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Definition of Bragged
1. brag [v] - See also: brag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bragged
Literary usage of Bragged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana by John Thomas Payne, Henry Foss, Thomas Grenville, William Brenchley Rye (1842)
"... Bookseller at Chester and often bragged of comparing the King to an Owl, the
Royal Family to Cranes and the Clergy and their Followers to Apes, ..."
2. Niphon and Pe-che-li; Or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China by Edward Barrington De Fonblanque (1862)
"nada," at which he laughs ; and, with a wave of the big fan, he shuffles off,
and turns up no more. "We bragged a good deal at ..."
3. Duelling Stories of the Sixteenth Century from the French of Brantôme by George Herbert Powell, Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (1904)
"And we are to consider that he, the victor, did quite right, as the man bragged
so, and refused to accept mercy, while on the other hand the victim showed ..."
4. Hamlet, and As You Like it: A Specimen of a New Edition of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, Thomas Caldecott, William Crowe, John Murray (1819)
"... which he held to his throate, and afterward bragged that he had taken the
kindliest and the bravest revenge of his enemie that ever man did, ..."
5. The Attaché: Or Sam Slick in England by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856)
"But Willis bragged ... bragged, and they all bragged of the Lords they knowed to
England; and then Cooper bragged of the Lords he refused to know there;-and ..."
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