12 Verbs to Use for the Word propre

Instances occur in this little essay of yours; and I hope it won't offend your amour propre very much, if an old uncle, who has studied Logic for forty years, makes a few remarks on it.

He did not care to see the literary lions of France or Germany or Italy, for though a nobleman, he was too young and unimportant to be much noticed, and he was too shy and too proud to make advances which might be rebuffed, wounding his amour propre.

To have succeeded in gaining such attachment from, and sway over, another, is a proof of power which cannot fail agreeably to excite the amour propre.

It was a reversal of all the conditions of his habitual existence; but it flattered his amour propre that the country should recognize the part he had taken in the cultivation of the anti-slavery sentiment of the nation, and the trace of worldly feeling which I have noted grew under the stimulus to a motive in life.

"I am not going to contradict you," she said, "I never foster amour propre in a man.

I had made a rule of giving the pictures which were not sold in the exhibition to the person who had shown the finest appreciation of them,a habit which did not contribute to pecuniary success, but which helped my amour propre, and I have always regretted not having sent that picture to Agassiz, who, in later years, became one of my best friends.

But I could see that a revision of the Allied Council's resolution might affect French amour propre, and place both Council and commander in an anomalous position.

She may have a liking for you, but moderate your amour propre so far as that is concerned, for the most powerful motive of her conduct, is, without contradiction, the desire for revenge.

and would not the very best tonic that could be given to the individual be to pique his amour propre by the danger of being excelled by one of the opposite sex?

The impression made was that he summoned the conferences to satisfy the amour propre of the Commissioners rather than out of any personal wish to do so.

She had cut him deeply, hurt his amour propre and left him scowling in Arcadian resentment.

Whatever precautions the Countess may take to control the amour propre of the Marquise, she will never make anything else out of her than an ingrate.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  propre