How To Use Brag In A Sentence
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And it is not clear that he will be sailing into the summer convention with a great deal of brag and bounce.
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He bragged that he had passed the exam easily.
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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There's even a Twitter handle now dedicated to some of the best humble brags out there.
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The autumn birds were singing; the autumn flowers were blooming; yellow golden rod and scarlet sumach glowed in the corners of the fences; locusts chirped in treetops; grasshoppers stridulated in the meadows, one or two of them making more noise than a whole drove of cattle lying peacefully chewing their cud beneath an umbrageous elm and lifting up their great, tranquil, blinking eyes to the morning sun.
The Redemption of David Corson
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In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet
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One does not always like to brag about her omniscience.
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But it was restored as a chapel in 1662 by Charles II for his wife, Queen Catherine of Braganza, who established a friary in its grounds.
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Why is it that Father would rather have a commander who is an arrogant braggart ---a fool who just appears to be leading his army?
THE FAMILY
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There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
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Smart lads, they hadn't flaunted the loot, bragged about the heist, or written a rap song memorializing the event.
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He's a politician now, which means that bragging and whoring his story is the job description.
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On the whole I found the films kind of a let down (I’ll never brag about having film in Annecy again ..) but it was worth it for one film, I think the best short film I’ve ever seen: Skhizein, which won the audience award.
Sydneypadua.com » Blog Archive » Things I Draw When I’ve Had a Few
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You are my friend and I love you man but winning 1 game out of the last 6 by only a last second bucket is nothing to bragg about.
Missouri just spanked the Ks. basketball team last night. Would it be polite to rub it in to a fellow gun nut blogger.
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For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, their debut resonates with a wild collection of weirdos: county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts.
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Every year around this time, college admissions officers can be heard humblebragging about how painful it was to reject so many qualified applicants.
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His wealth is his brag.
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The requisite clowning, braggadocio and hip-hop historicism are in place and well articulated, and an unprecedented, post-9/11 political pique has surfaced.
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An Arab village in Israel now holds the world's record for the largest plate of hummus, and bragging rights over Lebanon in what is known -- or what has become known as the hummus wars.
CNN Transcript Jan 8, 2010
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I'm not giving myself to some guy just so he can brag about it to his buddies.
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No one can brag about his or her good deeds because our works cannot save us.
Christianity Today
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This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers.
Times, Sunday Times
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While homophobia isn't new to pop, why would the Grammys celebrate someone who as recently as October used a slur in bragging to The Jamaica Observer about his war against gays?
Grammys goofed up nominees in a few award categories
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It was always a great laugh listening to all the young single men on a Monday morning bragging about their weekend exploits with the usual embellishment on one or two stories!
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He also gets to brag to his base about that victory, even as he demoralizes conservative voters.
The Real GOP Debt Choice
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Finally it came down to Jason and my sister, and I'm more than ecstatic to report that my sister creamed him, taking home the trophy and bragging rights, which she just happened to use on me for the rest of the week.
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The clip showed him spitting vile lyrics bragging about murder.
The Sun
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The broad Bragg peak arises from a cholesterol monolayer embodying poorly ordered two-dimensional crystalline domains, each containing ~ 200 molecules in a proposed trigonal arrangement.
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Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
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Prior to his front office career, Bragan played two seasons in the minor leagues, playing for franchises in the Florida State and Carolina leagues.
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Vocal Studies & Uprock Narratives eschews deep bass and braggadocio, working organic beats and polyrhythmic blasts with electronic effects.
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According to police affidavits unsealed two weeks after the fire, other residents told police that McLeod had talked about burning down the building earlier that night and bragged about having "torched" it afterward.
TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region
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I don't have anything against her, but this humblebrag she dropped really annoyed me.
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Is saying you need to keep track of six timezones a humblebrag?
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I have stupidly bragged that I could turn out some doggerel about anything; given the time.
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The Oscars give us a chance to humblebrag about all the arty movies we saw - or just read about - this year.
