384 Verbs to Use for the Word prides

Sir Andrew was not indifferent to fees; on the contrary, he rather took a pride in telling how much he earned.

Even we, who were but temporary tenants, felt a vague pride in them, as if they somehow reflected a certain consequence upon ourselves.

No sooner had he killed this assailant than he was attacked by another of the kindred of Kámús, named Kahár, whom he also slew, and thus humbled the pride of the Kushanians.

Being the senior by a year, he should have taken the means to prevent your falling into such company; and he should have acquainted me immediately with your loss, in place of wounding your pride by subjecting you to the mortification of receiving a pecuniary obligation from one so little older than yourself, and exposing his own health by a diet on bread and water, as you wrote me, for a whole month.

"Don't you go and hurt my pride in you by any sign of weakness, Sergeant.

henceforth be warned; and know that pride, 50 Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.

I will not have my name bandied about in this land as a wanton who sets silly youth by the ears to gratify her pride.

This touched his national pride, and he gave me something not unlike a lecture.

He resolved to swallow all pride, and make a last appeal for a loan from some of those he dreaded to meet again.

I would flatter the pride of Rome, without lowering the pride of Persia.

When Drake sailed out from Devon to break King PHILIP'S pride, He had great ships at his bidding and little ones beside; Revenge was there, and Lion, and others known to fame,

His heart, that used to be roused at the sight of troops, and banners, and battle-array, and would stir and leap at the sound of a drum, or a trumpet, or a neighing war-horse, seemed to have lost all that pride and ambition, which are a soldier's virtue; and his military ardour and all his old joys forsook him.

Arthur rejoiced and made merry over so noble a triumph, which had brought the pride of Rome to the dust.

Discount what scant occasion gave, That purity ye pride in, And (what's aft mair than a' the lave)

But he could probably see by this time that it was inevitable in any case, and he was willing to sacrifice his personal pride and ambition sooner than necessary to avoid bloodshed in Mexico if he could.

In the second part of "The Tea-Table" Mrs. Haywood made no attempt to diversify the patchwork of verse and prose with any narrative, save one small incident illustrating pride.

There was not a homely way he had of showing his unutterable pride and love for his little girl that did not wring her very soul.

He innocently suggested that the reason was because the shop was the nearest one of its kind to the Law Courts, but this explanation offended the shopman's pride.

Yes, 'twas you the green who dyed, You who fed the favorite's pride.

Extreme hunger, which had abated the pride of Katherine, made her say, though angered to the heart, "I pray you, let it stand."

And, as such beauty seldom swells our pride, Vain thy attempt to cast my toils aside.

But what can you expect of a gent that ain't got no more pride than to be a schoolteacher, eh?" Sinclair shook his head.

I would flatter the pride of Rome, without lowering the pride of Persia.

Thou art youthful, wealthy beyond the indulgence of all healthful desires, of a lineage to excite an unwholesome worldly pride, and fair enough to render thee the most dangerous of thine own enemiesand thou repinest at a lot to which all of thy sex and station are, of necessity, subject!"

ay, hide In the dust thy purple pride!'

384 Verbs to Use for the Word  prides