fanfaronading

That was her answer to all the fanfaronading and commotion — a precaution so obvious and elementary that no one else in the world seemed to have thought of it, so flawless and unassailable that the Saint's boast was exploded before he even began, so supremely ridiculously simple that it would make the whole earth quake with laughter when the story broke.

The Saint on Guard Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1943

Buckingham's fanfaronading, thrasonical disposition, a form of vain, empty boasting peculiar to megalomaniacs.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

That tall, fanfaronading fellow hath a power to anger me, -- not his words alone, but the man himself ....

Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston 1903

They wore huge whiskers, and walked with a fanfaronading air, as if they courted danger, and despised it.

The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

There with ceremonial evolution and manoeuvre, with fanfaronading, musketry-salvoes, and what else the Patriot genius could devise, they made oath and obtestation to stand faithfully by one another, under Law and King; in particular, to have all manner of grains, while grains there were, freely circulated, in spite both of robber and regrater.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

King of Prussia; fanfaronading Emigrants and war-god Broglie, 'for some consolation to mankind,' which verily is not without need of some.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Successive, simultaneous dirl of thirty thousand muskets shouldered; prance and jingle of ten-thousand horsemen, fanfaronading Emigrants in the van; drum, kettle-drum; noise of weeping, swearing; and the immeasurable lumbering clank of baggage-waggons and camp-kettles that groan into motion: all this is Brunswick shaking himself; not without all this does the one man march, 'covering a space of forty miles.'

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Such fanfaronading is very well on the part of Tom Dibdin, but a person of your Royal Highness's "pious and severe dignity" should have been above it.

The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

They wore huge whiskers, and walked with a fanfaronading air, as if they courted danger, and despised it.

The Bible in Spain 1712

a substance and articulate-speaking piece of Human Valour, not a fanfaronading hollow Spectrum and squeaking and gibbering Shadow!

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838