They did so; and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade . The prime bullies and braves among the free trappers had each his circle of novices, from among the captain's band; mere greenhorns, men unused to Indian life; mangeurs de lard, or pork-eaters; as such new-comers are superciliously called by the veterans of the wilderness.

She admired Tom for his exterior, but the admiration of no moderately sensible woman could overlook rodomontade so exceedingly desperate.

She knows what she's about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she'll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage, he flatters himself that she's devotedly attached to him; that she will not refuse him for his poverty, and does not court him for his rank, but loves him for himself alone.'

He has invented words leaving tweeters dazzled, such as "webaqoof" (someone who believes every allegation or claim on the internet to be true) and " rodomontade " (boastful talk or behaviour).

I choose my words because they are the best ones for the idea I want to convey, not the most obscure or rodomontade ones!".

He underlined that despite the initial rodomontade of Trump and a number of regional oil producers, the US government ultimately confessed to the severe shortage of oil and the impossibility of eliminating Iran from the market.

Paul Pioneer once described a Donnelly speech as "a rodomontade , full of empty bluster and boasting, of passionate adjurations, of morbid sentimentality, and of rhetorical pyrotechnics." And even readers of his diary may sometimes wonder if there was more to Donnelly than his ornate, ornery style of comic writing.<br />Disapproving of a U.S.

Brotton shows how Marlowe's characterizing of Tamburlaine creates unease in spectators by almost simultaneously exciting horror at his cruelty and excitement at the brilliance of his fiery and seductive rodomontade (160-6).

(1998) The third time as rodomontade . Overland 150, 5-10.

'Unfortunately there has always been a sentimental section of people who can indulge in the rhetoric of the rodomontade , but this class never allies itself ...

By that one act he would not only demonstrate leadership but a concern for the welfare of his province that goes beyond the rodomontade of political rhetoric.