Crossword-Solution: BRAGGERS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then Ire came in with sturt[19] and strife, His hand was aye upon his knife, He brandish'd like a beir; Boasters, braggers, and barganeris,[20] After him passed into pairis,[21] All bodin in feir of weir.[22] In jackis, scripis, and bonnets of steel, Their legs were chenyiet[23] to the heel, Froward was their affeir,[24] Some upon other with brands beft,[25] Some jaggit[26] others to the heft[27] With knives that sharp could shear.

Would to God they would leave their old accustomed choosing of burgesses! For whom do they choose but such as be rich or bear some office in the country, many times such as be boasters and braggers? Such have they ever hitherto chosen; be he never so very a fool, drunkard, extortioner, adulterer, never so covetous and crafty a person, yet, if he be rich, bear any office, if he be a jolly cracker and bragger in the country, he must be a burgess of Parliament.

The preference of Brag over Speculation does not greatly surprise me, I believe, because I feel the same myself; but it mortifies me deeply, because Speculation was under my patronage; and, after all, what is there so delightful in a pair royal of Braggers? It is but three nines or three knaves, or a mixture of them.

You told us yourself that you did it twenty times, and there's the English colonel that made the bet with you, and he'll be saying, if you don't do it, that the Irish are all braggers; so, my dear fellow, it just comes to this--you must either leap the pond or fight me; for, relying upon your word, I told the colonel I saw you do it myself.' "'I must fight you or leap the pond, is it?' answered Jem, trembling from head to foot.

And the lark and the cat, They're nothing but braggers--I wouldn't give that." [Illustration: 0051] (And the cow snapped her tail as you'd snap your thumb) "For all the babies, and kittens, and birds, that come In the course of a year! It does make me laugh To look at them all, by the side of a calf! "Why, my little Brindle as soon as 'twas born Stood up on its legs, and sniffed at the corn; Before it had been in the world an hour It began to gambol, and canter, and scour All over the fields.