Accustomed to standing alone, she had something of the spiritualarrogance that goes with independence.
She had shrunk from spiritual independence with all the obsequiousarrogance of a poor relation at a feast.
There was a suggestion of Flint's masculinearrogance in his voice.
The spirit of the times has rendered impossible any further toleration of the arrogancewhich is based on historical self-glorification.
She knew well enough that it was neither Lord Radclyffe's unkindness, nor the arrogance of the new cousin that had changed and softened Luke's entire nature.
And the herdswoman, who in her arrogance had caused this to happen to the brown curly head, now loved and cherished the white locks until years later her own had become white as well.
Her own arrogance drove her from the throne before it had grown warm from her sitting.
Then came the cardinal himself, man and horse splendidly equipped, his strong and resolute face full of the pride and arrogance which marked his character, his bearing that of almost regal ostentation.
Buckingham, the nobler nature of the two, had by his petulance and arrogance kept himself in hot water with the Spanish court.
Even the arrogance of the Dutch recognized this, when they saw their proud forces humiliated by the unequal strength of ours; and it was acknowledged by the inhabitants of these islands, recognizing the divine clemency.
Such appear, in effect, to be the motives of those who have the arrogance to pretend to a secret knowledge, which they distribute among mankind, though they have no knowledge even of themselves.
La Jonquière's remedy had been more heroic, for he had ordered Céleron to attack the English and their red allies alike; and he charged that officer with arrogance and disobedience because he had not done so.
The old arrogance burned in his eyes; the old sneer returned to his lips.
Not once--not even at the edge of Death's domain--had his arrogance left him.
Belfort was young and handsome, but his face expressedarrogance and superciliousness.
It was sometimes the temper of the British in our country to boast and to show arrogance even when sore outwitted and outfought by us, and then to wonder why we did not love them.
And so you shall, and do," he cried; and instantly the tender spell upon her was broken, for in his tone and manner was the old arrogance and sureness that she so much resented.
Intuitively she felt that this was not the same Richard who had gone away, this earnest, tender man with not a trace of arrogance in his manner.
Paris might be distant from the frontier; "Perhaps twelve, but they will be days of battle:" such was the gallant answer which checked the arrogance of that ambitious prince.
Was she to avenge herself by arrogance upon the man who had awakened this divine emotion because he did not share it?
All that human arroganceand self-conceit could accomplish, raised its head triumphantly in Caiaphas.
For the first time since my childhood, I strip off all the arrogance of reason, for a higher perception is hovering above me, drawing nearer and nearer with blissful certainty!
His feeling against Bas Rowlett was becoming an obsession of venom fed by the overweening arrogance of the man, but Bas still held him in the hollow of his hand, and besides these reefs of menace were yet other shoals to be navigated.
Sim Squires, following up the wreck of arrogance who through years had brow-beaten him, and becoming in turn himself the bully.
Needless to say that with such assumptions of authority came arrogance and tyranny in the government of the Church.
What she had evidently mistaken for the nobility of true manhood, in her innocence and folly, was no more than the arrogance of splendid health.
It was left for him to look down upon them in the end, and smile with all the arrogance of triumphant possession!
Suetonius informs us that on one occasion, when Tiberius had haughtily objected to his mother's sharing the government with him, Livia produced some letters which Augustus had written to her complaining of the pride and arrogance of Tiberius.
Hard and inflexible in their ideas of life were those old Romans, practical and unsentimental in their relations with each other, narrow in their conceptions, proud to arrogance of their State, and reverencing only their institutions.
Pride leads to arrogance, and arrogance is blinding.
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