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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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