Sample sentences for VAINGLORIOUS

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feeling self-importance

And was this imprisonment God's way of curbing his pride, tempering his vainglorious dreams?
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

A desperate gleam, baleful and vainglorious, flashed over his face.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
You could call it vainglory.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
All free nations are vainglorious, but national pride is not displayed by all in the same manner.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
Stately and aloof among vainglorious tiring-maids, a queen in robes that murmured on the marble floor, she trod the gallery of a crumbling palace.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
But that's rather good, by the way—not to be vainglorious."
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
"I don't mean to be vainglorious," Uncle Monty began, using a word which here means "braggy,"
Lemony Snicket -- The Reptile Room
Do we not find Satan like a lapwing crying before us with enticement and vainglory, to draw our mind far away from the God of our salvation?
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
'But have you really done all this work yourselves?' she continued, when we had been forgiven for terrifying her with our vainglorious salute.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
I became distracted with myself and my vainglorious attempt to act as a symbolic bridge between the children of Yamacraw and the outside world.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
I know that tale as well, but Daeron made too much of it in that vainglorious book of his.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
But that's rather good, by the way—not to be vainglorious."
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
But I was glad I didn't speak, because to Father Huismans the words were not vainglorious.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
"Well," says Watt, "it's to be hoped they line out of their prayerbooks a certain passage for the common people about pride and vainglory.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
"Well, I must say it does look smart on me," commented Hortense, her vainglorious soul yearning for it.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
I know the lad well from much consorting, and I am sure he is not boastful or vainglorious.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
Vainglorious as he was, Porthos could not afford to have a baldric wholly of gold, but had at least half.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Observers have described Charlestonians as vainglorious, obstinate, mercurial, verbose, xenophobic, and congenitally gracious.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
The party stood for a moment exchanging vainglorious remarks with Devil's Row.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of the mendicant on the highway:— "A pupil of Talma!
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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