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Until then I reserve myself for higher duties which are directly laid upon me: it is not permitted to me to leap from the chariot for the sake of wrestling with every loud vaunter.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Alas! you know I am no vaunter, I; My scars can witness, dumb although they are, That my report is just and full of truth.

From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William

Or shall I rather of Xantippus ask, Who dar'd to undeceive deluded Rome, And prove this vaunter not invincible?

From The Inflexible Captive A Tragedy, in Five Acts by More, Hannah

Who would not forgive so cajoling a vaunter?

From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)

The king was old and sad; the state of his kingdom preyed upon his mind; he was surrounded by influences hostile to his nephew, whom he himself called "a vaunter of crimes."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert