miserably falsified when applied to earthly gladness is simple truth. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference
But after the tape was played, counsel assisting the commission, Jeremy Gormly SC, said the developer's comments might have been a "boast". From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Of public honor and proud titles boast. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Of public honour and proud titles boast. From Wordnik.com. [The Sonnets] Reference
"boast" 27 charter schools on 48 campuses with plans for many more by the year 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas D. Kristof] Reference
(as you say), for I never thought him likely to "boast" of any thing which was not his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2] Reference
At the time it seemed an empty boast, if a chilling one. From Wordnik.com. ['We've Hit The Targets'] Reference
Only four plans, including HMO-Oregon, could boast rates under 14 percent. From Wordnik.com. [Does Your Hmo Stack Up?] Reference
Applicants must boast an astonishing variety of extracurricular interests. From Wordnik.com. [Back In College] Reference
Baseball players boast about a 30 - 30 year: 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases. From Wordnik.com. [Here We Go Again] Reference
Even some college grads who've lost their first jobs boast of a silver lining. From Wordnik.com. [How Safe Is Your Job?] Reference
Russians like to boast that their language has better profanities than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Swearing Up a Storm] Reference
Wall Street and the news media greeted this boast with, shall we say, a lack of healthy skepticism. From Wordnik.com. [Rook At Trump's Castle?] Reference
They do not wish to boast, but they also do not wish to relive their feelings of disgust and shame. From Wordnik.com. [Fear At The Front] Reference
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