The word "too" pleased Sax immensely, but it stirred his friend to answer, somewhat boastfully: "I can ride as well as he can-can't I, Sax?"
"In the Musgrave Ranges"
Jim Bushman
Lansing Treadwell had not cared to cover his true identity; rather boastfully he had proclaimed himself a Hertford and meant, some day, to reclaim his family lands and bring back the glory of the past.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
Harry had seemed a very long way off in New Zealand, and became, eventually, an improbable myth, for Garrett had that happy quality bestowed on the ostrich of sticking his head into the sand of imagination and boastfully concluding that facts were not there.
"The Wooden Horse"
Hugh Walpole