rhodomontade
Americannoun
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This is the most unaccountable rhodomontade that I ever uttered.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
The romance of her life had become to her a rhodomontade of which she was ashamed.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
His Memoirs are good reading for those with a touch of the fantastic in themselves; but the average literary critic will dub them rhodomontade.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
He believed no part of the rhodomontade but that which declared their inability to discharge the bill, and he talked loudly, in his turn, of putting them into the hands of the police.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
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
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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