vainness
Example Sentences
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But this was a position the vainness of which I couldn't join: it was no part of my disposition to combat, or even regret, the inevitable.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
He forbids it, Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent Quite from himself to God.
From King Henry V by William Shakespeare
