bravadoes
- plural of bravado.
Example Sentences
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For, one day, a band of valiant men of Thurgau, incited by the bailiff from Uri, had tried to surprise the city, in order to punish her for her bravadoes against the Swiss.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 The Later Renaissance: from Gutenberg to the Reformation by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Now, failure on every hand awaited him, and all those bravadoes with which he had kept down his better nature deserted him.
From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Ashton, Warren T.
This is not, as might be supposed, one of those bravadoes of the timid, who shout before Death in order to deaden the sound of his footsteps.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
These bravadoes caused great irritation; still, the Spanish warriors were restrained by the prohibition of the king.
From Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by Irving, Washington
And without being blown into splinters by artillery, how many of these Redoubtables and Invincibles have succumbed to the waves, and like braggarts gone down before hurricanes, with their bravadoes broad on their bows.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
