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  • The impermanence of a collapsible church added to the frivolity, and their eyes flashed and winked and the girls giggled little silver drops in the dusk while the boys postured and swaggered and pretended not to notice.   (source)
    swaggered = walked or behaved in a highly confident manner
  • They would swagger and pick on outsiders and persecute anyone who didn't speak as they did.   (source)
    swagger = walk and behave in a highly confident manner
  • For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.   (source)
    swagger = highly confident walk and behavior
  • He cautioned her about the catches on the windows and doors and swaggered off to Winter Park.   (source)
    swaggered = walked in a highly confident manner
  • In fact, his conduct approached that of a bully, and he was given to swaggering up and down before Spitz's very nose.   (source)
    swaggering = walking in a highly confident manner
  • Billy the Mule stumped off with the swaggering limp of an old campaigner, as the troop-horse's head came nuzzling into my breast, and I gave him biscuits, while Vixen, who is a most conceited little dog, told him fibs about the scores of horses that she and I kept.   (source)
    swaggering = highly confident or proud
  • He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.   (source)
    swagger = confidence or pride
  • He reflected that this coalition of four young, brave, enterprising, and active men ought to have some other object than swaggering walks, fencing lessons, and practical jokes, more or less witty.   (source)
    swaggering = displaying pride and confidence
  • A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city.†   (source)
  • Malfoy swaggered forward when his name was called and got his wish at once: the hat had barely touched his head when it screamed, "SLYTHERIN!"†   (source)
  • The four of them trotted up the track far enough that a passing motorist wouldn't make much of them—a boy and some dogs—and then, as the night came on, he ambled along, tie to tie, feeling content and even swaggering a bit at the thought of their success raiding the farm.†   (source)
  • He was older than the men in Eddie's troop, a lifetime military man with a lanky swagger and a prominent chin that gave him a resemblance to a movie actor of the day.†   (source)
  • Corinne was not taken in by Danny's pretense of being the squire of Mercer House—she knew, as everyone in Savannah knew, that Jim Williams owned the house—but she played along, because the charade seemed to put spunk in Danny's swagger.†   (source)
  • Goeth was a stout man with an arrogant sneer and a bully's swagger.†   (source)
  • No bold, swaggering expressions strutted across her face as the glow of the castle rippled in her eyes.†   (source)
  • Walking with Owen Meany at Hampton Beach was ill-advised; he was so strikingly small, he was teased and roughed up by the delinquent young men who tilted the pinball machines and swaggered in the heated vicinity of the girls in their cotton-candy-colored clothes.†   (source)
  • One of his shoes is untied but, with his belly leading the way, he has a new swagger in his step.†   (source)
  • Feeling they had the upper hand and wanting to quit while they were ahead, Du Hai and Yang Fan picked up their schoolbags and swaggered off.†   (source)
  • A swaggering recklessness was taking hold.†   (source)
  • And now I can see him, see that pointed white grin and his eyes so dark and cruel, and he's swaggering through the crowd, he's got us surrounded with punks, everywhere I turn there's another mean face trying to look as tough as Tony D. In a small voice I say, "Tell me what to do," and Freak pats me on the shoulder and says, "Just give me a nanosecond to process the alternatives."†   (source)
  • Despite my swaggering confidence, I wasn't able to outwit it.†   (source)
  • He swaggered a little, making sure his little brother noticed.†   (source)
  • He was a swaggering bantam rooster of a youth, too young and too hot-blooded for Ned's taste, though a fast friend of Catelyn's brother, Edmure Tully.†   (source)
  • Mer watches him swagger down the hall and shakes her head.†   (source)
  • He loved to berate me in front of his men, my dad — swaggering around like a Mafia boss, saying I owed him money for this and that, taking it out of my quote unquote 'salary.'†   (source)
  • Why swagger, then?†   (source)
  • The glowing swords begin swaggering forward from forty feet away.†   (source)
  • Michael Oher now had a swagger about him.†   (source)
  • Watching John Wayne swagger across the street, gun riding low on his hip, his father said, "Because nobody knows how powerful these organizations— maybe there's more than one—are today.†   (source)
  • Nurses swaggered in, bothered and tired.†   (source)
  • It is a grizzly bear, enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs.†   (source)
  • The policemen in our town had the most boring jobs in the world, but they still liked to strut around with a swagger or sit in coffee shops while they talked about the "big crime," as if they'd cracked the case of the Lindbergh baby.†   (source)
  • By this time he was very excited and nervous, and swaggering as well, and proud of his own daring.†   (source)
  • Jimmy swaggered over to the phone with a huge smile on his face.†   (source)
  • There was a swaggering air of self-importance about the children.†   (source)
  • Maples had seen many such boys come his way and was never cowed by their youthful swagger; he was only on rare occasions impressed or prepared to view them as his equal.†   (source)
  • Usually the men addressed as Chairman had bald heads and frowns, and swaggered down the street with groups of junior executives scurrying behind.†   (source)
  • Under all his swagger, that man had a good heart.†   (source)
  • A raucous commotion filled the clearing as Jormundur and his men directed the onlookers back to their tents, laying about them with swagger sticks whenever the reluctant warriors lingered or protested.†   (source)
  • But what meant most to Kenyon-and Bob, too-was their weekend, overnight hunting hikes along the shores of the river: wandering, wrapping up in blankets, listening at sunrise for the noise of wings, moving toward the sound on tiptoe, and then, sweetest of all, swaggering homeward with a dozen duck dinners swinging on their belts.†   (source)
  • He was small in stature, as are most Iranian men; nevertheless-or perhaps because of that-he carried himself with an insolent swagger.†   (source)
  • And he threw his chin in the air and swaggered toward the box office.†   (source)
  • They did not threaten us in the swaggering way that I recalled from my previous stay, and betrayed no emotion.†   (source)
  • He looks quickly from side to side, and when he realizes that no one in the crowd has noticed anything, he straightens his lapels in righteous indignation and swaggers toward the back entrance.†   (source)
  • … you too, Mr. McMurphy, for all your cowboy bluster and your sideshow swagger, you too, under that crusty surface, are probably just as soft and fuzzy and rabbit-souled as we are.†   (source)
  • When Rafa showed himself an hour later, swaggering in from a game of pool, I'd already tried to speak to Mami and Abuelo like five times.†   (source)
  • He stepped with an independent stride that was almost a swagger, and already felt himself a successful man; but that one of the tribe of borrowing Passmores should presume to such opulence of charm struck him as well-nigh impudent.†   (source)
  • Swaggering his way through foot-thick government reports.†   (source)
  • That night the man boasted of his audacity and swaggered over his good luck on the Street of the Turks a few minutes before the kick of a horse crushed his chest and a crowd of outsiders saw him die in the middle of the street, drowned in his own bloody vomiting.†   (source)
  • He looks like a rock star, but he has none of a rock star's swagger and braggadocio and staginess.†   (source)
  • Like all bullies, they're cowards underneath the swagger."†   (source)
  • It was a thought that chilled Ryan as he watched Maxwell swagger down the hall.†   (source)
  • I think he just wanted us to appreciate how well he swaggered in his new yellow pith helmet.†   (source)
  • Laughing, John shook his head as Adam swaggered into the hall, flexing again for Brian Bill, who shielded his eyes from the vision of his fellow SEAL, naked except for his Batman briefs.†   (source)
  • "This was an isolate and cut-off area," he said, gripping the microphone with pop-star swagger.†   (source)
  • He'd been a member of the WBP gang before joining the robotics team, and he tried to walk with a tough guy's swagger.†   (source)
  • Taking risks together the way they did when Milkman was twelve and Guitar was a teen-ager and they swaggered, haunched, leaned, straddled, ran all over town trying to pick fights or at least scare somebody: other boys, girls, dogs, pigeons, old women, school principals, drunks, ice cream vendors, and the horses of junkyard men.†   (source)
  • "We're usually a lot tighter," John Miller told her with a bit of a swagger, "but Ted was off tonight.†   (source)
