Gasconades [verb]

From the Gasconade to the entrance of the Osage river, the south side of the river is hilly but well timbered.

The Gasconade is 200 yards wide at its entrance; it is navigable at certain seasons 100 miles.

Early next morning, at the mouth of the Gasconade, they encountered the first of the obstacles which they had been dreading.

By the time the last one had passed the Gasconade, it was evening again, and the fleet was strung out for miles up the river.

Near the mouth of Gasconade River we met the Oto steam-boat.

We proceeded in a south-west direction, which carried us across the sources of the Maramec and Gasconade.

One cause of this is the wilful blindness and silly gasconade of some of those who lead and form public opinion.

On the way they ordered the bridges over the Osage and Gasconade rivers to be burned, in order to prevent pursuit.

We find equal errors and contradictions in the pompous gasconade and declamatory bombast of St. Paul.

I became more and more convinced that the pompous story of the victory the day before was a mere gasconade.