Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombasts
Literary usage of Bombasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Jean Calvin, Calvin translation society (1855)
"... it means what is pompous, inflated, bombastic; but these bombasts were those
of vanity, being empty, useless, unprofitable; or as some render the words, ..."
2. Commentaries on the catholic epistles, tr. and ed. by J. Owen by Jean [comms. on the Bible] Calvin (1855)
"... word as used often in the Sept.; they spoke false things in a bombastic and
inflated strain.—Ed. " For uttering bombasts of vanity, they allure," &c. ..."
3. Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People, Comprising by Hamilton Wright Mabie (1894)
"On the other hand, the Northern people believed the Southerners to be led by
bombasts who would take pause in their aggressive actions whenever compelled to ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... them in a style of poetry previously unattempted by him, —the Pindaric ode,
a poetic form which helped him to surpass himself in furious bombasts. ..."
5. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"If Shakspeare were stripped of all the bombasts in his passions, and dressed in
the most vulgar words, we should find the beauties of his thoughts remaining ..."
6. European Theories of the Drama: An Anthology of Dramatic Theory and by Barrett Harper Clark (1918)
"... 'tis roaring madness instead of vehemence; and a sound of words instead of sense.
If Shakspeare were stripped of all the bombasts in his passions, ..."
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