  • He had breezed in with a swagger that he perhaps did not feel, a seabag full of autographed glossies of showgirls, and a greater thirst than he'd shown before the Bond Tour.†   (source)
  • I'd pile Headmistress's best china on my head and walk with a wobble and a swagger till every piece was smashed.†   (source)
  • He wished to answer something swaggering: Oh, the luck of the gallows… but he only looked at Cuthbert and shook his head.†   (source)
  • He swaggered away happily with the proud smile of a champion, his shriveled head high and his emaciated chest out.†   (source)
  • He walked with a cocky swagger.†   (source)
  • The door swung open again, and a burly man with a swagger in his step stumbled into the alley.†   (source)
  • But the swagger and bluster faded as Jake and Carla slowly realized they had been seriously underinsured.†   (source)
  • Welsh, who'd swaggered under his boast of throwing BoneMan behind bars where he belonged, would wake up tomorrow and learn that not only was BoneMan back, but that he'd taken the daughter he would make his own.†   (source)
  • I headed back for Ras's meeting with a bold swagger.†   (source)
  • But he was probably smarter than Foxlip, although once you got past the swaggering and the bullying, there were probably lobsters who were smarter than Foxlip.†   (source)
  • For the slimmest of seconds he almost grinned and the young, swaggering man peeked through, but disappeared again in the disease that cloaked him.†   (source)
  • He had penetrated that deadly sanctuary, crippled a small fleet of trucks and automobiles by plunging the blade of his knife into every tire, then proceeded to take out each patrol in the Jing Shan forest until he found the torch-lit clearing that held a swaggering maniac and his brigade of fanatics.†   (source)
  • One day not long after, I glimpsed my father, through the window of my cottage, swaggering down the street with a bale of finespun wool, taken from the weaver's cottage, slung over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • He was short, but his cocky swagger compensated for it.†   (source)
  • We were swaggering along like always, laughing and joking like always.†   (source)
  • Even Mr. Vincenti put down his fork to laugh as Lucia swaggered about the room, sucking in her tummy and lowering her voice.†   (source)
  • The Englishman' got up on the stage, and he rapped on the arm of a throne with a swagger stick, called, 'Lads, lads, lad I have your attention, please?'†   (source)
  • Blearily watching this slender young man in his rakish hat and sunglasses, who was carrying himself with what seemed like just the right amount of swagger -- not too much to give offense but enough to get things done -- I had the feeling that somewhere between the United States and East Central Africa he had become a size larger.†   (source)
  • "Get out of here, you lousy, brainless, swaggering moron!" snarled Dr. Stadler.†   (source)
  • "Tonight we celebrate victory, my little friends," Mandiki swaggers.†   (source)
  • A whole generation of young, white, and suburban American males is in thrall to the macho swagger of black rappers and MCs.†   (source)
  • There was a swaggering cockiness to his walk, and he strutted like an imperfect cross between a pit bull and a bird of paradise.†   (source)
  • I described him for the doctor, his walking before me in the schoolyard, stamping the blacktop, announcing our presence with his swagger, his shout.†   (source)
  • Major swaggered across the room, the metal tips on his pointed shoes clicking on the concrete floor.†   (source)
  • I lean in and say to them, "I heard he did it over a girl," and then I swagger all the way to class.†   (source)
  • Like the swaggering pirates, let's make the most and best and worst of what we have.†   (source)
  • The man swaggers in, belches, spits.†   (source)
  • The lift-truck operator, bigger than a mountain bear, swaggered over to me at break.†   (source)
  • You're all such swaggering, bullying idiots — oooh!†   (source)
  • Uncle Harold was not a tall man, but the Marines had taught him to carry himself with a swaggering erect indolence and to measure people with the grave, cool arrogance of authority.†   (source)
  • Zim strode up to the man who had sneezed, shoved the ferrule of the swagger cane an inch under his nose and demanded, "Name?"†   (source)
  • But Cyrus had vitality and swagger.†   (source)
  • They swaggered blades till their perspiration fell upon the ground in showers; and then Yama began to press the attack, slowly, forcing his opponent into a retreat.†   (source)
  • You have to swagger about in an officer's uniform too, you have to do your own bit of saberrattling.†   (source)
  • A handsome, swaggering youth, not for my son.†   (source)
