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• It was not impossible but Helen might realise her playful vaunt, and beat me in my own art after all John (our gardening lad) was as near being jealous as possible, and, considering the estimation in which John is known to hold our doings in the flower way, such jealousy must be accepted as the most flattering testimony to his rival's success. —  Country Lodgings
• Fool! that person and those virtues of which you vaunt, are with me his worst offences--they have undone my love and marred my fortunes--the easy heart of Geraldine is captivated by the stripling's specious outside, while his talents and achievements secure him with the uncle undivided favour Bert. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
• This vaunt, as regards the latter part, was almost literally carried out, and to some extent as regards the former During the earlier part of the siege a welcome addition was made to the Spanish forces. —  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
• The public ear In Ilium shall from Hector's lips be told 170 I drove Tydides--fearing me he fled So shall he vaunt, and may the earth her jaws That moment opening swallow me alive Him answer'd the Gerenian warrior old What saith the son of Tydeus, glorious Chief 175 Should Hector so traduce thee as to call Thee base and timid, neither Trojan him Nor Dardan would believe, nor yet the wives Of numerous shielded warriors brave of Troy Widow'd by thy unconquerable arm 180 So saying, he through the fugitives his steeds Turn'd swift to flight. —  The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
• "You vaunt, then," retorted the prince, "that which a ploughman or cart-driver can do better than you I can do more," said the tutor, "for I can govern foolish children." —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield

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