[1] Henry Fielding in History of Tom Jones writes, “In fact, the good squire was a little too apt to indulge that kind of pleasantry which is generally called rhodomontade.
The unnamed author describes literary rodomontade as "what is called a sketch or caracature in drawing", and proceeds to surreptitiously address his rodomontades to important political figures of the day, including Lord North, Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and William Pitt the Younger, whom were identified as being the subjects of these caracatures the very same year, in The English Review.
When free trappers visited Bonneville's camp, he welcomed them and ordered grog for everyone: Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” includes the following description of a shipwreck survivor who upon seeing a possible rescuing vessel “danced about the deck like a madman, uttering the most extravagant rodomontades, intermingled with howls and imprecations...”.
Julian Hawthorne employs the word twice in his posthumously published Memoirs,[5] first to lambaste Amos Bronson Alcott, maintaining that he "couldn't write", and, "turned out a pretentious rodomontade of platitudes", and also to describe his 1864 initiation into the Harvard secret society The Dickey Club.
Sir Anthony Parsons as UK Ambassador to the United Nations used the word during a speech on 22 May 1982 during a debate of the Security Council.
He was describing the speeches of several other members including the USSR, Cuba and Panama during that day's debate on the Falklands War.