vaingloriousness
Example Sentences
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Dim moon-eyed fishes near Gaze at the gilded gear, And query, "What does this vaingloriousness down here?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, father," urged they, "savoureth not this of vaingloriousness?
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
A super-sensitive honor led him to fear that his successful rival might suspect him of vaingloriousness.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
He had as little of the insolence and perverseness of Orford as of the petulance and vaingloriousness of Montague.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
There is always an anxiety, a fervour, an impatience, a vaingloriousness attending it which untranquillizes even in the sweetest-seeming moods of the poet.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry
