| 单词 | purse-proud |
| 例句 | Margaret had a sweet temper, and really loved her uncle and the children, or she could not have endured so long as she did the waywardness of this purse-proud woman. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z It was sad to see how the poor would endure—mortifying to see how the purse-proud dared offend. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z A year before he had been prosperous, purse-proud, free from debt, with a good business. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Because I have stopped some few purse-proud magistrates upon the highway, they say evil things o' me. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z He was, like her, irritable, haughty and scornful; purse-proud too, and with a spiteful wit which stood him in good stead with women. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z An intelligent and refined daughter may be unfortunate in a coarse, ignorant mother, or a prosing, tiresome, purse-proud father. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z Yet it was this bloated, purse-proud city, strangely enough, that proved the ark of refuge for Spain when the innumerable hosts of Napoleon swarmed over the land. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z And I'm sure we don't want a lot of vulgar purse-proud----" "Purse-proud? Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z The same, Mr. Cardigan, out at heels and elbows, lad, and trimming the highway for a purse-proud Tory. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Mr. Grimes was forever talking about how he had made his own way in the world without the help of any other person; but he was, nevertheless, purse-proud and arrogant. The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z Do you think I can bear this, to know you are in want—for want it must be, or you'd never have stooped to ask that vulgar, purse-proud, patronizing woman for money? Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z I was angry at the purse-proud creature, and I would say neither good nor ill of Lord Cramer. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z There are as many purse-proud women as men. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z It is left to the purse-proud and the vulgar to bring up their daughters as “fine ladies.” A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z But if you see them disposed to be rude, overbearing, or purse-proud, it will be more decent and less troublesome to retire, than to wrangle with them. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z Yet another six months, and the purse-proud merchant of Hurrur is again there, with his drove of comely slaves newly exported from the highlands of Abyssinia. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z And I am glad you were able to give the cocksure insolence of the purse-proud creature such a perfect rebuff. Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z But he died, two years before Brierly's death, and Ruth went to live with her purse-proud aunt, her father's sister. The Last Stroke a detective story 2011-02-19T03:01:39.327Z Among the two hundred girls, surely not many could be so purse-proud and arrogant as the railroad magnate’s daughter. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z I'll show you what it is to turn a poor girl's head and then break her heart for the sake of a purse-proud Zantuppy. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z Why did not fortune take other people, the purse-proud, the scheming, the vicious, the arrogant, the avaricious, instead of us—drag them from their places, and batter and trundle them in the gutter? Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z He was reputed rich, and somewhat addicted to making more than a proper display of his riches; in other words, he was "purse-proud." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 James Jackson did not fancy hereditary monarchy or purse-proud aristocracy. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Meek Walter Mason was beginning to show boldness in dealing with the purse-proud girl. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z What did he care about the motives actuating the purse-proud heiress? Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z They were upstarts, purse-proud, vain, and coarse-minded; and they dared to aspire to an ambition which they were too dull and too cowardly to pursue, when the game-45- was in their hands. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. Puffed up with his success and purse-proud besides, Ber applauded each scurvy trick his people played his enemy. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster Mr. Archer was purse-proud and consequential, and felt that he was entitled to deference on the score of his wealth and prominence. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck “I don’t care what it is!” snarled the purse-proud girl, as she stood before the mirror. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall Or the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse 2011-02-14T03:00:33.337Z I called her purse-proud, vain, arrogant, cold, heartless, and I have no doubt I used a great many more adjectives equally stupid. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z They were not only vulgar and rich, but purse-proud and conceited as well. Ayala's Angel I do not think any of these liked the Pollexfens, who were well off and seemed to them purse-proud, whereas they themselves had come down in the world. Reveries over Childhood and Youth She is very good-looking, of course,” Dauncey continued hesitatingly, “although she always reminded me of one of the conventional pictures of the birth or purse-proud young women which adorn the illustrated papers.” Jacob's Ladder Sometimes it was a snobbish, purse-proud class, as in the case of the present juniors. