I'm not talking about your cat, Widow Louchard; but about a lot of braggarts, all of whom challenged me yesterday, and who don't dare to call on me to-day.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Human nature can spare so little sympathy for braggarts in disaster, that we may possibly have been too hard on his demerits.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
4. Modest and shy as a nun is she, One weak chirp is her only note; Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: "Bobolink, Bobolink, Spink, spank, spink, Never was I afraid of man, Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey