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He actually swaggers, and, as he does so, he can fill a garden or a wood at the end of October with the pleasure of spring The large titmouse in its dark cap, and the blue-tit, almost too pretty for an English winter in its blue and yellow coat, also hasten to the feast of the berries.

—The Pleasures of Ignorance

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He swaggers, full of local beer, and eager to get to his wife. — Red As Blood
The pairing with punk-greats (o.k., just one punk great) makes complete sense as the album boils down an assortment of hard sounds and pours them into a mold that creates an album that spits, swaggers, bleeds and breathes some toxic life into the benign world of punk. — PegasusNews.com stories: Music
He yells and swaggers, while a continued stream of white men saunters back and forth from the smoker to buy and hear. — Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil
Now I will not say that no mountaineer ever swaggers: the quality called by the vulgar "bounce" is unluckily confined to no profession. — English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice
He actually swaggers, and, as he does so, he can fill a garden or a wood at the end of October with the pleasure of spring The large titmouse in its dark cap, and the blue-tit, almost too pretty for an English winter in its blue and yellow coat, also hasten to the feast of the berries. — The Pleasures of Ignorance