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Definition of Boastings
1. boasting [n] - See also: boasting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boastings
Literary usage of Boastings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Death in Rebel Prisons: Giving a Complete History of the Inhuman by Robert H. Kellogg (1865)
"Whether they thought of this amid their boastings or not, we can not say; but
History may suggest the thought to them in coming tune, if they live to see it ..."
2. Two Hundred and Nine Days: Or, The Journal of a Traveller on the Continent by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1827)
"... from one guard to another, and all the military boastings about the strength
of the place, would have made the ascent a tiresome bore. ..."
3. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"... were as clever, were as diligent as Mrs. Brown's Toby, is a cry from the
mother's heart, not so loud, but quite as deep, as her boastings. ..."
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