People usually don't like to listen to boasters; people who are modest are much more pleasant to listen to. From LearnThat.org.
He refused to believe what he thought impossible, but honour obliged him to call the boaster to the field. From Wordnik.com. [The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France] Reference
The Slashdot boaster is just that. From Wordnik.com. [Disintermediation and Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The words of a boaster are a mask of doubt. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion of Petra] Reference
He knows that he will not, by them, be called a boaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
It also shows what a foolish thing it is to be a boaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
I swaggered and shrugged and played harlequin and boaster. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Thus we expresse Thraso a boaster, and Demea a sowre felowe. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes] Reference
A boaster, that when he is tried, fails, and is put to shame?. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
'Abel Eeddy was a bragger and a boaster from his cradle days.'. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Old Kinoos is a brave man, but Old Kinoos was never a boaster. From Wordnik.com. [NEGORE, THE COWARD] Reference
Relying on the truce, which saves thy life, thou turnest boaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Phoenissae] Reference
For further, this is the character of a fool and a boaster to say. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
Captain Barclay could not tolerate a boaster or puppy in any shape. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
"And are a villain, a calumniator, and boaster in all -- defend thyself.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
We have delayed taking Boy in a Shed for his MMR boaster for that reason. From Wordnik.com. [MMR - what do the Doctors and Politicans children have ?] Reference
I can only tell you, from my own knowledge of her, that she is no boaster. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
I remember the young boaster well enough, but I can't imagine how you could. From Wordnik.com. [The Otherworld]
Headlong he leaped on the boaster, and, snatching his knife from its scabbard. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference
How very much like this ancient boaster are thousands of the human family today. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
The boaster soon exhausts his subject; the grumbler has matter that lasts for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
A quiet lad he was and not a boaster and braggart like lots o 'people seem to think. From Wordnik.com. [Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon] Reference
With this understanding the boaster betook himself to the haunted house for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
"Not quite the best," insisted a quartet of upside - down birds across from the boaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment Of The Magician]
A swaggering coward is compared to a drunken mouse; and many a boaster on the porch of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
And when Einstein was told that, he said, "Well, that's because Napoleon's a big boaster.". From Wordnik.com. [Einstein: A Life] Reference
That was not true; it was his master who owned these things; but he was a terrible boaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Pink Fairy Book] Reference
Thus Cyrus talked big in perils and on battle-fields, though at other times he was no boaster. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
And it is the boaster that seems to be opposed to the truthful man; for he is the worse character. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
Michael Angelo was a boaster, weakly vain of his knowledge of anatomy, and without a particle of grace. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
As I have said, however, Jim was a great boaster and blusterer, glorying in the marvelous and dangerous. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
A brave, worthy man, not a braggart or boaster, to be put upon that heroic perch must be painful to him. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
This "he is the only one" stuff is lame regardless of whose spouse or boaster is saying it in the primary. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Obama: My Husband Is Only Candidate Who Can Change How World Views America] Reference
This is not news so why are you printing this, CNN, other than to boaster your own biased support of Obama?. From Wordnik.com. [McClellan hints at supporting Obama] Reference
Winkle, one of the Pickwickians, is a mild and foolish boaster, who pretends that he can do things he cannot. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
We will probably have his boaster after teenage years have set in and the last major set of brain development has finished. From Wordnik.com. [MMR - what do the Doctors and Politicans children have ?] Reference
Is it merely that our culture dislikes a boaster, and teaches us it's better to be modest, that people will like you better?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
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