The Prideful Maiden Priestess had great Commiseration for the Ardent Roderick.
It chanced that the Prideful Maiden Priestess Was Hurrying adown the Boulevard with the Self-same Carved-Ivory-Handled Umbrella Closely Clasped in Her Delicate Marie Antoinette fingers.
Under such conditions Thomas Jefferson was sure to be the child of many prayers on the mother's part; and perhaps of some naturally prideful hopes on Caleb's.
You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan," he said, with prideful humility.
Now if Madame had been a prudent woman, and kept the rein on her prideful temper, she would have found Mistress Kilgour in the very mood suitable for an ally.
And surely there was enough else that was strange about this, their third encounter, to have overcome the prideful hesitation of the most ill-treated man.
Then with that fine prideful swing of his shoulders he started to march, and I saw the clansmen gather, wet from the mountain torrents, with knees red-scarred by the briars of many a wood.
The little reluctances which had marked its first appearance had been of small note; her father and mother had only laughingly reproved them, telling her "not to nourish prideful notions.
He was, besides, a prideful body, and, like all of his calling, thought not a little of himself.
The next sun, the young women Set me a tallprideful wigwam apart.
Evidently he was a prideful little man, and liked to see things done in a seamanlike manner.
Each was adopted lovingly by the people, so far asprideful affection and generous deeds implied adoption.
There lived in Richmond, until the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, a stately gentlewoman of the very old school whom we, of two younger generations, regarded with prideful veneration, and with reason.
And in my prideful arrogance I parted you, because you were the son of my enemy, but God hath brought you together again and His will be done.
Aunt Caroline called them by their names and, throwing open their doors, announced them in prideful tones.
If people forget one's very existence it is not prideful to call them.
He had liked the lightness with which her small feet trod the earth and the prideful tilt of her exquisitely modeled chin.
It was the figure of a very young man clad in the tunic of a graduating West Point cadet and it was a figure that bore itself with the prideful erectness of one who regards his right to wear his uniform as a privilege of knighthood.
He had conceived an admiring and prideful affection for the big hound, and had liefer died than allow this to be shown to any other man.
He secured the most of his mother's attention, partly because of his ability and will to thrust himself to the fore at all times, and partly, it may be, by compelling her prideful admiration.
Then he undid the bandage, and with prideful face showed me a hole in his calf you could have put your neef in.
Surely, my lord, 'tis your will his bones be laid in hallowed earth, and masses said for his poor prideful soul?
It was a great and a grand sight; and made me turn from the looking at it into my own heart, causing me to think more and more of the glory of the Maker's handiworks, and less and less of the littleness of prideful man.
A stirring and prideful man found himself coupled with a woman of easy, good-natured disposition; and a man of contented mind and contemplative habits was afflicted with a high-spirited and ambitious wife.
Father Dominic looked the rejuvenated ruin over with prideful eyes and his saintly old face puckered in a smile.
But, as habitude does inevitably bring a certain staleness, so, as the pile of little clipped reports grew bigger Missy's first prideful swell in them grew less.
Gid Fletcher, his logic sharpened by the anxiety of his greed and his prideful self-esteem.
And because they had no prideful concern for banners with eagles and dragons, they raised aloft the sign of the humiliating Crucifixion, the Cross, and as praiseworthy conquerors drove their enemies to flight.
There was no disbelieving the prideful revelation of Lillian Drew--and as he walked on he found himself breathing, "Thank God for Philip's death!
But despite the impotence of speech, the Mayor of Avenue B filled ten minutes in an attempt to suggest faintly the contents of his prideful breast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prideful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: conceited; disdainful; erect; independent; presumptuous; prideful; proud
