An instance of boastful talk.
1 His bluster and gasconade desert him, and leave him in pitiful case.
2 That they were captured by the Indian seems too much of a gasconade .
3 This gasconade made the whole court laugh, even Catherine.
4 We hear of no gasconade on her part.
5 I love their jolly abandon of manner, their kindness and "honesty," and their gasconade .
6 This, however, was no better than a gasconade .
7 The French are much out of humour with their Algerine follies, and heartily tired of their expensive gasconade .
8 We of the North have heard much said in denunciation of us, and have thought it political clap-trap and gasconade .
9 Indeed, the Gascons, whose name is identified with boasting, ( gasconade , ) were always among the bravest races in Europe.
10 One cause of this is the wilful blindness and silly gasconade of some of those who lead and form public opinion.
11 His late gasconade has done him great mischief; it is said that Charles Ellis disapproved it strongly before he wrote the letter.
12 In fact, the government in Paris, having neither troops nor money to send to the interior, evaded the difficulty by a parliamentary gasconade .
13 Notwithstanding the gasconade of his report of his negative victory over Admiral Calder, Villeneuve is not a Gascon by birth, but only, by sentiment.
14 This is at the foot of a bluff facing the Gasconade , 2½ miles below Gascondy.
15 In short, all France resounded with gasconades , of which Bonaparte alone knew perfectly the secret.
16 A hotel known as the California House was our stopping-place, ten miles from the Gasconade .
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