She had yet to learn that they are now and then a little too aggressively proud of themselves in western Canada, though it must be said that the boaster is usually ready to pour out the sweat of tensest effort with ax and saw or ox-team to prove his Vaunting warranted.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
She knew little about yachts; yachting was no pastime of Lord Moone's; but even her Vaunting mood relaxed to a momentary smile as she remembered the yacht down under the hill there.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
In the first dizziness of the impression he had the sense of intruding on Fashion Vaunting itself unabashed to the trumpetings of heralds, and there swept back over him the positive pain of diffidence which he had felt that other time, when he stood in the open doorway of Colonel Wallifarro's house and announced that he had come to the party.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck