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Sentences starting with pride

Pride will build up in thee a strength which will be like water in the end. [11]
Pride knew the poets backwards, and was smart at French. [11]
Pride some nervous moments. [11]
Pride said to me a moment ago that they spoke better English in Boston than any other place in the world. [11]
Pride indeed was left, but the fire had burned away the last vestige of selfishness. [9]
Pride of profession is one of the boniest bones in existence, if not the boniest. [5]
Pride was being introduced to the young lady on Sir Duke's arm, and paused. [11]
Pride prevented her from discussing these prices with Mr. Cuthbert; and in truth, when lunch time came, she had seen nothing which realized her somewhat vague but persistent ideals. [9]
Pride in her fortune, in her independence, had died down in her. [11]
Pride in his bedroom, a waif of melancholy. [11]

Sentences ending with pride

You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. [9]
In Parliament she would have sat on the right, but that her adopted country should have a Parliament filled her with joyful pride. [10]
He was the widow's comfort and her pride. [5]
Eleanor Goodrich's eyes were dimmed as she smiled an her sister and her husband--a smile that bespoke the purest quality of pride. [9]
What to him was the well-ordered and disciplined army, among whose leaders be had numbered himself with such joyous pride? [10]
Perhaps this blow was needed for his spiritual pride. [4]
The reading brings vividly back to me my pet and pride. [5]
His simple but upright mind felt that she was right, so far as he was concerned, and she was more beautiful in her anger than he had seen her since the brilliant days of her youthful pride. [10]
It was the unlovely soul of a great pride. [11]
Not for the unfortunate in the hospital was she making it, but for him: and that she could do this from the little store that was her very own gave her a thrill of pride. [9]

Short sentences using pride

His family have such pride. [9]
Her pride was stung. [5]
Pride--what pride had she now? [11]
Have you no pride? [11]
Virginia swallowed her pride. [9]
She, likewise, had pride. [9]
But away with pride! [10]
Perhaps it was pride only. [4]
Pride, however, was naturally excitable. [11]
He had conquered his pride. [11]

Sentences containing pride two or more times

I wish you well, for a pride founded on self-respect is pleasing in mine eyes; but take heed lest pride degenerate into vainglory. [10]
He left a tumultuous Cynthia, amazement and repentance struggling with anger, which forbade her calling him back: pride in her answering to pride in him, and she rejoicing fiercely that he had pride. [9]
But what he spoke of afterwards with preposterous ease and pride was neither pride nor ease at the moment; for the Queen's eyes fell on him as he shoved past the gentlemen who kept the door. [11]
It is the pride of our average hotel clerk to know nothing whatever; it is the pride of the portier to know everything. [5]
And, I take pride in writing it, Mr. Carvel spent much of what he had earned at Gordon's Pride in a like honourable manner. [9]
They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the 'pundonor,' the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. [4]
Ah, you do not know how discipline gets into a man's bones, the pride, the indignant pride of obedience! [11]
We had been made proud by the honors which had so distinguished Joan's entrance into that place--honors restricted to personages of very high rank and worth--but that pride was as nothing compared with the pride we had in the honor done her upon leaving it. [5]
I could not imagine how this curious thing had happened; for I knew one thing--that a certain amount of pride always goes along with a teaspoonful of brains, and that this pride protects a man from deliberately stealing other people's ideas. [5]
Bid the remorseless feeling flee; 'Tis malice, 'tis revenge, 'tis pride, 'Tis anything but thee; I deign a nobler pride to prove, And pity if thou canst not love. [5]

