1 Gerald's letter was so full of brag and bluster as to how the Yankees had been driven from the railroad that one would have thought he personally had accomplished the feat, single handed.
2 There had been none of his usual bluster and vitality, but at least he had told a connected story and now--now, he did not even remember Ellen was dead.
3 "That's just what I do mean," returned Trenor, his bluster sinking to sullenness under her look.
4 But the long serpents crawled slowly from hill to hill without bluster of smoke.
5 From all the interwoven forest arose the smoke and bluster of the battle.
6 It was in vain for Bounderby to bluster or to assert himself in any of his explosive ways; Mrs. Sparsit was resolved to have compassion on him, as a Victim.
7 But when I gave him every particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a life-preserver from the wall.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET 8 My business was to declare myself a scoundrel, and whether I did it with a bow or a bluster was of little importance.
9 Not, I grant you, but what his manners is given to blusterous," said Joe, apologetically; "still, a Englishman's ouse is his Castle, and castles must not be busted 'cept when done in war time.'
10 Summer and winter the scene was the same, unless the wind were more than usually blusterous, when the stool was shifted a few feet round the corner.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" 11 It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.
12 He had done it all, little, hard-headed, blustering Gerald.
13 Ellen was the audience before which the blustering drama of Gerald O'Hara had been played.
14 Precisely," said Schliemann; "the low knavery and the ferocious cruelty incidental to them, the plotting and the lying and the bribing, the blustering and bragging, the screaming egotism, the hurrying and worrying.
15 Although Mr. Bounderby carried it off in these terms, holding the door open for the company to depart, there was a blustering sheepishness upon him, at once extremely crestfallen and superlatively absurd.