coxcombry
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D'Harmental did not affect the coxcombry of sadness.
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
The puppyism and coxcombry of such a wager might have been pardoned, were it not that the character of the individual, when sober, was in perfect accordance with this drunken boast.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
This famous balance is a piece of critical coxcombry with which we never could have tolerable patience.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
Why, somewhat heartless; for, suppose Jules45 a coxcomb as much as you choose, still, for this mere coxcombry, you will have brushed off—what do folks style it?—the bloom of his life.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
He wondered if it hadn’t been a sort of coxcombry in him to think there was any danger to her in free and frequent intercourse with him!
From A Beautiful Alien by Julia Magruder
In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
And all these coxcombries are the appendages of, as it seems to us, as little intellect as the rings and brooches of the Exquisite in a modern novel.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
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