The priest got little sleep. Now he was at the bed of a little half-breed child, smoothing the straight black locks from the narrow brow; now at the cot of some hulking trapper, who wept at the pain, but died finally with a grin of bravado on his lips; now in a foul tepee, where some grave Pawnee wrapped his mantle about him, and gazed with prophetic and unflinching eyes into the land of the hereafter.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"I make my bread," she said, with child- ish pride, "pray see if you do not think it excellent!" And she cut a flaky loaf to dis- play its whiteness. One guest summoned the bravado to inquire, --英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"With his adventurous courage, he never refuses any odds, but there is wit in his bravado. In the Passage de l'Opera he chanced to meet a man who had spoken slightingly of him, elbowed him as he passed, and then turned and jostled him a second time.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
The youth was looking full at Raffles, with the watery eyes of unsuspecting innocence. I itched to emulate the fine bravado of my friend.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
It was said with so much passion as awoke me from the horror of my own bloodied sword. The two stood facing, she with the red stain on her kerchief, he white as a rag. I knew him well enough - I knew it must have pierced him in the quick place of his soul; but he betook himself to a bravado air.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
I sat down on a stone and lit a cigarette. As soon as I had done it, it struck me as a puerile and portentous thing to do, with that great blind house looking down at me, and all the empty avenues converging on me. It may have been the depth of the silence that made me so conscious of my gesture. The squeak of my match sounded as loud as the scraping of a brake, and I almost fancied I heard it fall when I tossed it onto the grass. But there was more than that: a sense of irrelevance, of littleness, of childish bravado, in sitting there puffing my cigarette-smoke into the face of such a past.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 1》
"During his tenure as whip, Underwood was known for employing intimidation, bravado and fear.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Aren't we all just fragile eggs hiding behind bubble wrap and bravado?美剧 · 《Modern Family》
Your issue may be insecurity, masked by false bravado and unisex cologne.美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
As much as I detest that odd-smelling cigarette, I do applaud your rule-breaking bravado.美剧 · 《Young Sheldon》