  • She could distinctly see that little boy, swaggering with his hips and whistling, but with a defeated look about his knees and thighs.†   (source)
  • Canica and Smiley swaggered and acted cool, but I knew the mescaline had a lot to do with it.†   (source)
  • "Let's see if you can actually back up your swaggering."†   (source)
  • That wasn't me shuffling along, head bowed, tears welling in my eyes behind a swaggering troll.†   (source)
  • The Lyseni clapped Davos on the back, and swaggered from the inn as if he owned it.†   (source)
  • The hag swaggered into the room behind a belly that protruded far beyond the jut of her chin.†   (source)
  • She swaggered over to retrieve her ball.†   (source)
  • The huge brown eunuch swaggered forward, sheathing his arakh.†   (source)
  • The door opened again, and Hubbard swaggered back in.†   (source)
  • Bellagrog adjusted her pants and swaggered toward Max like a prizefighter.†   (source)
  • But even the common soldiers were a loud, swaggering, boisterous bunch.†   (source)
  • The fool hopped on Jaime's back, giggling, as the Dothraki swaggered toward him.†   (source)
  • We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos puffed up with pride.†   (source)
  • He swaggers even when he is standing still.†   (source)
  • Hubbard swaggered across the room, two older men trailing him.†   (source)
  • Hey, man, you're looking sharp," said Major, swaggering into mirror view.†   (source)
  • I'm not that kind of guy," I said, and swaggered out.†   (source)
  • The girls shrieked and covered their eyes, until the boy swaggered out of the room, acting proud, as if he had seen them all naked.†   (source)
  • He swaggered into the dungeon, his right arm covered in bandages and bound up in a sling, acting, in Harry's opinion, as though he were the heroic survivor of some dreadful battle.†   (source)
  • What we had was bacon and eggs; and it was a wonder to see how he strutted, and swaggered, and ordered the servant about, and said his egg was not well-enough cooked.†   (source)
  • For a long while, Miyagiyama and the other wrestler, whose name was Saiho, swaggered around the mound, scooping up salt and tossing it into the ring, or stamping their feet as sumo wrestlers do.†   (source)
  • The run-up to this crucial match had all the usual features: members of rival Houses attempting to intimidate opposing teams in the corridors; unpleasant chants about individual players being rehearsed loudly as they passed; the team members themselves either swaggering around enjoying all the attention or else dashing into bathrooms between classes to throw up.†   (source)
  • But for all of her swaggering, for all of her gloating and parading about with hands on her hips ….†   (source)
  • A line of deputies at the park's edge — armed with high-powered rifles, billy clubs and tear gas launchers swaggered toward the crowd.†   (source)
  • I would watch him swaggering down the lane and tucking his handkerchief back into his pocket; and soon enough Mrs. Burt gave up on her plan of consolation, and there were no more tea parties in the parlour; and she stopped the supply of milk and bread to us, and asked for her tumblers back, and for the rent to be paid, or she would have us all turned out, bag and baggage.†   (source)
  • There's thousands of Tyrell men swaggering about with little golden roses sewn on their doublets, and not a one is buying his own wine.†   (source)
  • When they came back, they were half a dollar poorer, twenty minutes older, and decidedly more swaggering at the walk.†   (source)
  • Daario Naharis entered swaggering.†   (source)
  • At night the bravos swaggered through the city in their parti-colored finery, spoiling to prove their skill with those slender swords they wore.†   (source)
  • She'd imagined him swaggering into her classroom, hooking his thumbs into the waistband of his pants, and drawling,Now, just what did you want to talk to me about, little lady?†   (source)
  • He's not here, she told herself again, but in that instant she saw him again, swaggering through the crowd, flanked by two friends.†   (source)
  • But I suppose that's what Cordelia and I looked like then, to older people, crossing the street right here with our collars turned up and our eyebrows plucked into sceptical arches, swaggering in our rubber boots and straining for nonchalance, on our way down to Union Station where the trains came in, to put our quarters into the photo machine, four shots in monochrome, wallet-sized.†   (source)
  • Others, considerably less gala—they were on the western edge of 125th Street—stood in knots along the street, switched or swaggered or dawdled by, with glances, sidelong or full face, which were more calculating than curious.†   (source)
