He saw it and, lacking knowledge of its source in Brenton's erratic father, he condemned it with the cocksure harshness of exceeding youth.
The girls annoyed her by their cocksure alertness, their little air of being primed, ready for any emergency that chanced to offer.
The cocksure scientific which in its time was not a whit less arrogant than the cocksure ecclesiastical is giving place to a consciousness that man is the master of many things of which he was once supposed to be the slave.
I suppose my own failure at a thing in which I was cocksure of success had made me a bit dubious about anybody I care for starting so serious an undertaking as marriage under any sort of handicap.
He had left home a slim, cocksure youngster, who had proved more than a handful for his family before he was half through college, which educational finishing process had come to an abrupt stop before it was complete.
She, and all who knew him well, had seen Stonor crush the cocksure and the unwary with an awful effectualness.
I can imagine the little worm was never so humbly grateful in his life; but when I told him that his passport was wanted, he was the cocksure schoolmaster ape in a moment.
His face lengthened for a moment at the idea, but the old cocksure manner came back again, and he pooh-poohed my valuation with lofty superiority.
We might pile up the cutter on some outlying reef, but we were both cocksurethat our stupendous luck was going to set us safe ashore somehow.
Like many of the cocksure young men who forage about cities in apparent contentment and who express their cynicism in supercilious slang, Escott was shy and lonely.
And it don't pay to be too cocksure about anything.
I don't believe they've another kick in them," added this cocksure Briton.
Don't you be sococksure about everything, Blachland," grunted Pemberton, who was fast dropping asleep.
Cocksure they are, lawless and as casual as they are cocksure; but I love them, and I realised it when I met an Englishman who laughed at them.
They're cocksure they are going to walk through Belgium, cocksure they will get to Paris by Sedan day, and then they are going to destroy your fleet with Zeppelins and submarines and make a dash across the Channel.
So far as the movements of comets and electric trams go, there is, no doubt, practically cocksure science; and indisputably Comte and Herbert Spencer believed that cocksure could be extended to every conceivable finite thing.
These first pages bear witness both to the energy of his genius and also to its unenlightenment; he seems more ignorant and more cocksure than so great a man should be.
Susan had sufficient obstinacy and spirit to resent this cocksure attitude.
I fancy it is this discovery of the falsity of isolated facts that makes us more reasonable and less cocksure as we get older We get to suspect that there are other facts that belong to the truth we are in search of.
I find myself in agreement for once with Melbourne who wished that he was "as cocksure of one thing as Macaulay was of everything.
We were so perfectly cocksure that he would lose--this time.
I was pretty certain they wouldn't catch Jim, in spite of Goring being so cocksure about it.
I was so cocksure of catching the mare in half-a-mile farther that I couldn't help wondering what it was all about.
The parson is a splendid little chap, utterly cocksure of a lot of things I take good care not to discuss too deeply with him.
The Germans are so cocksureof winning the war that I guess they 'll do that.
But when he came to the hills, clad in shoddy finery to visit men in honest homespun, he bore himself with a cocksure dare-deviltry and malapert condescension.
In his operations he was a cocksure individual, Mr. Craig was!
They were not a people who could cut and dry their sentiments; they were all impulse and simplicity, with an obvious cocksure shrewdness too, like that of Jean Jacques--of the old Jean Jacques.
He is as arrogant and as cocksureof himself as any other Englishmen, but he has picked up virtues that most of his countrymen disdain.
