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He brings flamboyant drollery to the part of the pedant Holofernes, breaking into Latin at every ill-judged��opportunity and flipping his hair triumphantly after employing the adjective “thrasonical.”

How wonderfully popular these thrasonical wild-beast tamers and prancing proconsul sort of fellows are—with the gallery!

Thrasonical, thrā-son′ik-al, adj. resembling Thraso, a boastful soldier in Terence's Eunuchus: boastful, bragging.—adv.

On the other hand it would be impossible to imagine a greater contrast than that between Lever’s thrasonical narrator heroes and Major Yeates, R.M., whose fondness for sport is allied to a thorough consciousness of his own infirmities as a sportsman.

Compliments delicate, piled not sickly-sweetly, Like washy Warton's, nor so loud thrasonical— Like Glorious John's—that they sound half ironical!