  • He was swaggering around the floor like it was the deck of a ship, whistling in his hand like a bosun's whistle.†   (source)
  • We should have swaggered down those disciplined ranks, drunken and out of control, delirious with the powerfulinsulin of our shared history.†   (source)
  • I find myself thinking of Geordie, of laughing and joking and swaggering around the streets with him.†   (source)
  • He swaggered home around one o'clock, bearing a plastic bag loaded with food and a loaf of telera under his arm.†   (source)
  • I thought that the man I would see would be the trim, swaggering, high-toned little rooster of a man who stared back at me from the pages of my mother's photo album, the young soldier clowning around in Korea, the arrow-straight, good-looking boy who posed beside my mother back before the fields and mop handle and the rest of it took her looks.†   (source)
  • 'It might even get me into The Saturday Evening Post,' Colonel Cathcart boasted in his office with a smile, swaggering back and forth convivially as he reproached the chaplain.†   (source)
  • He came in sweaty from the yard and swaggering, and as he took a knee he undressed her with his eyes, the way he always did.†   (source)
  • He was the logger again, the swaggering gambler, the big redheaded brawling Irishman, the cowboy out of the TV set walking down the middle of the street to meet a dare.†   (source)
  • A moment later a man came swaggering through the open door, a Tyroshi even bigger than Lem with a great thick beard, bright green at the ends but growing out grey.†   (source)
  • Who would protect a warm-hearted, simple-minded gnome like Orr from rowdies and cliques and from expert athletes like Appleby who had flies in their eyes and would walk right over him with swaggering conceit and self-assurance every chance they got?†   (source)
  • She sold to swaggering bravos in striped satin, and to keyholders and justiciars in drab coats of brown and grey.†   (source)
  • They say that you've filled the city with swaggering sellswords and unwashed savages, brutes who take what they want and follow no laws but their own.†   (source)
  • For the most part the men seemed to be engaged in swaggering around, talking in loud voices, and clapping one another on the back.†   (source)
  • The bravos swaggered about like peacocks, fingering their swords, whilst the mighty dressed in charcoal grey and purple, blues that were almost black and blacks as dark as a moonless night.†   (source)
  • A hard, one-armed man swaggered around among them, slapping whoever annoyed him with the flat of his own sword, yelling, berating.†   (source)
  • If the gods had given her the strength they gave Jaime and that swaggering oaf Robert, she could have made her own escape.†   (source)
  • Even when he isn't laughing, that laughing sound hovers around him, the way the sound hovers around a big bell just quit ringing-it's in his eyes, in the way he smiles and swaggers, in the way he talks.†   (source)
  • He left swaggering.†   (source)
  • He swaggered across the gym, rolling his big shoulders, stopping only to rap the peanut bag on his way out.†   (source)
  • Guys with good builds swaggered among the blankets and umbrellas, slowing down and sucking in their stomachs whenever they passed girls.†   (source)
  • James turned and swaggered away.†   (source)
  • It was through this piecemeal gathering of bits and pieces that I learned an unnamed man had gotten drunk, come to Anna's house, swaggered and stumbled about the house brandishing a pistol and "talkin' big."†   (source)
  • We swaggered down a grand staircase, music stopped, people stared and gasped—and Star enjoyed being noticed.†   (source)
  • As he walked across the room to the veranda, to escape her angry accusing face, it seemed to her that it was not a tall, spare, stooping man whom she saw, only; but also a swaggering little boy, trying to keep his end up after cold water had been poured over his enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • It seemed that he had scarcely begun to walk before he swaggered; he had scarcely begun to talk before he cursed.†   (source)
  • "I was in the hospital wing when they held the trials," said McLaggen, with something of a swagger.†   (source)
  • With his other hand, he continues to hit his leg firmly with his swagger stick.†   (source)
  • He seemed to swagger, and enjoyed having power.†   (source)
  • He sits tapping his tall leather boot with his swagger stick.†   (source)
  • "I'm glad to find that seeing your competition hasn't damaged that swagger of yours.†   (source)
