"Vaunt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Before that dire disgrace shall blast my fame, O'erwhelm me, earth; and hide a warrior's shame!" To whom Gerenian Nestor thus replied:(194) "Gods! can thy courage fear the Phrygian's pride? Hector may vaunt, but who shall heed the boast? Not those who felt thy arm, the Dardan host, Nor Troy, yet bleeding in her heroes lost; Not even a Phrygian dame, who dreads the sword That laid in dust her loved, lamented lord." He said, and, hasty, ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer
... surprised young man tore open the letter, and, in company with his wife, read, with mingled emotions of pain and indignation, the following singular but characteristic compound of malicious vaunt ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson
... on their philosophical attainments vaunt in very eloquent words the superiority of the physical instrument over mere sensation. Evidently, however, the earnestness of this eulogy leads them astray. The most perfect registering apparatus must, in the long-run, after its most scientific operations, address itself to our senses ...
— The Mind and the Brain - Being the Authorised Translation of L'me et le Corps • Alfred Binet
... that considerate valour which does not delight in unnecessary risks. This, however, was a secondary consideration; the main point was to veil the indigence of the housekeeping at the castle, and to make good his vaunt of the cheer which his resources could procure, without Lockhard's assistance, and without supplies from his master. This was as prime a point of honour with him as with the generous elephant with whom we have already compared him, who, being overtasked, broke his skull through the desperate ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... highly than any other flowers of the field. The Dutch are still notorious for their partiality to them, and continue to pay higher prices for them than any other people. As the rich Englishman boasts of his fine race-horses or his old pictures, so does the wealthy Dutchman vaunt him of his tulips. ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
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