I then walked out in my uniform, not a little proud, I must confess.
They were not a little proud of having captured a captain of the British service, as they supposed, for they never questioned me as to my real rank.
I was not a little proud to let him see that I had female acquaintances as well as he had, and, as I passed him with the young lady under my protection, I took off my hat, and made him a low bow.
And this serves both for a reward, and for exercise; and the misses who have this favour are not a little proud of it; and it brings them forward in their respective tasks.
They were not a little proud of having captured a captain in the British service, as they supposed, for they never questioned me as to my real rank.
Frank, who was the hero of the day, although he said nothing, was not a little proud of his skating feat.
The latter said nothing, but went silently to work--evidently not a little proud of his peculiar knowledge, and the interest which he was exciting by it.
Toward evening the doctor and his wife left, and Walpurga was not a little proud of the fact that all the villagers knew of the distinguished visitors who had called at the cottage.
Hansei was soon on the road, and was not a little proud to be seen entering the village with his wife.
She need not have hurried so much, for mother came home quite reconciled to the spinning--indeed a little proud of all that had been said in Shenac's praise when the matter was laid before the friends they had been to see.
It is not every boy of fourteen that could swing a scythe to such good purpose as Dan, and he might be excused for being a little proud and a little unreasonable in the matter.
These saints have been regarded almost ever since that early time as the tutelary or patron saints of shoemakers, who are, to tell the truth, not a little proud of their romantic title, "the sons of Crispin.
Her tone did not indicate that she regarded that as anything special, but George noticed that she was a little proud of it, and entertained the opinion somewhere at the back of her mind that Oskar had turned out all right after all.
Why, he seemed to be even a little proud of the fact that when he was only twenty years old he had prophesied his blissfully confident parent's fate to the old man himself, exactly as it had subsequently fulfilled itself.
It was not bad amusement; for the exquisite simplicity in Faith's manner, with the contrast of the coming and going colour and the shy eyelashes, made a picture that any one claiming interest in it would have been a little proud of.
The Bernese are not a little proud of this spot; and the first question they put to a stranger is usually: "Have you been on the platform?
And so through the City, not a little proud, God knows, to be seen upon so pretty a beast, and to my cosen W.
Both of them bore the title of Khodja, or descendant of the prophet, of which they were not a little proud.
Most of the inhabitants derive their origin from Khodja, and they are not a little proud of comparing their ancestry with that of the other OEzbegs.
This ornament gives to the young cavalier a stately appearance whilst riding, and he is not a little proud of it.
The Central Asiatic is not a little proud of his superiority in this respect, in Asia the glory and value of a country being determined by the quality of its water, air, and fruit.
In the course of our conversation, he showed the sleeve-buttons I had exchanged with him at our parting in the West Indies, and was not a little proud to see that I had preserved his with the same care.
I was highly pleased at being undeceived in this particular, and not a little proud of the good opinion of this wit, who shook me by the hand at parting, and promised to meet me the next day at the ordinary.
The reader may easily conceive that I was not a little proud of the opportunity I had of being so near, and of having such means of conversing with, the royal party.
This was the first act of my life that gained me the cheers of a large multitude, and I was not a little proud of the compliment.
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