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feelings of excessive pride
- Oh, I dare say, and a nasty conceited thing.2.1 -- Book 2 Chapter 1 -- Tom's "First Half" (73% in)
- Her conceit would soon be overawed by the actual inspection of his books.2.1 -- Book 2 Chapter 1 -- Tom's "First Half" (65% in)
- "I don't mind," said the little conceited minx, "I'll ask him myself."2.1 -- Book 2 Chapter 1 -- Tom's "First Half" (90% in)
- She did not answer immediately; very angry words rose to her lips, but they were driven back again, and she said at last: "You often think I'm conceited, Tom, when I don't mean what I say at all in that way.3.5 -- Book 3 Chapter 5 -- Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster (91% in)
- Then with a bright smile, "I think perhaps I could if he were very conceited; and yet, if he got extremely humiliated afterward, I should relent."5.4 -- Book 5 Chapter 4 -- Another Love-Scene (31% in)
- I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."5.4 -- Book 5 Chapter 4 -- Another Love-Scene (36% in)
- But suppose, Maggie,—suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——5.4 -- Book 5 Chapter 4 -- Another Love-Scene (37% in)
- But suppose, Maggie,—suppose it was a man who was not conceited, who felt he had nothing to be conceited about; who had been marked from childhood for a peculiar kind of suffering, and to whom you were the day-star of his life; who loved you, worshipped you, so entirely that he felt it happiness enough for him if you would let him see you at rare moments——5.4 -- Book 5 Chapter 4 -- Another Love-Scene (37% in)
- Lucy had said he was inclined to be satirical, and Maggie had mentally supplied the addition, "and rather conceited."6.2 -- Book 6 Chapter 2 -- First Impressions (43% in)
- You think he is conceited, I see that.6.3 -- Book 6 Chapter 3 -- Confidential Moments (53% in)
- Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favorite of Heaven because I am not a favorite with men.6.7 -- Book 6 Chapter 7 -- Philip Re-enters (31% in)
- "Maggie is not the sort of woman Stephen admires, and she is irritated by something in him which she interprets as conceit," was the silent observation that accounted for everything to guileless Lucy.6.7 -- Book 6 Chapter 7 -- Philip Re-enters (46% in)
There are no more uses of "conceit" in The Mill on the Floss.
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