He was a man obviously on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadvantage the somewhat worn joinings of his clothes, and the air of a
swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person's performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself.
The hero, if one may call him so, who gives his name to the play, is a vain, silly
swaggerer. He thinks every woman who sees him is in love with him.
But as the shades of night fell, Tony, the
swaggerer, lost his contempt for Maimie and eyed her fearfully, and no wonder, for with dark there came into her face a look that I can describe only as a leary look.
And there you are playing the
swaggerer to throw dust in our eyes!
One's quite frozen and the other's an awful
swaggerer. He's singing songs...."
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The superiority assumed by these vainglorious swaggerers was, in general, tacitly admitted.
There were thirty thousand of us tatterdemalions against eighty thousand
swaggerers of Germans--fine tall men and well equipped; I can see them yet.
I'll no
swaggerers: I am in good name and fame with the very best: --shut the door;--there come no
swaggerers here: I have not lived all this while, to have swaggering now: shut the door, I pray you.
He was none of your flippant young fellows, who would call for a tankard of mulled ale, and make themselves as much at home as if they had ordered a hogshead of wine; none of your audacious young
swaggerers, who would even penetrate into the bar--that solemn sanctuary--and, smiting old John upon the back, inquire if there was never a pretty girl in the house, and where he hid his little chambermaids, with a hundred other impertinences of that nature; none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the firedogs in the common room, and be not at all particular on the subject of spittoons; none of your unconscionable blades, requiring impossible chops, and taking unheard-of pickles for granted.
Chief
swaggerer was Sir Edmund Baynham, who later narrowly escaped execution after joining Essex's Rebellion of 1601, against Elizabeth I.