"And if you can dance a threesome reel, what good does it do ye?" asked Susan, looking askance at Michael, who had just been vaunting his proficiency. "Does it help you plough, reap, or even climb the rocks to take a raven's nest? If I were a man, I'd be ashamed to give in to such softness."英文原著 · 《Half a Life-Time Ago》
"Upon the thousand useless lives, Upon the guilt that vaunting thrives, Thy wrath were better spent! Why should'st Thou take my little son - Why should'st Thou vent Thy wrath upon This innocent?"英文原著 · 《Love-Songs of Childhood》
The marching army hitches its little green platforms valiantly, and steadily approaches the door. The overturned bass-drummer, lying on the hearth-rug, melting in the heat, softens and sheds tears. The song jeers at his impotence, and flaunts the glory of the martial and still upstanding, vaunting the deeds it will do. For are not Tommy's soldiers all bright and new?英文原著 · 《Men, Women and Ghosts》
were its vauntings all in vain? ADRASTUS Defeat and ruin are our lot. To thee for aid we come. THESEUS Is this thy own private resolve, or the wish of all the city? ADRASTUS The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore thee to bury the dead. THESEUS Why didst lead thy seven armies against Thebes? ADRASTUS To confer that favour on the husbands of my daughters twain. THESEUS To which of the Argives didst thou give thy daughters in marriage?英文原著 · 《THE SUPPLIANTS》
My lefe is fare in land: This seems to have been the refrain of some old song, and its precise meaning is uncertain. It corresponds in cadence with the morning salutation of the cock; and may be taken as a greeting to the sun, which is beloved of Chanticleer, and has just come upon the earth -- or in the sense of a more local boast, as vaunting the fairness of his favourite hen above all others in the country round.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
Therefore, ere going a step further, Pandarus prays Troilus to give him pledges of secrecy, and impresses on his mind the mischiefs that flow from vaunting in affairs of love. "Of kind,"[by his very nature] he says, no vaunter is to be believed:英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》