Women do do it some instances, but they are aware that boasting can easily turn into braying.
Note that word "braying" - a deliberate allusion to the Woosterish upper classes.
When I come out of the house in the morning, the girls (and now Jesus, too) are waiting for me at the barnyard gate, wheezily braying for their cookies.
This small braying lot was to produce the mules that the conquistadors rode across two continents, their offspring arriving in Mexico ten years after the defeat of the Aztecs.
The taciturn De Niro and the braying Pacino share a flawless scene over a cup of coffee, but the real honors go to Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd as a warring, loving couple.
Like many Ladakhi houses, this one reserves the lowest floor for livestock, and the tiny gray donkey, whose braying--like rusty hinges grinding--has kept me awake these past two nights, steps out to sun himself.
Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.
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Scott-Barrett's departure comes as a small surprise since ABN's activist shareholder The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) had been braying for the head of Chief Executive RijkmanGroeninkRijkman Groenink, while Dutch shareholders rights group VEB had also said the chief's position was untenable.
Scott-Barrett's departure comes as a small surprise since ABN's activist shareholder The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) had been braying for the head of Chief Executive Rijkman Groenink , while Dutch shareholders rights group VEB had also said the chief's position was untenable.
But walking across the dark volcanic rocks with the snow cone of Mt Erebus behind and the sound of penguins braying along the sea ice of the sound, it is easy to imagine yourself transported back to the early years of the last century, for this is a timeless landscape.
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