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President, the amateur foursome�including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher�had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ralph had wooed Jean ardently during the short furloughs which had been granted him, and from long distance had written a bit cocksurely.

From The Tin Soldier by Bailey, Temple

Cease from cackling so cocksurely Of some heavenly woodland dell Where the pipes of Pan blow purely; I have sampled these as well.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 by Various