"And I place the secret you wring from me under the seal of that honour which you so vauntingly make your excuse for imperilling the peace of the home I ought never to have suffered you to enter.
"Kenelm Chillingly, Book 8."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Then Wattawamat advanced with a stride in front of the other, And, with a lofty demeanor, thus vauntingly spake to the Captain: "Now Wattawamat can see, by the fiery eyes of the Captain, Angry is he in his heart; but the heart of the brave Wattawamat Is not afraid at the sight.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more?
"The Little Book of the Flag"
Eva March Tappan