It readily degenerates itself into a miser's accumulation, and a manprides himself on what he has, and not on the meaning he finds in the affairs of life.
And a man who prides himself upon acting upon principle is likely to be a man who insists upon having his own way without learning from experience what is the better way.
Your father prides himself upon the fact that, although your mother died when you were very young, he has carefully shielded you from everything which could cast a shadow upon your name or nature.
He openly boasts that no woman can resist him, prides himself on his conquests, and while you were out of the room he was making passionate love to me, and only made fun of my attempts to snub him.
Yet I assure you I am not in league with the authorities, and even Don Carlos, who prides himself on knowing practically every foot of the mountain range, failed to find my stronghold.
It leads to complications at all times, especially on a campaign; and a good Commanding Officer prides himself on his men's common sense and adaptability to environment.
And generally speaking, if anyone prides himself on his bodily strength, let him know that he is deficient in judgment.
He prides himself more on composition, to which he has but small pretensions, than on those things for which the public is willing enough to give him full credit.
He prides himself on his knowledge of cheese, and will tell you in the twinkling of an eye which is the best in point of flavour or richness.
It will be seen that in this passage Idomeneus prides himself as much on his ancestry[497] as on his own prowess.
The poet is a traveller who prides himself on the large number of nations he has visited.
He prideshimself greatly on the Middle Fork "skrimage.
The General prides himself on what he calls delicate irony.
She prides herself, as I said before, but she always makes sure by asking questions.
She prides herself on being able to distinguish blue blood at a glance.
He looked at Barbara sadly, yet with thankfulness—the look of a man whose grosser prides were dead.
Jove’s hand in the slain Hath equall’d in their pains their prides to thee.
I will not fail you, I will give you all my confidence; and I will try and understand that noble, wounded heart of yours, with its memories, and all those singular prides and isolations that have been imposed on it by circumstance.
Imperious as he was, and stiffened by a good many of those petty prides which the spoiled children of the world escape so hardly, he found himself hesitating--groping for his words.
It is in European veins their blood flows now;--and prides itself on its pure undiluted Aryanism and Nordicism, no doubt.
Furthermore, the laws of politeness would have forbidden me, under any circumstances, offering the lady the place I offered him, and as he prides himself on his politeness he can raise no possible objection to the arrangement which was made.
I spent a fortnight in the little town, where everyone prides himself on his liberty, and in all my life I have never experienced such a slavery, for I had not a moment to myself.
The son Euthyphron indicts his own father for homicide; he vindicates the step as conformable to the proceedings of the gods; he even prideshimself on it as championship on their behalf, such as all religious men ought to approve.
General McCook is a good commander, but like most of his rank, he prides himself on being General McCook.
The soldier prides himself, at all times, on his soldierly appearance when in the ranks, but, when passing through these secesh towns, he more than takes delight in showing himself to good advantage.
The vrai gourmet will appreciate les plats les plus raffinés on which Adolph prides himself.
Pisa prides itself on its puddings and confectionary.
She prides herself on none of these things, but only on the unprejudiced state of her maternal mind.
I know one who prides himself on his packing, and who has a horror of much luggage.
San Francisco, standing between those two great schools of thought, the University of California at Berkeley, and Leland Stanford University at Palo Alto, prides herself upon her growing intellectuality.
She prides herself that she had doubled her population each fifteen years of her history and here is a geometrical problem of growth that becomes vastly more difficult with each oncoming twelvemonth.
Philadelphia prides herself upon her dominant Americanism--and with no small reason.
They bring no strange customs or strange religions to the growing young nation that pridesherself upon her ability to combine conservatism and progress.
This haughty fool who cannot use his own hands, who prides himself on what is not really his, what will he do when he is stripped of all?
He rails against morality before he has any taste for vice, and prides himself on debauchery without knowing how to set about it.
Julia rather prides herself upon having things artistic, as she expresses it, even to the looping up of a curtain.
It justly prides itself upon having produced some of Mexico's famous men, including Juarez and Porfirio Diaz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
