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True, occasionally he lapsed into his favourite pompousness and autocracy, but this made the work more characteristic of the man. Nothing could have been in better taste than his treatment of certain passages in the author's life as to which, he showed, the public were not entitled to demand more than the mere historical mention of the facts.
Gibbon is sometimes called pompous, but place him by the side of Alison and what one may have previously called pompousness one now calls dignity. Two of the literary historians of our century survive Carlyle and Macaulay. They may be read with care.
She had met men who ran to polysyllables and pompousness, but she had never known the polysyllables to accompany so simple a manner. She had seen men slouching around in old straw hats-and shoddy gray trousers and negligée shirts with the tie askew, and the clothes had spelled poverty or shiftlessness.
And he slashed off a tall green weed with his stick when he thought of Josiah Brown his short, stumpy, plebeian figure and bald, shiny head, his common voice, and his pompousness Josiah Brown, who had now the ordering of her comings and goings, who paid for her clothes and gave her those great pearls who might touch her and kiss her might clasp and caress her might hold her in his arms, his very own, any moment of the day or night!
Dickinson was there, and Scherer, who had just got back from Europe; the talk fell on the Citizens Union, which Scherer belittled with an air of consequence and pompousness that struck me disagreeably, and with an eye newly critical I detected in him a certain disintegration, deterioration.
She heard Sir Winterton tell him so in a friendly phrase, just touched with a pleasantly ornate pompousness; eagerly looking, she saw Quisanté accept the compliment just as he should, as a graceful tribute from an antagonist, as no more than his due from anyone who knew him.
Dickinson was there, and Scherer, who had just got back from Europe; the talk fell on the Citizens Union, which Scherer belittled with an air of consequence and pompousness that struck me disagreeably, and with an eye newly critical I detected in him a certain disintegration, deterioration.
If it's that at all, imagine what I should feel if if anything happened such as the doctors are afraid of." "I've chosen my course. I believe the doctors are all wrong." "Do you really believe that?" she asked quickly. He shrugged his shoulders, seeming to say that he would not discuss it. "A great many considerations influence me," he said with a touch of pompousness.
"Thee me no thou!" he said with enigmatic pompousness, followed by a distinctly vicious snarl, "Master Busy will be my name in future for a saucy wench like thee." He turned towards the house. Mistress Charity following meekly somewhat subdued, for Master Busy was her affianced husband, and she had no mind to mar her future, through any of young Courage's dare-devil escapades.
His whole demeanor was in strong contrast to that of one of the Captains of the fore-top. This man, though a good seaman, furnished an example of those insufferable Britons, who, while preferring other countries to their own as places of residence; still, overflow with all the pompousness of national and individual vanity combined.
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