vainness

Example Sentences

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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 Sabatini, Rafael

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 Hergesheimer, Joseph

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 Shakespeare, William

O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!

From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Shakespeare says:— 'I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.'

From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Woodcock, Henry