rhodomontades

Despite his trademark fulminations and rhodomontades, it would appear that Lord Black of Crossharbour will not be hounding his world of enemies in his customary barratrous fashion anytime soon, as he had threatened to do before his trial commenced.

Archive 2007-07-01 2007

Despite his trademark fulminations and rhodomontades, it would appear that Lord Black of Crossharbour will not be hounding his world of enemies in his customary barratrous fashion anytime soon, as he had threatened to do before his trial commenced.

Black day in July 2007

Or maybe that just took someone in the PMO with a tin ear who was trying to suck up to the Cheney/Bush regime by proving that Canadians too can perform Orwellian rhodomontades, and who was obviously too ignorant to know that he had just summoned up one of the worst memories of state terrorism in Western history.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: November 2007 Archives 2007

This circumstance was a great consolation to us, who thence took occasion to claim the victory; and the genius of the French nation never appeared more conspicuous than now, in the rhodomontades they uttered on the subject of their generosity and courage.

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

His business was to deal in Spanish rhodomontades, to kick out the native Italian Capitan, in compliment to the Spaniards, and then to take a quiet caning from

A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

The weariness of a whole generation is expressed in his faint-hearted, listless words, as also in the blustering but ineffective rhodomontades of the tipsy choir-singer

Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

He frequently and magnanimously offered us his friendship, but at that time more attention was paid to the vain boastings of the lieutenants of the guard; and the rhodomontades of

Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

But I have no mind to weary you with poetical rhodomontades till, as most lovers do, I have proven her a paragon and myself an imbecile: it suffices to say that her face, and shape, and mien, and wit, alike astounded and engaged all those who had the happiness to know her; and had long ago rendered her the object of my entire adoration and the target of my daily rhapsodies.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

Charles, whose brain was stuffed with romance and chivalric rhodomontades.

The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

They badgered him, but they let him harangue them, and applauded his rhodomontades.

In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907