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He wore his honours—as he did a cross won, no one quite knew how, during a brief service in the Peninsula—neither pompously nor boastingly, but with the mild indifference of conscious desert.

From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Crane, Walter

The sneer with which the speech was accompanied goaded me to frantic rage—at the same time that it made me feel my impotence to carry out the threat I had so boastingly pronounced.

From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne

His immoral life was lived ostentatiously and boastingly.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Cunningham, Francis A. (Francis Aloysius)

The man told the story boastingly to one of the servants of Lord Arundel, who was also a suitor of the queen's.

From Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

He spoke rather boastingly; perhaps more to impress his followers than from impulse.

From The Strength of the Pines by Marshall, Edison