A hero in his own despite, he vexed me often with his thrasonical airs and vainglorious trumpetings of his own virtue; but I bore with him, believing that in so doing I should best serve my cause.
But they have been a thousand times disgraced by imbecile and vainglorious pretenders.
Of the pursuit he has given us a somewhatvainglorious description.
I cried, "you can't pretend to think I was serious in all thisvainglorious nonsense.
There is nothing too extravagant or too vainglorious for me to say of myself.
Now, much-respected reader, do not for a moment suppose that I have, even in my most vainglorious raptures, ever imagined that I was here in these records supplying the void I have pointed out.
The Athenians were more inclined to laugh at this boast than to believe it; for they were well acquainted with the vainglorious character of the man, and had often amused themselves at his expense.
Eumenes had frequent interviews with this man, who was of a flighty and vainglorious character, and tried to restrain him from any act of open rebellion.
He grows condemnatory, as the spitting rifle flashes show him that the vainglorious hunting-shirt men are between him and those English whom he hungers to destroy.
France had escaped from one of the most imminent perils of its history by the folly of the vainglorious English king.
The old man, long practised in every art of royal treachery, was far too knowing for the vainglorious young man, his son-in-law.
When Napoleon, in the culminating point of his vainglorious exultation, had assembled the monarchs of Germany around him at Dresden in the summer of 1812, Stein was still at Prague, and not without apprehensions for his personal safety.
These contain, as has already been stated, only laudatory phrases and vainglorious titles, and furnish us with no historical data nor anything that would be of value to scholars.
Nor was the vainglorious Frenchman content with the reality of power.
Sancho followed on Dapple, together with all the members of the pastoral gathering, eager to see what would be the upshot of his vainglorious and extraordinary proposal.
Some intermixture of vainglorious tempers puts life into business, and makes a fit composition for grand enterprises and hazardous endeavors; for men of solid and sober natures have more of the ballast than the sail.
Self-conceit, on the other hand, is a vainglorious assertion of power.
He has ample stabling, and is vainglorious about his beans.
You never did hear me boast of it; but I have heard you very vainglorious about your easy temper and your facile nature, which were simply indolence.
The British fall: the Minute-Men have mixed with bitterest woe Their late vainglorious vaunting and their military pride.
And, to turn from Tory legislators, I am vainglorious in announcing to you that the Anti-Corn-Law League has taken up my poems on the top of its pikes as antithetic to 'War and Monopoly.
And then the fact of there being a story to a poem will give a factitious merit in the eyes of many critics, which could not be an occasion of vainglory to the consciousness of the most vainglorious of writers.
He had thought and he had struck something, feeling the vainglorious self-satisfaction of a child.
He woke before dawn with vainglorious schemes in his head.
Instead of a vainglorious recital, he merely cast down the long tapering antennae of the flying-beetle.
The patience of the sensitive and vainglorious hero was worn out.
Frederic had, by playing for his own amusement on the feelings of the two jealous and vainglorious Frenchmen, succeeded in producing a bitter enmity between them.
Where now was Ki Ki, the vainglorious hawk who had deemed that without his aid nothing could be accomplished?
He who calls upon God's name falsely, as do the heretics and all vainglorious saints.
The vainglorious man thought that I would stop and keep silent at the terror of thy name; for I do not believe that he trusted entirely to his talents and learning.
