Both Uses of
pomp
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance—for he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water.†
Chpt 2 *
- It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(pomp) ceremonial elegance and splendor
or:
(archaic) a pretentious or vain display