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days She loved Bertram's enemy, hence her sad surprise entirely devoid of anger, when she heard that he had called her purse-proud. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z The country boy will one day come back with money enough to buy her and her purse-proud heart. Eleven Possible Cases One trapper named Jones was so successful at this business of trapping seals with the net that he became "purse-proud." Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North I had not been here two weeks when I was run into, knocked over and tromped onto by the bay team of a purse-proud producer of beer. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Have they become beggars themselves—the haughty, purse-proud people? Timar's Two Worlds For her sake, to win for his wife the daughter of his wealthy, purse-proud employer, Schommer had laboured with superhuman energy, and embarked his first accumulated earnings in speculation. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z Such flowers of rhetoric as "literary scavenger," "purse-proud fop," "half-educated boy," &c., were thrown around as thickly as though the Flower Girl of the Fejee Islands herself had crossed the path of clerical criticism. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 He was purse-proud, and excited universal hate by his overbearing ways. A Castle in Spain A Novel He may be a modest porter just starting out, or he may be a swollen and purse-proud porter with silver in his hair and also in his pocket. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories But if her education was to continue at the present rate, she was likely to become selfish, egotistical, and purse-proud in a few years. Clark's Field Had he not carried out his promise of two years before and thrashed the mayor's son, who was a year older than himself, and thereby taught a lesson to that stuck-up, purse-proud youngster? The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Her husband sympathized with her most fully on this score, for, like all ignorant, purse-proud men, he could comprehend no claims not based in money. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 The great body of us consider those who give him more than five to be purse-proud plutocrats. Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective That is why I took such a dislike to Headingly—the people there were so terribly exclusive and purse-proud.' Lover or Friend She says that money is a great talent, and that people who are merely purse-proud are detestable. The School Queens You know what his people are, stiff-necked, conventional, purse-proud, always boasting of their lineage. The Scarlet Feather Between you and me I have been thinking Aiken's floating population snobbish, purse-proud, and generally absurd. It, and Other Stories Full monny a time it’s made me groan, To see thee stretched, despised, alone; While turned-up noses passed have gone, O’ purse-proud men! Revised Edition of Poems They were upstarts, purse-proud, vain, and coarse-minded; and they dared to aspire to an ambition which they were too dull and too cowardly to pursue, when the game was in their hands. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 And this does not look very well in one who, when he was poor, was particularly bitter on "a purse-proud aristocracy." Duffels "The pleasure is mine," said Hippo and with a purse-proud gesture he flicked on the counter a twenty dollar bill. Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World I am a poor man"—— "Well"—— "With a wife and four children, whom I love as tenderly as Clinton, or any other purse-proud oppressor of the poor can possibly love his wife and children. Who Are Happiest? and Other Stories She was purse-proud and vulgar, and, though her money gave her a certain prestige among the shallow and unthinking, she lacked the qualities of mind and heart to endear herself to any one. Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves That ignorant purse-proud fellow wished to start a company for almost everything we came across in our route. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek I have devoted the best years of my life to the cause of the poor as against the rich, the down-trodden against the purse-proud. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike “A supercilious nabob of the east, haughty and purse-proud.” Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Nothing would serve him but to play at cards with every one of the company, offering the most tremendous odds; but, fortunately for him, there was not another purse-proud man in the room but himself. Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves She would marry me, poor as I am, but for her purse-proud, mercenary sire. The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California That element which still exists in the Jewish character of being purse-proud and offensively familiar in prosperity, is reported to have twitted the Christians with the worship of a Jewish prophet as a God. Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm I know the ways of your purse-proud English.’ Pixie O'Shaughnessy "These weren't purse-proud, because their purses had nothing in them to be proud of," Aline explained. The Heather-Moon His lordship proved to be an abrupt, ill-mannered, dapper business man; purse-proud, I should call him, as there was every reason he should be, for he had earned his own fortune. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont Perdition seize them and their fortunes, before they should make the amiable, the lovely ——, the derided object of their purse-proud contempt! