gasconade

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• However, I gulped down my scruples with the morning cocktail which we all took at the bar of the Widow Joplin, and listened patiently while Mr. Rucker gasconaded about the wonderful shots he had made, the tremendous leaps his horse had taken over gullies and logs. Dialect Tales
• Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
• With all the gasconade common to Orientals generally, the chiefs of the countries I have mentioned, are cowards at heart, tyrants as they are when opportunity offers; and they dread the sight of a ship of war in their harbours. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
• Morrow said there was too much of that kind of gasconade in America, and that after our desperate struggle at home we would not be likely to engage in one with England. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
• The big painter, in his full-blooded, boyish fashion, fairly gasconaded over the success of his exhibit. Children of the Whirlwind
• whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade
• It will be evident to them that the actor made love luringly and died effectively, that he was capable of lyric reading and staccato gasconade, that he had a burly humor and that touch of sentiment that trembles into tears. The Theory of the Theatre
• Goodwill," in which was Captain Knox, who spoke French, and who reports thus in his Diary: "He gasconaded at a most extravagant rate, and gave us to understand that it was much against his will that he was become an Montcalm and Wolfe
• In many places, the top of the ‘lower Gasconade’ is marked by a heavy chert zone comprising silicified algae and/or stromatolites.
• You know, motors were invented for a reason," called out a smirking motorboater near the confluence of the Missouri and Gasconade rivers. Columbiatribune.com stories