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Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled
Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Chris Moyles; In Our Time
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The conflict between Bragg and the lawmen is one of iron wills, and all the actors involved have more than enough chops to involve an audience deep enough into their macho standoff.
“Appaloosa” as nostalgic as they wanna be » Scene-Stealers
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While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for "Mexican" on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not "helping to win the war.
From Zoot Suits to Border Walls
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Yup, publicist Howard Bragman (who helped scootch Chaz Bono and Meredith Baxter into the light of gay) is allegedly prepared to shoo a big-time Somebody into the homosphere, and we have no idea who it is.
Queer Sighted
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Grandparents were happily bragging about their grandkids.
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He constantly brags about how well he plays football.
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But to find he is openly bragging about it rubs salt in the wound.
The Sun
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Bragg was forced to issue his own proclamation to the men of Kentucky, but the Kentuckians were not in a suasible mood.
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He later bragged that he was the only performer ever to get a complex comic scene right without needing a second take.
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The screenplay was written in nine whole days, bragged the credits.
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They go back to their big houses in their big cars, they do not have to worry much about local pride or bragging rights.
The Sun
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It is interesting to note that Queen Catherine of Braganza is credited with introducing tea to England.
Exit the Actress
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The occasional humblebrag might fly with your audiences but there's a fine line between sincerity and smugness.
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What do you call a bunch of chess players bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?
The Sun
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In the mean time the two favourites, taking um - brage at the intimacy that appeared between the emprefs and the Comneni, refolved to remove the two brothers out of the way.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time
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Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
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And within the field, status comes from puffing up racial bragging points.
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He bragged that the course which he claimed to be one of the best in the country, was in good shape and no excuse would be given by any golfer for failing to perform well.
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A novel slim FBG (Fiber Bragg grating) sensor device and its application in the real-time dynamic shape detection of colonoscope are presented.
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It is all about local bragging rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
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Now has bragging rights over his dad.
The Sun
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No one can brag about his or her good deeds because our works cannot save us.
Christianity Today
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“Liza could brag about her experience with fire, too—how she and her sister had escaped with their baby-sitter through a third-floor window, but a playmate had hidden in a closet and died.”
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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BS Private Equity stake Gruppo Banca Leonardo, the boutique investment bank started two years ago by Italian banker Gerardo Braggiotti, has taken a 20% stake in Italian midmarket private-equity firm BS Private Equity, with an option to buy the rest.
Banca Leonardo takes
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These guys don't brag and boast about who they are, they go in quiet and come out with the last laugh.
Times, Sunday Times
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Look, I don't want to be all braggy here, but I am about to come into some money.
Archive 2009-05-24
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An excavation was carried out of around one-third of an acre of bogland at Bragan.
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We find that the quantum smectics are rather different from the usual classical smectics in that the density correlations along the direction of the stripes manifest a Bragg-Glass type behaviour whereas those in the transverse direction are infra-red divergent.
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At still other times, the two sounds fight for bragging rights, slugging it out between our ears.
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More and more, when politicians talk about government employees - whether they are federal, state or local- it is with the kind of umbrage ordinarily aimed at Wall Street financiers and convenience store bandits.
Government workers under political fire
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A nightwatchman later overheard him bragging about his duplicity and arrested him.
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The best humblebrags have to convey three brags in 140 characters, while simultaneously begging for sympathy.
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Though Marley Marl's legendary Juice Crew had repped The Bridge in a braggadocious back-and-forth with KRS-One in the 80s, Nas now painted a more intimate picture of life in and around America's most expansive public housing development.
That Illmatic magic: revisiting Nas's masterpiece
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Her first set was a combination of songs Eliza had absorbed from her famous parents through osmosis, a Billy Brag number and tracks from her new album, Anglicana.
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Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
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Even so, it's almost always Tommy who gets home first, outsprinting the others up the hill, and then bragging about it the rest of the night.
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In the past two weeks no fewer than five countries have been bragging about their nuclear weapons.
The Sun
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I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug.
Auntie joanna writes
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Written with an air of braggadocio, Love's story is, in places, of questionable veracity.
