Vauntful

How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet, ❋ Unknown (2006)

When the prima-donna of some vauntful city trills her bird-song above the foot-lights, or the cremona moans out the sigh of night-winds through the forest, artificial townsfolk applaud. ❋ Unknown (1903)

M'Clellan is now safe, under the protection of the gun-boats, which have again proved of the utmost value in the strangest campaign on record, is probably true; but the contrast between the vauntful promises and the almost piteous reference to the last date at which guns were lost is very significant. ❋ Unknown (1862)

"Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you so often make vauntful mention, can those isles, good Samoa, furnish a valley in all respects equal to Willamilla?" ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Vivenza were perhaps too much inclined to carry a vauntful crest. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

Her screams are answered by the vauntful cries of a hawk; his red comb yet reeking with slaughter. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

I expected such a letter notwithstanding the vauntful prophecies of Old Batchelorship. ❋ Unknown (1796)

And after journeying for a long time, we come at last to the confines of the great eternity, in sight of the two courts of the vauntful King of Death -- one to the right, the other to the left, but very far apart from one another as there lay an immense void between them. ❋ Ellis Wynne (1702)

Forgive, fair Thames, the fong of truth that pays To Tago's emprefs-ftream fuperior praifej O'er every vauntful river be it thine To boafl the guardian fhield of laws divine; ❋ Unknown (1781)