rhodomontade
Americannoun
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We are not forgetful of the fact that Mrs. Hemans, who wrote some creditable verse, and the placid Wordsworth, discussed this ode, and agreed that it was little else than the rhodomontade of a schoolboy.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
Involved, obscure, inflated as Chapman's phrasing not infrequently is, it is not mere rhodomontade, sound, and fury, signifying nothing.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
My dear Haydon—Upon my Soul I never felt your going out of the room at all—and believe me I never rhodomontade anywhere but in your Company—my general Life in Society is silence.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats
I don't believe all that rhodomontade about another world,' said he gruffly; 'the Republic settled that question.'
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
To him all Hampstead's theories were sheer rhodomontade.
From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope
But as luncheon is coming and we must go directly to the Admiralty to see Captain Beaufort, and then to the Carrs'—no more rhodomontading to-day.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
If he's never so much upon the stilts, that's always a sure way to bring him down, by reason he soon finds there's nothing to be got by rhodomontading.
From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney
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