gasconading

• Little towers remain, supposed shrines of Mercury, protector of commerce and travel; pieces of statues are found; but the Temples, the Amphitheatres, the Forums, have disappeared, and even more completely, the rude Christian churches of that early period Although the province has no Mediterranean coast and could not be molested by the marauders of that busy sea, it lay directly upon the route of armies between France and Spain; and it is no "gasconading" to say that it was for centuries one of the greatest battle-fields of the South. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• Magnanimous Republic!--Let her fill her coffers from those towns and cities, which she has plundered; and grant peace, if she can, to the shades of those millions, whose death she has caused But Columbia stoops not to tyrants; her sons will never cringe to France; neither a supercilious, five-headed Directory, nor the gasconading pilgrim of Egypt will ever dictate terms to sovereign America. —  The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
• Sixty or eighty thousand of our most useful citizens are there, and are entitled to such protection from the government as their case requires How different this compact directness from the tremendous fulmination of the Dartmouth junior, who said Columbia stoops not to tyrants; her spirit will never cringe to France; neither a supercilious, five-headed Directory nor the gasconading pilgrim of Egypt will ever dictate terms to sovereign America. —  Famous Americans of Recent Times
• He was famous for much gasconading, and a fondness for whisky and other material things. —  Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation
• It was only for a moment, of course; but the count cautiously drew a little back as the gasconading corporal, in blue uniform, white vest, and white gaiters--for my friend Gaillarde was as loud and swaggering in his assumed character as in his real one of a colonel of dragoons--drew near. —  The Room in the Dragon Volant

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