But the wound had dulled no part of his Braggardism and he told a highly colored tale of an encounter against nearly impossible odds.
"Warrior of the Dawn"
Howard Carleton Browne
When the victors, magnifying the number of their adversaries with instinctive Braggardism, spoke of about five hundred men, everybody protested against such a low estimate.
"The Fortune of the Rougons"
Emile Zola