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Copies were liberally supplied to the press, and authors and publishers self-complacently awaited the result.
From The Bell-Ringer of Angel's by Harte, Bret
Their quarrel had already passed the bounds of decency, and the Master had begun to frown, when Peter looked up by chance on Judas, and laughed self-complacently: John, too, looked at Judas, and also smiled.
From The Crushed Flower and Other Stories by Bernstein, Herman
She did not even fail to show him that a good willing boy was suffering for a wife's faithfulness toward her absent husband, who unsuspectingly and self-complacently was busy with alien things.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
He knew that he was thus estimated, and self-complacently appropriated the good opinion as clearly his due.
From Home Lights and Shadows by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Copies were liberally supplied to the Press, and authors and publisher self-complacently awaited the result.
