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extravagantly praised

Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III

I knew at once that they were speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most highly vaunted beauty.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
Behold him, too fine-drawn to sweat, too pressed to vaunt the drugs in his little brass-bound box, ascending Shamlegh slope, a just man made perfect.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Oh you self-vaunted stem of the plantain, how hollow it all proves.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
The Bedoowan commander seemed stunned that these peasant miners would have the audacity to challenge his vaunted knights.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
Spit in the fire if thou must vaunt thy courage.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Betrayed by his vaunted memory!
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
The vaunting cruelty with which she met my glance, I never saw expressed in any other face that ever I have seen.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
"And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?" demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
DE GUICHE: Another Gascon vaunt!
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Now I know what your much-vaunted Shadowhunter vows are worth.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head!
William Shakespeare -- King Lear
I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer.
Eudora Welty -- One Writer's Beginnings
But the vaunting and prostration of love told her nothing-nothing at all.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Carley's memory pictures of the Adirondacks faded into pastorals; her vaunted images of European scenery changed to operetta settings.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing.
Jane Austen -- Emma
And train him in the ways of Medusa, in the ways of the most vaunted member of that so-unofficial, criminal fraternity.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
We sit down in a booth by the window, next to the vaunted parking lot.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
Now he and his vaunted regulars had been outsmarted by "the rabble in arms," whom they had so long disparaged and despised.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
No earthly power, nay, not even-mark me well-the vaunted might of human science can avail you to avert that hand once it is stretched toward you.
Albert Camus -- The Plague

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