vainness

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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 Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.

From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony

His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider

What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?

From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by Pickering, James E.

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