rhodomontade
Americannoun
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All his Irish rhodomontade went straight out of my head, and I ran to him.
From Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
Was there ever a literature in Irish or merely a collection of ridiculous rhodomontade?
From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
To him all Hampstead's theories were sheer rhodomontade.
From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony
The romance of her life had become to her a rhodomontade of which she was ashamed.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Trollope, Anthony
All the absurd rhodomontade of his strange Memoirs notwithstanding, there are gleams of rare beauty in the story of his passion, which raise him to the level of the great lovers.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
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 Hare, Augustus J. C.
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 Burney, Fanny
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