Arrogant gait

Usage examples of swagger.

For some years, in spite of a loud voice, a large presence, an aggressive swagger, and an implacable manner, he had been an undistinguished member of most of the existing aeronautical associations.

In the hot blaze of police flares, three Chicano youths swaggered down the ruined street.

Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.

The scant regulars who still patronized the Broken Spar looked up from their drinks in a pickled haze, the silent misery on their faces yielding to fear as Gell MarBoreth, Knight of the Lily, swaggered in.

Boastful of his own iniquity, swaggering in his wickedness, fatuous with self-love, he recounted his deeds with gusto and with particularity.

I was taking a walk in the Tuileries, not thinking any more of my female extortioner, when a small man, with his hat cocked on one side of his head and a large nosegay in his button-hole, and sporting a long sword, swaggered up to me and informed me, without any further explanation, that he had a fancy to cut my throat.

Wherever he went, Kesk liked to stride arrogantly, his head bare and sneering tanarukk face on display, his battle-axe in his hand, and several of his henchmen swaggering along behind him.

Obviously unchastened, Lache swaggered off to the buttery-kitchen, leaving Joshua to drag the heavy tables into place, which he did with the ease of moving chessmen.

Over this regalia he battened an armor of ridged lamellae in which he swaggered for half a day until the heat became unbearable and, rather irresponsibly, he abandoned his outer casing under a tree like some drab cicada reaching adulthood.

This, then, this flamboyantly swaggering man was Mauger de Cotaine of Often whom all in the shire credited with the sheltering of the men who constantly raided their property.

He acknowledged a conspiratorial wink from Noddy Gallagher as he swaggered, with Muriel on his arm, from the hall.

I neither swaggered nor skulked, but went from cell to dining hall to my prison job with the unhurried deliberation of an ordinary man engaged upon his daily business, and I resisted, thanks to my hostility toward every sort of authority, therapy sessions designed to turn me inward, to coerce an analysis of the family difficulties and street pressures that had nourished my criminality, with the idea of liberating me from my past.

Anthony Nathan, as he obnoxiously swaggered around the front of the courtroom.

The Judge Pyncheon of the tale is also a masterly study of swaggering black-hearted respectability, and then, in addition to all the poetry of his style, and the charm of his haunted air, Hawthorne favours us with a brave conclusion of the good sort, the old sort.

Catriona had thought they must be the few middle risk health professionals or food administrators who worked here, but according to Dot, most of them were high riskers too, just ones with different tastes and standards, people who felt uncomfortable in the glaring, swaggering streets in which they were forced to live.