Slane walked to Jerry Blazes and hung over him with ostentatious anxiety, while Simmons, weeping with pain, was carried away.
I remember thinking, as I took water from the port bulwark, that this was rather ostentatious after she had done all the mischief.
There are no deep-drawn sighs of Allah, nor ostentatious praying among the Malosmanlis, but they bear the stamp of superior trustworthiness plainly on their faces and their bearing.
I followed him, shut the door behind me, walked slowly to where he stood in the corner fumbling at a lamp with feverish and ostentatious activity, and stood behind him, relentless as Fate.
The compassion of the rude state is neither ostentatious nor dilating: nor does it insult its object by the exaction of impossible conditions.
But in spite of the former's ostentatious greeting, Brace could see that his visit was inopportune and unwelcome.
Patterson, with a certain ostentatious caution that ill concealed his pensive satisfaction.
He evidently was, and responded by blowing her an ostentatiousequine kiss.
With a few feminine touches she removed the slovenliness of misery, and placed the loose material and ostentatious evidences of his work on one side.
He had intended to take an ostentatious leave of Low in the bar-room, deliver the letter with archness, and escape before a possible explosion.
Look at a prominent man making an ostentatiousdisplay of his devotion: his example is of advantage to the Church, and the Church may be of advantage to him, for it has an abundance of money at 6 per cent.
Beauvayse yawns with ostentatious weariness of the subject.
Indeed, the whole affair was always considered premature by the good judges; and a long time elapsed before Tadpole and Taper recovered their secret influence, or resumed their ostentatious loquacity, or their silent insolence.
But satisfied that he had formed no other tie, with her ever the test of her position, she had not thought it expedient, and certainly would have found it irksome, to maintain that influence by any ostentatious means.
He himself seems to have seen and felt this, and hence the somewhat ostentatious sacramental attendance at St. Paul's on May 20th.
Can it be that this people which is always making an ostentatious parade of its “culture” is still red in tooth and claw?
Though not insensible to generosity, he was hardened against compassion; and he seemed equally ostentatious and equally ambitious of show and parade in his clemency and in his severity.
But he found in Anselm that persevering opposition which he had reason to expect from the ostentatious humility which that prelate had displayed in refusing his promotion.
She was so overpowered by her consciousness that they seemed continually to intimate that Americans with money were ostentatious and always laying stress upon the amount of their possessions.
Sometimes strange people built such houses and lived strange lavish, ostentatious lives in them, forming an overstrained, abnormal, pleasure-chasing world of their own.
I am satisfied that Sherefeddin Ali has faithfully described the first ostentatious interview, in which the conqueror, whose spirits were harmonized by success, affected the character of generosity.
In the blaze of prosperity, his virtues were insensibly tinctured with the adjacent vices; justice with cruelly, cruelty, liberality with profusion, and the desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity.
The painting, in tone and characterisation, is very pleasant, and we can forgive her the ostentatious display of the rosary.
The painting, in tone and quiet characterisation, is very pleasant, and we can forgive her the ostentatious display of the rosary.
He interpreted the ostentatious submission as the first stage of an intended ambush, and he continued his cautious progress as though the enemy were hovering on his flank.
Decius remained seated, either in feigned oblivion or in ostentatious disregard of the presence of his superior.
It was well known that she encouraged no suitors at the hotel, and his shyness and sensitiveness shrank from ostentatious advances.
Mr. Hamlin placed it in a sitting posture on the edge of his bed, and put an ostentatious paternal arm around it.
A peacock spread its ostentatious tail on the broad stone steps before the portal; a flight of rooks from the leafless elms rose above its stacked and twisted chimneys.
Why, then, this reference to his official oath, and this ostentatious quotation of it?
Behind the ostentatiousand imposing public personages of the different periods, the arbiters of laws and policies have been the men of property.
After every great fraud that he put through he would usually throw out to the public some ostentatious gift or donation.
Your Aversion to any Ostentatious Arts of setting to Show those great Services which you have done the Publick, has not likewise a little contributed to that Universal Acknowledgment which is paid You by your Country.
Hence, our colleges may content themselves with playing a less ostentatious part, and the most zealous alumnus need not think less of his alma mater for observing her limitations.