  • "You owe me, Tatowierer:" The smirk is back as he fondles his swagger stick.†   (source)
  • In a flash, the swagger stick hurtles through the air and strikes Cilka's hand.†   (source)
  • Compared to the imposing swagger of Prusias, Astaroth was almost delicate, effete.†   (source)
  • The scorn and the swagger evaporated as they stood ill-at-ease in the storage room.†   (source)
  • She'd shaken her head, recognizing the confident city swagger almost immediately.†   (source)
  • When she turned, it was easy to understand the reason for Brian's swagger.†   (source)
  • He liked it, as a king of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use.†   (source)
  • He slapped his swagger stick loudly against his open palm.†   (source)
  • I was too damn dumb to know that a swagger is a silly walk for a man with yet a long way to go.†   (source)
  • I watched as the Major approached R Company in his familiar erect swagger.†   (source)
  • He threw his swagger stick to the floor and drew his long sword from his shining scabbard.†   (source)
  • She liked the swagger she saw in this Daario Naharis.†   (source)
  • Tonight Star chose to get off short of destination, swagger through a park, and make an entrance.†   (source)
  • I might as well have behaved decently for all the good I did with my temper and swagger.†   (source)
  • I could not swagger if I tried.†   (source)
  • He trotted back to Edgar again and again with the target in his mouth, an aw-shucks swagger rocking his hindquarters.†   (source)
  • Why swagger, then?†   (source)
  • But there was no air of smugness, excitement, or superiority; none of the swagger that he had had on the Hogwarts Express, when he had boasted openly of the mission he had been given by Voldemort…… There could be only one conclusion, in Harry's opinion: The mission, whatever it was, was going badly.†   (source)
  • Later in the youth authority camps and prisons, blacks used Mexican slang and the cholo style; Mexicans imitated the Southside swagger and style — although this didn't mean at times we didn't war with one another, such being the state of affairs at the bottom.†   (source)
  • The SS officer stands alongside, tapping his foot impatiently, slapping his thigh with his swagger stick.†   (source)
  • They are denied their meager food rations; they might be flogged: sometimes it's just the one blow with a rifle butt or swagger stick, but at other times they are beaten savagely while their fellow prisoners are forced to look on.†   (source)
  • A GI with a swagger.†   (source)
  • Even in Medallion there was a victorious swagger in the legs of white men and a dull-eyed excitement in the eyes of colored veterans.†   (source)
  • The frontal swagger of the gangs, a culture of nearly princely hauteur but with bodings, of course, of unembellished threat, and this is what Acey examined surgically, working the details, looking for traces of the solitaire, the young man isolated from his own moody pose.†   (source)
  • And smile—when that girl smiles and turns those eyes on you—by George! if she was taken to New York and put through one of those finishing schools she'd make a sensation in the swagger set.†   (source)
  • He saw a hairy Communist swagger into his father's study, belch, spit on the floor, pick up a scroll …. and already Ralph was outraged.†   (source)
  • Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.†   (source)
  • The doctor is wiping tears off his glasses and looks like he's actually been laughing, and McMurphy is back as loud and full of brass and swagger as ever.†   (source)
  • These were as likely to be officers as common soldiers, and all had the same swagger, the same haw, haw, haw laugh, the same eager, dangerous eyes.†   (source)
  • He was beating the swagger stick furiously into his palm as though his left hand was boneless, nerveless tissue.†   (source)
  • Aggo and Jhogo fell in to either side of them, walking with the bowlegged swagger all the horselords affected when forced to dismount and stride the earth like common mortals.†   (source)
  • The way he talks, his wink, his loud talk, his swagger all remind me of a car salesman or a stock auctioneer-or one of those pitchmen you see on a sideshow stage, out in front of his flapping banners, standing there in a striped shirt with yellow buttons, drawing the faces off the sawdust like a magnet.†   (source)
  • But they let us writhe and maneuver like worms in a can until at last all of us could see the speaker, who stood rigidly on the table slapping his open palm with a swagger stick.†   (source)
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