Fergus O'Connor especially has shown himself the most abject blusterer, and came pale and haggard and almost crying to speak to Sir George Grey-and told him how anxious he was that all should come to a peaceable end.
"Lady-John-Russell"
MacCarthy, Desmond
I was never a brawler or blusterer, and least of all did I wish to worry these poor people; but the times were such that a man's safety lay chiefly in himself, for the writ of the King ran weak in the outlying districts.
"The Chevalier d'Auriac"
S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
Much of it he felt was true; but how far had he been a dupe in his quixotic defense of a quarrelsome blusterer and cowardly bully?
"Sally Dows and Other Stories"
Bret Harte