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Anthony Curio bragged the whole way how he’d taken Suzy Micheli to the drive-in only he always called the drive-in the submarine races the night before, popping her cherry on the vinyl seat Jimmy and I were sitting on.
Kings of Colorado
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In Shakespeare's day the groundlings were a lot more unruly, and you could say that that actress wasn't being sincere or true to her Shakespearean traditions, taking umbrage at a harmless bit of tom foolery that wouldn't have caused Richard Burbage to drop so much as a single iamb from To be, or not to be.
Lance Mannion:
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Sure, we brag about Louverture; we even sing the praises of the TransAfrica Forum and other groups that champion Haitian self-determination and effective governance.
Marcia Dyson: Love in the Time of the Haitian Cholera
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And Boavista, who are languishing 40 points below Porto in 10th spot in the league, have only scored more league goals this season than one side, Sporting Braga.
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Farmer Bragard is further rumoured to be contemplating using the green for fattening up capons, and it is this in particular that has the authorities in a froth.
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At least one tweet was pretty braggadocious; it casually mentioned "my third sailboat" with an accompanying photo.
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But as far as technophile bragging rights go, it's pretty unbeatable - for now.
Times, Sunday Times
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In part, Jansen's relationship with McCann broke down because the Dutchman took umbrage at being asked to grade his squad members from A to E, a move designed to allow the club to assess each player's importance.
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Well what a surprise. 11am Radio 4 gives Billy Bragg a full half hour to prattle on about some obscure 1930s pacifists/ conchies / commune dwellers.
Open thread
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What's more, he had bragged while in prison about having a stash of money buried near Bowden, and it's possible someone killed his family while trying to get at it.
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That doesn't mean bragging about the tough 10-kilometre run you managed to squeeze in during the lunch hour or how much weight you can bench press.
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New entrants have a shrinking sales pool to swim in – and News International can't launch a bragging, soaraway Sun on Sunday without looking crass and cynical.
News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary
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They had for a long series of years been debarred from the privilege of religious worship, and as there was reason to fear that a continued neglect of divine ordinances would draw down upon them the judgments of offended heaven, they begged permission to go three days 'journey into the desert -- a place of seclusion -- where their sacrificial observances would neither suffer interruption nor give umbrage to the
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Indeed the wide diffusion of letters in the States, that favourite theme for boasting and bragging over the unenlightened and analphabetic Old World, has tended only to exaggerate the defective and disagreeable side of a national character lacking geniality and bristling with prickly individuality.
Arabian nights. English
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- E. (278) "Braganza" came out at Drury-lane theatre in 1775, and was very successful.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Horse's Ass blogger David Goldstein bragged that "Peter personally reached out to me" for fundraising help.
Sound Politics: Seattle nutroots trying to buy Eastern Washington congressional seat for nutty candidate
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By saying what I do is great – isn†™ t that bragging and don†™ t people dislike braggers?
How to Sell with a Clear Conscience
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I won't judge you if you feel the need to humblebrag.
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The weakness of productivity is not just a statistical curiosity or a matter of international bragging rights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton
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We bragged that, unlike the chemists, any physicist could teach any undergraduate physics course.
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Girls Hunt Too!!!" and "We've Got Braggin 'Rights," the bimonthly is similar to "the grown-up magazines, but minus the grown-up language," says Kiihnl.
Teens Launch HunTeen Magazine for Young Hunters and Anglers
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Two months more of big brags and felonious facts.
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Dawg, purely my opinion, but I think it's because they bragged back home and when they first got here that they were going to learn Spanish and integrate and interact in the local (Mexican) community and now find themselves unable or unwilling to make the necessary changes or to study enough to actually speak a little Spanish … more than más cerveza at least … so they are embarrassed, yet won't admit it.
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If McCain hated war, with all the experience he is bragging about, he should have known to clearly read the intelligence report before voting to send our troops off to Iraq.
McCain releases debut general election ad
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For those of you who do not know me personally, it is not a matter of braggadocio.
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The tree has a similar umbrageous habit to other Melia azedarach and will grow to 10m height and 8-10m spread.
