Citations for rodomontade
“The sloop I have the honour to command is always ready to put to sea,” saidClonfert. That was mere rodomontade : no ship was always ready to put to seaunless she never used up any water, stores, powder or shot …
She knows what she’s about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she’ll make him a good wife, and because she has amused him with some rodomontade about despising rank and wealth in matters of love and marriage,he flatters himself that she’s devotedly attached to him…