However this only to let the World see what I could do; and shall not give my Reader any more of this kind, if he will forgive the Ostentation I shew at present.

Viler and more dishonest than the nobility despoiled and the decayed clergy, the bourgeoisie borrowed their frivolous ostentations, their braggadoccio, degrading these qualities by its lack of savoir-vivre; the bourgeoisie stole their faults and converted them into hypocritical vices.

At another of these feasts, she carried her ostentation and display to the astonishing extreme of taking off from one of her ear-rings a pearl of immense value and dissolving it in a cup of vinegar, which she afterward made into a drink, such as was customarily used in those days, and then drank it.

He did not go to grand parties any more than he could help, despising their ostentation and frivolity, and always feeling the worse for them.

Most Englishmen dislike ostentation and display; and to Stafford the place seemed garish and "loud."

Like most young Englishmen, he hated ostentation, which he designated as "fuss.

He laid aside his former ostentation.

For remember that in this way Socrates also altogether avoided ostentation.

So she spoke, making great ostentation of her own superiority and emancipation from learning, treating me as a lad that must learn his horn-book at school.