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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

He forbids it, Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride; Giving full trophy, signal, and ostent Quite from himself to God.

From King Henry V by Shakespeare, William

But this was a position the vainness of which I couldn't join: it was no part of my disposition to combat, or even regret, the inevitable.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph

It was become such a world as did not seem worth a man's while to live in: a world of vainness, of hollowness, of meanness, of nothing but illusions.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael

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)