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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‘This braggadocio, this bravado, it's all a cover-up,’ he said.
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Multipliers are the biggy for linking tricks, and after combing through a course a few times, players can locate and nail these for bragging rights.
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The Persian array was a vast conglomeration of incohesive elements, imposing in aspect but weak in determined battle: the army which Bragg was to meet was composed of patriotic volunteers, every man impelled by a thorough belief in the righteousness of his cause.
Reminiscences of the Civil War
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As for the stuff about living aborad, I take great umbrage at someone who admits to spending two weeks a year in this country and paying no taxes here lecturing me on how localy elected councillors should spend money.
What really undermines politics are false front organisations
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
Hamlet
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his brag is worse than his fight
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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I suggest we duz teh Jerk for teh firsty-braggers.
Self-conscious pole dancer kitty - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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-- It is a quick saying with the Spaniards, Artes inter haeredes non dividi. {25b} Yet these have inherited their fathers 'lying, and they brag of it.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
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Beverley Nichols claimed he was a sex-crazed cad who "stank" and bragged of seducing a 12-year-old girl in Thailand.
Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc
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They bragged about their exploits in Gawthorpe and this, naturally, upset the villagers.
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The umbrage of the tree didn't prevent the blinding light of the sun from getting to my eyes.
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After one season with the New England Patriots, Johnson has decided to go back to his old, braggadocious self.
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Its slopes are relatively untrodden, making it ideal for hikers who'd rather earn seclusion than bragging rights.
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Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The first entry made by the scrivener for the town of Braga in northern Portugal, on Saturday, 5 February 1569, refers to a petition before the municipal council from Ilena Piriz.
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Today: A review of monies allotted for the renovation of Hampton Court Palace, where our new Queen Catherine of Braganza and King Charles II will spend their honeymoon.
Exit the Actress
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In 1911 Marinetti, the literary founder of Futurism, helped organize an exhibition of the Bragaglia brothers' photographs in Rome.
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He had overheard his mom brag about the "killing" she had made on some cripple ranunculus (the lady at the supermarket practically gave the flowers away, rather than toss them out).
Brocante / Antiques
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So I would also much rather see someone "poach" a few small trout from private waters, that see someone legally kill a top spawner for bragging rights.
Does Catch and Release Reduce Trespassing Offense?
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This may be a first for international diplomacy: a world leader bragging about the prowess of his nation's hookers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the twelfth century, the historic, northern city of Braga has been Portugal's ecclesiastic capital and the seat of the country's archbishops.
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Herman said proudly that he was among the writers of the Prodeo bulletin published by the boys, while Ardi bragged about his ability to change cement sacks into colorful motorcycle miniatures.
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Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.
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Some integrated optics devices can be made based on the interdigital electrooptic bragg diffraction grating.
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I keep the trim moving and the power up to try to cushion the actual touchdown, and most of my landings are acceptable, if not always worth bragging about.
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In 1513 Conrad Mudt (Mutianus Rufus, supporter of Reuchlin and friend of Melanchthon) saw and heard Georg Faust at Erfurt; he wrote to a fellow humanist that this “immoderate and Foolish braggart,” calling himself the “demigod from Heidelberg,” before astonished listeners “talked nonsense at the inn.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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It would be a little rash to dismiss Bragg and his Terminals as just another troupe of pop-sensitive, heart-on-sleeve folkies.
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Also on this military subject, Wagner also brags on a long string of military units he has taught around the world, one such harping is on
Heroes or Villains?
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Augustus: and so in Constantine's time, Eusebius brags he governed all the world, universum mundum praeclare admodum administravit, — et omnes orbis gentes
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Monica was a fair cook, but the pot roast and mashed potatoes and gravy were nothing to brag about.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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He is a charming braggart who through accessorizing makes his three uniform wardrobe look like twelve.
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At my small town college the off-campus housing was very limited, which meant the go-getters got bragging rights on all the great apartments while the ambitious-yet-lazy people, like myself, were saddled with the dregs.
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In interviews he has always bragged about his success.
