'It's what I call the rhodomontade of independence,' said Hugh. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
‘It’s what I call the rhodomontade of independence,’ said Hugh. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Above all, the highest spirit in the world changes only too easily at the first check into depression, and one might say into a kind of rhodomontade of alarm, the. From Wordnik.com. [On War — Volume 1] Reference
There was more than mere rhodomontade in these words. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
Neither is this a mere rhodomontade, if it be true, that the number was four hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
I heard him preach one of his earliest sermons, and I have hardly ever heard such boyish rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Therefore the rhodomontade of G L and S A, or great literary and scientific attainments, was equal to the braying of an A s s. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841] Reference
Involved, obscure, inflated as Chapman's phrasing not infrequently is, it is not mere rhodomontade, sound, and fury, signifying nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Perhaps ignorance and thoughtlessness were never more decidedly manifested than in Brougham's late rhodomontade on the failure of Democracy in this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
In a word, no two men were ever more different than Jemmy Whiteley in the rhodomontade of the morning and Mr. James Whiteley at his own hospitable, respectable board. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
The public taste in fiction was not fastidious, and could swallow long-winded discussions and sentimental rhodomontade with an appetite that now seems almost incredible. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
A rhodomontade title-page was once a great favourite. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
The charges against Marlborough were idle rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Defoe] Reference
The rhodomontade of Tamburlaine and the piled-up horror of. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
What rhodomontade and pedantry is this talk about the shape of. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
This is the most unaccountable rhodomontade that I ever uttered. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica] Reference
The new governor introduces himself with a burst of rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV] Reference
Irish rhodomontade went straight out of my head, and I ran to him. From Wordnik.com. [Melchior's Dream and Other Tales] Reference
This singular rhodomontade is enclosed in a letter to a friend of Rob. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference
But coldly recited now, I admit the rhodomontade to be exceedingly tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
The romance of her life had become to her a rhodomontade of which she was ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [The Vicar of Bullhampton] Reference
Captain Robert Baldry, listening with cold patience to the adventurer's rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
This noisy rhodomontade did not prevent Ali from being consumed with grief and anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Crimes (Complete)] Reference
Was there ever a literature in Irish or merely a collection of ridiculous rhodomontade?. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Books and Irish People] Reference
It was Mary, and he blushed at perceiving that she must have heard all his rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1] Reference
But, sir, all these are but the boasts of a weak cause -- the rhodomontade of the streets of Washington. From Wordnik.com. [The Southern Spy. Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War. Written Anonymously in Washington and Elsewhere.] Reference
It is no rhodomontade, this time, but a sad fact and necessity; unless we do at our posts, we must verily die!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
His reports were without rhodomontade or exaggeration, and his tone uniformly modest, composed, and uninflated. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of Gen Robert E Lee]
He got to think that she was really a genius in a way, and saw merit even in the verbiage and rhodomontade of her books. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
On hearing this rhodomontade, Amelia's mother burst into tears, for she thought the poor child was still raving with fever. From Wordnik.com. [The Brownies and Other Tales] Reference
Were it not for the gravity of the situation, Gaspar's young companions would be greatly amused at his quaint rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco] Reference
Gerald, jealous for the honor of home, was magnificent in his descriptions, and unconscious that he was talking rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Guardians or, Home in This World] Reference
The accounts of this transaction have something in them bordering on the ludicrous, and give it the air of absurd rhodomontade. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II)] Reference
It was "the height of rhodomontade," an offer, quite an inconceivable offer -- Mr. George came to ask the hand of Emily in marriage!. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen] Reference
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