Bravado

Then she made that great answer which will live forever; made it without fuss or bravado, and yet how fine and noble was the sound of it: "I will tell you nothing more than I have told you; no, not even if you tear the limbs from my body. And even if in my pain I did say something otherwise, I would always say afterward that it was the torture that spoke and not I."

And now there's Dólokhov sitting in the snow with a forced smile and perhaps dying, while meeting my remorse with some forced bravado!" Pierre was one of those people who, in spite of an appearance of what is called weak character, do not seek a confidant in their troubles. He digested his sufferings alone. "It is all, all her fault," he said to himself; "but what of that?

He remembered the angry bravado with which he had once described this face-?from-?a-?dream, telling the Reverend Mother Gains Helen Mohiam: "I will meet her."

Other men might reconsider words spoken in drunken bravado, but Robert Baratheon would remember and, remembering, would never back down.

For all the bravado the dwarf had shown, he seems leery of being seen.

"Why did we stay?" he asked with a sense of disillusionment, as though he had just discovered that his past courage was bravado merely.

Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant. Dushasana full of bravado one minute. Cringing the next.

On the first day of his life as a strikebreaker Jurgis quit work early, and in a spirit of bravado he challenged three men of his acquaintance to go outside and get a drink.

Hermione was staring at Ron, who refused to look at her, but said with an odd mixture of bravado and awkwardness, "Hi, Harry! Wondered where you'd got to!"

There was no longer any deceit or bravado in the manner of the accused.

It was customary with him, he recited, with what sounded more like silly bravado than he had intended, to be in a bad scrape and not know the full particulars until the next morning.

Kolya, who was almost the youngest of the party and rather looked down upon by the others in consequence, was moved by vanity or by reckless bravado to bet them two roubles that he would lie down between the rails at night when the eleven o'clock train was due, and would lie there without moving while the train rolled over him at full speed.

She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, out of bravado and with rage in her heart.

Leto recognized hysteria in the Duncan, barely covered by the warrior bravado.

His bravado returned with a rush at the sound.

It had had all the elements of a gesture—the weapon, the striking down of the victim while in a place of supposed safety, the whole bravado of the thing.

So you listen, or I'll swear I'll knock the shit out of you." "Go ahead," Norton said, still grinning with a kind of insane palsied bravado. His eyes, bloodshot and wide, bulged from their sockets. "Show everyone how big and brave you are, beating up a man with a heart condition who is old enough to be your father." "Sock him anyway!" Jim exclaimed. "Fuck his heart condition.

Ruthie, in a burst of bravado, boosted her skirt and sat down.

And with an air of bravado he held out his great arm.

So far did his unparalleled madness go; but the noble lion, more courteous than arrogant, not troubling himself about silly bravado, after having looked all round, as has been said, turned about and presented his hindquarters to Don Quixote, and very coolly and tranquilly lay down again in the cage.