Times, Sunday Times
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The braggart turns every question into an answer that makes himself or herself look incredibly good.
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However, beneath the partly tongue-in-cheek braggadocio on his first solo LP in seven years, he clearly feels he has something yet to prove.
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His braggadocio, then, is leavened with insecurity.
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As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
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New Business Card Pictures
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Caribbean countries said they took "umbrage" and wanted to "put on record" their strong disapproval.
Joe Amon: The Beginning of the End for the War on Drugs?
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In fact, he used to brag to fellow drivers his crashes were bigger and more spectacular than theirs.
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Marty chatted with Fabio, and by "chatted," I mean bragged.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
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Saltimbocca, which literally means “jump into the mouth” in Italian, is a no-brag-just-facts description of the wonderfulness of the classic recipe made with veal scaloppine, prosciutto, and sage.
SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS
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Australia, brags Mr Costello, has become not the poor white trash but " the strongman of Asia " .
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Paulson, who has large positions in gold via the GLD ETF, bragged that in addition to maneuvering our investment strategy based on where we are in the economic cycle, a large part of our success has been based on anticipating market events before they are generally recognized.
Billionaire Movers: Google Guys, Buffett, Paulson And More
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They love to brag they are the most punctual airline but that appears to me to be the result of extending journey flight times.
The Sun
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I was buzzing after it and we got the local bragging rights.
The Sun
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So who will have bragging rights in the shortest form of the game?
Times, Sunday Times
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While you might view your BF's silence as a negative because it appears he's less-than-proud to be dating, it beats a kiss-and-tell braggart.
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Time for maneuvering and backstabbing, that is, if Dork Vader ever stops bragging about his victory.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor Tocantins: Lies and Whispers
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The braggart Anecdotes that bolster self-image reveal a great deal to you about the speaker.
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In interviews he has always bragged about his success.
Times, Sunday Times
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Agostinho Oliveira will bring the curtain down on his role as caretaker manager in Braga this week.
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The automatic transmission, an $ 815 stand-alone option in the tester, was nothing to brag about for smoothness of operation.
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No boast, no brag, no chest-thumping, no combat fatigues.
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And that might be why I'm not too braggy here - you may not know me well enough to know I'm not all bitchy, and you can't hear my tone.
Archive 2008-01-01
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And wide out-flings, like mighty wings, its arms umbrageously.
Rookwood
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There's no emotion or umbrage here or even shit-picking attached to telling you that when I read "harangue" I assume "bombastic ranting," which is not my connotation, but a standard and prevailing definition of the word "harangue.
Readercon 16: Day 1
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Camden council, where I live, never tires of bragging of how it evicts people with rent arrears.
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Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son, Lawrence.
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Tone it down or forget about making a love connection this week. You won't impress anyone if you brag, exaggerate or are self-centered.
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Oh, I could hit my head, and then for good measure, Melvyn Bragg's head too, lustrous barnet and all, against a brick wall.
Melvyn Bragg: 'I'm a class mongrel' – interview
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BRAGMAN: Well, first of all, look at what he has done to date, almost all of his decisions have been bad from a PR perspective, from the duplicitousness from the beginning to the way everything has been handled very badly.
CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article; 25 and his infusion of such dearth and rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his semblable26 is his mirror; and who else would trace him, his umbrage, 27 nothing more.
Act V. Scene II
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It has happened in spades on the Baja and Yucatan peninsulas where foreigners, mostly Americans, have bragged publicly about acquiring beach front properties in places like Tulum and Ensenada for what they considered chump change forcing the locals into federal housing or dismal swamps or the barest of hillside ghettos while inducing a backbreaking increase in their cost of living.
Safety in lakeside
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Though they may get carried away with internet-facilitated braggadocio, they also do the work that ‘respectable’ public figures don't have to.
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He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7
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There are few phenomena more scenic than the mountains at sunset, and what better way to get an eyeful than on a highway bike ride out to Cochrane or Bragg Creek?
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The Home Secretary took umbrage at the suggestion that his son had told him what to do, as opposed to taking a filial interest in his work.