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Can it be possible," thought the painter, "that Rose has suffered her affections to repose on that conceited, purse-proud, elderly Englishman? The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales Smug, purse-proud and evil, his bloated countenance was most suggestive. Berry And Co. "I haven't come across a single instance of their being purse-proud or snobbish." The Heather-Moon Even then the stupid, good-natured, purse-proud man could not see his danger. Winter Evening Tales Here the humble lad is not met by the sneer of purse-proud insolence, or his simple tale answered only in the frown of heartless contempt. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three There he goes," some laboring man on the wayside would exclaim, "a purse-proud bodagh upon our hands. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three It seemed that the purse-proud colonel had a poor brother living in another State. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent After all, how different from the purse-proud arrogance of wealth seen in our best—selling—fiction, though seldom elsewhere. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers "Yes, Sir, he is the consistent enemy of a purse-proud aristocracy, Sir." Trumps It was the sneer of a purse-proud villain confident that his wealth, no matter how ill-gotten, was still wealth, and worth its value. The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Squalid hovels, and princely residences—purse-proud, plethoric injustice, big and bloated with, its iniquitous gains, and gaunt, famine-stricken multitudes! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 "You are an ill-bred, purse-proud old tyrant, who wouldn't be allowed to sit at a table in California if it wasn't for your vulgar money." The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories We don't want any purse-proud Radical knights to represent us. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 2, 1891 "Exactly; purse-proud aristocracy," repeated Mr. Ele, as if conning a lesson by rote. Trumps Though, purse-proud with your riches, you strut along, yet fortune does not alter your birth. The Works of Horace The Tapp sisters may have been purse-proud and a little vulgar—from Aunt Euphemia's point of view, at least—but they did not lack acumen. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper "Confound the fellow with his purse-proud patronage!" he muttered as he hurried along. With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne Once this part of London was given up to the homes of the great and purse-proud and all that. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women —Let indignation fire my strains, Another villain yet remains— Let purse-proud C——n next approach; With what an air he mounts his coach! The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Angleside was not overbearing, he was not purse-proud and he was not a bully. A Tale of a Lonely Parish By unexpected good luck, his Latin earned him an appointment as tutor to the children of M. de Rênal, the pompous and purse-proud Mayor of Verrières. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 "I wrote his dedication in English, for he understands neither Hebrew nor German, the miserable, purse-proud, vanity-eaten Man-of-the-Earth." Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People These were insolent and purse-proud, and greedy to increase their wealth by any means in their power. Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic They made the rich and purse-proud girl no more beloved by her mates. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways "Oh, bloated plutocrat, purse-proud millionaire, I always happen to want it!" The Purple Heights Such entertainment, however, must all those have that have to do with such a purse-proud and wilful person as Sir Edward Hales. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 You count upon your resources, Harold, like a purse-proud millionaire, who boasts his bursting coffers. Fort Lafayette or, Love and Secession I know him—he is a vain, purse-proud reprobate. The Italians Pearl Graves, her cousin, was beside the purse-proud girl who had been Nan's bitter enemy since the day they had first met. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways You purse-proud wretch, do you think I will not take my master's part? Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes My refusal of course increased the host of my enemies; and I was pronounced purse-proud, beggarly, and unworthy of the notice of the "true gentlemen, who knew how to spend their money." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Gama: Answer me this: What think you of a wealthy purse-proud man, Who, when he calls upon a starving friend, Pulls out his gold and flourishes his notes, And flashes diamonds in the pauper's eyes? The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan What kind of a purse-proud plutocrat do you think I am? Blix True, they had never been moneyed, while the others of her own faith in the little town were wealthy, and somewhat purse-proud. Fanny Herself The Effinghams are very decided, though so purse-proud and grand; Sir George Templemore declares it is quite extraordinary, and even the French lady is furious. Homeward Bound or, the Chase He is modest and kindhearted, and has much in him of the habits of his grandfather; not one of that purse-proud and haughty kind of men. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Ah! these purse-proud tradesfolk, and these sparks of fashion, what do they know of all we suffer? Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Young Stock was pronounced to have all the purse-proud self-sufficiency of a banker, and all the pertness of a clerk; even his bow seemed as if it came from behind the counter. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Stormy scenes follow the revelation, and in the end it appears that Sophie is not a plebeian maiden at all, but the niece of the purse-proud Commandeur, who has neglected his poor relations. