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Usage examples of vaunt.

A few moments later Sigurd Ring awoke from his feigned sleep, and after telling Frithiof that he had recognized him from the first, had tested him in many ways, and had always found his honor fully equal to his vaunted courage, he bade him be patient a little longer, for his end was very near, and said that he would die happy if he could leave Ingeborg, his infant heir, and his kingdom in such good hands.

The vaunted South Florida Building Code deliberately was weakened to allow faster, cheaper work.

All the same, the vaunted honour and loyalty of the Swiss do not prevent them from fleecing strangers, at least as much as the Dutch, but the greenhorns who let themselves be cheated, learn thereby that it is well to bargain before-hand, and then they treat one well and charge reasonably.

The Germans, despite their vaunted military talents, lacked any grand strategic concept.

Eireann against whom I any longer dare hurl you and your justly vaunted forces, I first toyed with the thought of just sending you and yours back to Cousin Arthur with sincere thanks for the loan of you all, then I thought me of the Great Eireann venture, and I still may ask that you go there with enough ships and men to make it mine, but first I must know if that grim, dangerous old man on Islay considers Great Eireann, too, to be under this damned, hellish, illegal, and immoral treaty he has signed and sealed with that onetime mercenary, sometime jackanapes, scurvy bastard who now styles himself Righ of Connachta, holds the Jewel of Connachta, withholding it from me, his Ard-Righ, despite my many and most courteous requests for it that it may be safely held here for Connachta and him as I now hold the Magical Jewels of Mide, Lagan, Breifne, the Northern Ui Neills, and Airgialla.

What they sum up to is this: that what was once vaunted as a Constitution of Rights, both State rights and private rights, has been replaced to a great extent by a Constitution of Powers.

He and Penny were currently up at Squam Lake where the weather was grey and their mattresses were musty and he complained he had yet to see hide nor hair of one of the vaunted loons, for, apparently, some movie had been filmed at the lake featuring the loons.

Y-wis, I am a vaunter, at the least, And eke a liar, for I break my hest.

Rome either, but he shrugged, affected to be unimpressed with anything he saw, and declared himself bored with its vaunted attractions.

Therefore she set herself to make known far and wide the sign of favour which the gods of Egypt had given me in the birth of an Apis among my herd, and, as I learned afterwards, even wrote or sent messages to old friends of hers about the court, who had been servants of Apries, to tell them what had come to pass and to vaunt my wealth and favour among the people.

In ways devoid of his own vaunted subtlety, it was conveyed to Solon that Little Arcady expected him to do something.

He could not even tell the killers how much they depended on the bots, who worked at jobs and for pay scales no human would accept, or on the gengineers, who had appeared just before the vaunted Machine Age must have used up the resources it required.

Pistol, who has, of course, imposed on the credulous Fluellen with his vaunting words rather than with any actual deeds.

So much power, so much magic, so many ancient skills possessed by no one else in Tira Virte, not even the Viehos Fratos, who did not know they themselves and their vaunted Gifts were no more than leavings on the platter presented by Al-Fansihirro.

Therefore, ere going a step further, Pandarus prays Troilus to give him pledges of secrecy, and impresses on his mind the mischiefs that flow from vaunting in affairs of love.