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John says: orca: We would have been better off keeping our drone use a secret instead of bragging to the press aboutthem.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing
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A new demodulation method of fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensing signal, which is by making use of the monotonic decline section of an amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) light source, is proposed.
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If a young woman on the Island of Marken, where the people spoke Fries, wanted to brag about her infant she said, "Dis is de bijby".
This Democratic Empire
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The newly-awakened sheep bleated from the hills, and the umbrageous herbage, dropping dew, seemed glittering with a thousand fairy gems.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Sa figure était une pomme rouge, un bouton de pivoine prêt à fleurir, et là-dedans s'ouvraient, en haut, deux yeux noirs magnifiques, ombragés de grands cils épais qui mettaient une ombre dedans; en bas, une bouche charmante, étroite, humide pour le baiser, meublée de quenottes luisantes et microscopiques.
French Word-A-Day:
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Captain Bragg, who thought there was nothing in his passenger, and considered he was a poor-spirited feller at first, was constrained to own that the Major was a reserved but well-informed and meritorious officer.
Vanity Fair
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Yoder says he received no pay, but Bragg covered his rent in a New Orleans sublet and covered hotel, gas, and meal expenses whenever Yoder worked on a story that required him to travel.
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Sharing a hilltop with the fortress is the restored Palace of the Dukes of Braganza, a Renaissance castle that will host exhibitions and concerts during 2012.
Within Portugal's Cradle
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And you know, I often don't even worry about these awards and so on because well, it seems awfully braggy, but it's funny, we were talking about this one night, some of us Toronto crew, about blogging without ego, and I think this captures that same idea, so I'm going to pass it on to some of them.
Archive 2009-06-01
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When talking about the Beanpot, the term bragging rights'' comes up a lot because the four schools that compete in the annual tournament are all located in Boston and three are Hockey East rivals.
Boston.com Top Stories
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From the time Run-D.M.C. proclaimed themselves the ‘kings of rock,’ hip-hop's house has been built on a foundation of brags and boasts.
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It's easier to sell a new handset on its features, especially where those features might aid bragging rights.
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While I kind of bragged about the books I got, I didn't mention the mousepad.
Bye Bye New Mousepad
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But, if you speak too loudly, you may be perceived as overbearing, bossy aa braggart.
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Initially Madoff would rely on a "macher," the Yiddish term for a big shot, who would go to the country club and "brag, 'I've got my money invested with Madoff and he's doing really well,'" the Journal wrote.
The Economic Times
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In addition, he showed how to decode body language: crossing one's legs when sitting was a sign of uneasiness, while standing with one's legs wide apart was the hallmark of a braggart.
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A Methodist minister serving as an Air Force chaplain bragged about the support his wife gives him while he is recalled to active duty.
Gulf War II
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Company president Luke Nosek, a cofounder of PayPal, bragged that Halcyon would ultimately sequence complete human genomes in ten minutes for $100 or less, and at an astonishing 99.9999 percent accuracy.3 The scientific cofounders, the Andregg brothers, stretched out single strands of DNA on a sheet of carbon, attaching platinum atoms to the G bases and osmium to the T bases.
The $1,000 Genome
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Actually, being a rapper might just be a strong plus in portraying the early, braggadocious Cassius Clay.
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Chicagoland natives have always been seen as "braggadocious", but it's not our fault ... there's just so much to be proud of!
November 2008
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Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance.
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As a young priest he obtained a rich benefice from the Archbishop of Braga and proceeded to go on pilgrimage, leaving the benefice in the care of a nephew.
01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
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Charming houses stand in the "dells," that is, in the umbrageous cul-de-sacs where the graded streets terminate in bluffs too bold to be penetrated.
After the Storm: A Story of the Prairie
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One girl bragged that she had written the word frindle forty-five times on her sheets today.
Frindle
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Reigning Queen of the Humblebrag must have completely forgotten about her promise to become more private, because she couldn't wait to take to Twitter.
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Some researchers suggest that boys seem to have higher self-esteem because they hide their insecurities behind bragging.
