Forwent modesty

Usage examples of boasted.

A young officer, one amongst many military men who were courting her, when Marshal de Richelieu was commanding in Genoa, boasted of being treated by her with more favour than all the others, and one day, in the very coffee-room where we met, he advised a brother officer not to lose his time in courting her, because he had no chance whatever of obtaining any favour.

My business was in reference to a carriage, for the one I had boasted of existed only in my imagination.

The Saint Hilaire was highly pleased with me, and she boasted of it before her companions.

It is very natural for me to suppose that to the two thoughtless acts of which you have been guilty, you have added another not less serious, namely, that of having boasted of your exploits with the other nuns, and I do not want to be the butt of your jokes in cell or parlour.

All the ballet-girls were pretty, and all of them boasted of having been enjoyed at least once by my lord.

He neither boasted of nor concealed his knowledge, but let it run like a limpid stream flowing through the meadows.

Costa, who had boasted of his skill in making chocolate in the Spanish fashion, received orders to make us three cups in the morning.

Roman theatre, and five or six abbes, the husband of every wife and the wives of every husband, who boasted of their wickedness, and challenged the girls to be more shameless than they.

I knew that he boasted that he was sure of me, but in my own mind I had determined to gain the mastery.

Faro went on, and the company was composed of trustworthy persons who neither boasted of their gains nor bewailed their losses to anyone, and so there was no fear of the Government discovering this infrigement of the law against gaming.

He had been the beloved of the minister Teploff, and, like a lad of wit, he not only was not ashamed but openly boasted that it was his custom to secure the goodwill of all men by his caresses.

He boasted that his father, a bad Bohemian artist, had brought him up with the stick.

He boasted that jealousy was utterly foreign to his character, and maintained that the true lover would accustom himself to see his mistress inspire desires in other men.

You went upstairs and forced her to bed, and you boasted of it afterward in this very room.

The banquet was laid in the largest hall of the main palace building, a hall which, one of the table servants boasted to me, would accommodate six thousand diners at a single seating.