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Those who know him best know that the struggles of his early years have not soured his disposition or hardened his feelings, and that access of fortune has not made him purse-proud. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Dr. Percy's next difficulty was how to supply the purse-full and purse-proud citizen with motive and occupation. Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Perhaps they are also sent to teach humility to those who might else become purse-proud. Revenge! To Iglesias these purse-proud, self-righteous, middle-aged gentlemen presented a spectacle at once pathetic and humorous in their present sad plight. The Far Horizon It seems that he had married her under an assumed name, his real patronymic being Stephens, and that his people were purse-proud and overbearing. The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician The impulse to tell her that the purse-proud brewer was not the only man who had done the wretched brother a service for her sake possessed him. Mrs. Day's Daughters "Oh, no! that will never do, dear Adriana; they will say we are purse-proud." Endymion Are you going to quarrel with me because that unfeeling, purse-proud, half-mad woman has treated you so badly? Fan : the story of a young girl's life And at the same time I can puncture the most arrogant, the most cold-blooded, selfish, purse-proud, inflated nincompoop that ever sat at the head of a director's table. The Fighting Chance People were always honored by his presence: even the great and purse-proud, as well as the lowly, welcomed him. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Was he, a prince of the royal blood, to be tossed aside by this purse-proud American as if he were the simplest of simpletons? The Prince of Graustark He knew well enough already, but as there are purse-proud men, so there are boys who are actuated by feelings equally unworthy, and it delighted him to remind Herbert of his poverty. Herbert Carter's Legacy Two miles and a half away, in the heart of a scattered colony of purse-proud New Yorkers, was the country home of the Wrandalls, an imposing place and older by far than Southlook. The Hollow of Her Hand Willy had been to Oxford, and the arrogance and pomposity of this purse-proud man shocked his sense of decorum. Spring Days Fatal wealth bestowed that made the pauper purse-proud! The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca "You mustn't become purse-proud, mother," said Luke, "because you have become suddenly rich." Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck "Heartless, false, purse-proud creature," Georgiana said to herself as she wrote the following letter in humiliating agony. The Way We Live Now I've set my heart on having a handsomer establishment than the purse-proud Mrs. Gileston, and, what is more, I will be gratified. Finger Posts on the Way of Life He doesn't know how to be rude, or ill bred, or purse-proud. Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero "Another of the purse-proud English, who pay no debts, and ruin the poor Bordelais." The Lances of Lynwood Aylmer's Field somewhat recalls the burden of Maud, the curse of purse-proud wealth, but is too gloomy to be a fair specimen of Tennyson's art. Alfred Tennyson He looked as though he were purse-proud and a bully. The Way We Live Now The junior uncle, Titus Dudgeon, is a wiry little terrier of a man, with an immense and visibly purse-proud wife, both free from the cares of the William household. The Devil's Disciple He shall silence the din and clamour Of clan disputing with clan, And toil’s long fight with purse-proud might Shall triumph through this man. The Kingdom of Love Bad in every way, wretched, selfish, sensual, unfeeling, purse-proud, ignorant as Sir Louis Scatcherd was, still, there was left to him the power of feeling something like sincere love. Doctor Thorne I was sick of the addresses, and, moreover, the purse-proud Flemings have made such a stiff little fop of my poor boy that I am ashamed to look at him, or hear his French accent. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest The Bumpshers and the house of Mango at the Pineries vie together in their desire to dominate over the neighborhood; and each votes the other a vulgar and purse-proud family. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh He had forgotten them for these lazy, snobbish, purse-proud San Franciscans—for Bray had the miner's supreme contempt for the moneyed trading classes. From Sand Hill to Pine Jackson Wells had a dim recollection of this cousin, a hateful, red-haired schoolgirl, and an equally unpleasant memory of this other uncle, who was purse-proud and had never taken any notice of him. Openings in the Old Trail He is purse-proud, and I knew he'd think a deal more of you if you insured your life for a vast o' money. Put Yourself in His Place The German has no costly sports to pay for, no showy establishment to maintain, no purse-proud circle to dress for. Three Men on the Bummel She was a true peasant of the Rhone valley, independent and proud, without any of the sly humilities of Balzac's country folk, too artless to be purse-proud. The Nabob A certain style dignified its grime; heavy, clumsy, arrogant, purse-proud, but not cheap; insular but large; barely tolerant of an outside world, and absolutely self-confident. The Education of Henry Adams He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient. Scaramouche He sat down alone in the great hall; the silence of it fell heavier and heavier on his sinking spirits; the beauty of it exasperated him, like an insult from a purse-proud man. Armadale See, said these voices, see these purse-proud commoners who deny their parents! see these plebian recruits who look upon themselves as illustrious veterans! and peals of laughter were heard. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature |
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