rhodomontade

• I let the Pope run on to the end of his rhodomontade, [3] and then asked him for a mace-bearers place which happened to be vacant. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• Not Lord Brompton, with all his rhodomontade--the King liked to call it rhodomontade; it soothed a certain uneasy feeling he had had at times about his own part in the affair. —  The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow
• There is almost none of that rhodomontade which pervades the other romances, except as to "Sidonia" and the supremacy of the Hebrew race--a topic on which Benjamin himself was hardly sane. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
• Then Sir Francis closed his reply with this rhodomontade: "In the name of every regiment of militia in Upper Canada, I publicly promulgate 'Let them come if they dare'" He dissolved the legislature and went directly to the country on the issue that the British connection was endangered by the Reformers. —  Canada under British Rule 1760-1900
• His reports were without rhodomontade or exaggeration, and his tone uniformly modest, composed, and uninflated. —  A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

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