In fact, as young George had lorded it over the tender, yielding nature of his mother, so the coarse pomposity of the dull old man with whom he next came in contact, made him lord over the latter, too.

If the good knight did not call out to the people sleeping in church, and say "Amen" with such delightful pomposity; if he did not mistake Mde.

His shaven face, his eyes of a metallic gray, his elegant pomposity did not enlighten the Spaniard's memory.

Strange as it may seem to those who have been accustomed to think of that great artist merely as a type of the frigid pomposity of an antiquated age, his music, to ears that are attuned to hear it, comes fraught with a poignancy of loveliness whose peculiar quality is shared by no other poetry in the world.

"A design in the Petit Courier Illustré, I need scarcely tell you," pursued Müller, with indescribable pomposity, "is in itself sufficient to make the fortune not only of an establishment, but of a neighborhood.

I'm a soldier," and Jack drew himself up with martial pomposity, "andandperhaps I ought to arrest you now as an enemy, you know.

Such a movement was right and inevitable as a reaction from the mean and dingy pomposity of English Victorian statuary.

It was no new access of official pomposity, but the man's natural bearing, that maintained a lofty reserve at these public receptions.

He was himself plus eighteen years, fifty pounds, and a new sleek pomposity that was absolutely oleaginous.

Then manikin ladies and gentlemen come on manikin elephants and horses and camels, or in manikin palanquins, and alight with wooden dignity at the foot of the palace stairs, taking their respective orders of wooden precedence with wooden pomposities and humilities, and all the manikin forms of the customary bore.