1
The boast was a vain boast, the heat of passion alone prompting it.
2
These famous words imputed to Louis XIV expressed no vain boast of royal power.
3
Say what we will, our civilization is a vain boast.
4
Their departure from the country was a vain boast, for whither should they go?
5
What could it profit his soul to make good a vain boast to Eve de Montalais?
6
And that was no vain boast either.
7
It is no vain boast in him to say, 'I fear God, and know no other fear.'
8
But what do I mean by the vain boast that I have always trained my children thus?
9
It had been a vain boast indeed!
10
I mention this not in vain boast, but as a testimony to the fact that God answers prayer.
11
He told her, months afterward, that he did; but it may have been a vain boast, an excuse.
12
The minstrel made no vain boast of the skill which he possessed in the use of pen and ink.
13
He, on the contrary, insisted no less on embellishment than on neatness and order; and this was no vain boast.
14
In the light of Britz's explanation of the case, his confident assertion could only be regarded as a vain boast.
15
When he came to the command of the army it seemed possible that his vain boast might be fulfilled in both particulars.
16
I am certain, and I possess proofs; now this crime makes my certitude but a vain boast, and renders my proofs null and void!
