When induced to speak of them, do not dwell too long upon them, and do not speak boastfully.

He was much more given to reflection than to talk, and he was never known to speak boastfully of any of his achievements.

Some spoke boastfully of the achievements that would be performed by the Romans, when their expected auxiliaries arrived from Ravenna.

As usual he spoke boastfully at last, and said that he had offered peace to us, and if war came, it would be our faults.

"The lad did not speak boastfully, when he said he was a fair swordsman," he muttered to himself.