More example sentences with the word pride in them

If pride within you secretly abides That, forced by the elixir's charm, The Sooth You needs must speak--be wholly pure in thought, Despising not the teachings wise, of old; When Truth with equal earnestness was sought If speech be silver, silence then is gold! [10]
Why, man, have you no pride in Holy Church? [11]
But for three years I was at Cordon's Pride winter and summer alike. [9]
What manly pride would have cheerfully permitted him to accept was opposed by the defiant desire to show me, your father, you, the whole world, that he would depend upon himself, and needed assistance neither from human beings nor even the gods. [10]
That pride, indeed, would be sign of radical weakness. [14]
I said he would be happy the rest of his days, and he will, for he will always think he is the Emperor, and his pride in it and his joy in it will endure to the end. [5]
Could he, Isaac Worthington, humble his pride and ask her to keep her suspicions to herself? [9]
In brief, earnest words he confessed his love for her, and his desire to make her his own, as the pride and ornament of his house. [10]
He kept his word to you--at the risk of his life, and, as his son, I take a greater pride in him to-day than I ever have before. [9]
I'm afraid Rex won't succeed his father," she added, with a touch of regret and a glance of pride at her husband. [9]
They have gone with the protectors of our home, the pride and ornament of this house--of the street, of the city--the Hermes and Pallas Athene that you--you flung into the lime-kiln. [10]
Her duties connected with the household linen and the poultry yard, its owner's pride, were so easily performed, that in her leisure hours she often voluntarily helped the housekeeper. [10]
Antoinette's eyes filled with tears,--tears of pride, of humiliation, ay, and of an anger of which I had not thought her capable. [9]
I write it with pride, that at these suppers I was sometimes asked to speak; and, having been but lately to England, to give my opinion upon the state of affairs there. [9]
I still reflect with pride, however, that even at that early age I washed when I got up. [5]
I can say with pride that he was no indifferent servant to either, refusing honours from the Pretender in '15, when he chanced to be at home. [9]
Cyrus pointed out with pride and pleasure the trees he had planted with his own hand. [6]
Eva's cheeks flushed with joy and pride as she heard how nobly her lover had justified the confidence of his imperial patron. [10]
Tom had struggled with his pride a few days, and tried to "whistle her down the wind," but failed. [5]
So he walked with his head high and his heart full of pride, and it confirmed his courage when one of Zminis's men, whom they passed in the brightly illuminated Kanopic street, and who had helped to secure Philip, looked at him without recognizing him. [10]
Ruth had listened with an occasional change of colour, but also with an outward pride to which she seemed suddenly to have grown. [11]
But if you wish war, persist in trying to grind the spirit from a people who have in them the pride of your own ancestors. [9]
Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance. [10]
She says she will be the pride of the village when she grows up; and its idol, too, just as she is now. [5]
The pride and wilfulness of generations was indeed in his handsome face. [9]
It was Euphrasia who was speaking, and unmistakable pride was in her voice. [9]
Oh, Miss Lucretia, who pride yourself on your plain speaking, that you should be caught quibbling! [9]
One poor chap, who had no other grandeur to offer, said with tolerably manifest pride in the remembrance: "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once. [5]
A certain sentiment which we may call pride was so strong in him that he felt ready to make almost any sacrifice to prevent it. [9]
What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? [5]
To all of which Polly Ann listened with conscious pride, and replied with sallies. [9]
I knew not whether to pity or to be angry, such a strange blending she seemed of former pride and arrogance and later suffering. [9]
The Hawkins family were settled there, and had a hard enough struggle with poverty and the necessity of keeping up appearances in accord with their own family pride and the large expectations they secretly cherished of a fortune in the Knobs of East Tennessee. [5]
And if there were pride in the young Bostonian, Mr. Whipple thought he knew the cure for it. [9]
Pique and pride were in her heart, and she meant Ian Stafford to remember. [11]
Dignity and pride were both sustained by silence and a wave of the hand, which in fact said to the world, "Look you, my masters, they belong to Jean Jacques. [11]
Pride, the best weapon of a woman, the best tonic, came to her resource. [11]
He guessed the way to bring down the gusto and pride of this Goliath, but, for a purpose, he took his own time, nodding indolently to Macavoy when he met him, but avoiding talk with him. [11]
But there is was; the pride of riches was beginning its disintegrating work. [5]
Then his pride was up, and he strode away and went outside. [5]
Miss Forsythe's pride was touched, and the remark was not softened to her by the, air of half banter with which the sentence concluded. [4]
That Satan, who was quite indifferent to her, had stopped going to her house after a visit or two had hurt her pride, and she had set herself the task of banishing him from her heart. [5]
Before the meal was over he had inspired me with loyalty and pride, enlisted the admiration of Jerry and Conybear and Johnnie Laurens; we followed him into the smoking-room, sitting down in a row on a leather lounge behind our elders. [9]
One day he was obliged to remain at the house in expectation of receiving important telegrams, and the only people who appeared at lunch were Lady Lawless, Mrs. Gregory Thorne (who was expecting her husband), Miss Raglan; Pride, and himself. [11]
Skillfully with this was insinuated the notion of the false and contemptible social pride and exclusiveness of Stanhope's relations, which Mrs. Bartlett Glow represented as implacable while she condemned it as absurd. [4]
This night he was crowding into the music four years of events: of memory, hope, pride, patience, and affection. [11]
But the die was cast now, and pride alone was sufficient to hold me to the course I had rashly begun upon. [9]
And even this was a concession hard for her pride to swallow. [9]
But if the war was to come, I must settle what was to be done at Gordon's Pride with all possible speed. [9]
And the style Wald--or wood--Stromer is to be set down to the fact that this branch had, from a long past time, heretofore held the dignity of Rangers of the great forest which is the pride of Nuremberg to this very day. [10]
She was fresh, volatile, without affectation or pride, and had a temperament responsive to every phase of life's simple interests. [11]
True, an inward voice constantly repeated that he could not part from her any more easily than she from him; but her maidenly pride rebelled against the neglect with which he grieved her. [10]
Hardness, stubbornness, pride, vindictiveness--these may sometimes reside in a young wife and mother of nineteen, but they are not charged against Harriet Shelley outside of that poem, and one has no right to insert them into her character on such shadowy "evidence" as that. [5]
Decrepit age, and vigorous life, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth--on crutches, in the pride of strength and health, in the full blush of promise, in the mere dawn of life--to gather round her tomb. [12]
He worshipped the Vicomtesse, and was so devoid of professional pride as to give her freely all credit for my recovery. [9]
Nil admirari is very well for a North American Indian and his degenerate successor, who has grown too grand to admire anything but himself, and takes a cynical pride in his stolid indifference to everything worth reverencing or honoring. [6]
Perhaps it is very undemocratic, but there is nowhere else more pride of family, of honorable descent, than here. [4]
Whether it was vanity, or pride, or only the instinctive sense of inherited force and attraction, it was the best of defences. [6]
His pride and vainglory were broken. [11]
You have seen us go to sea, a cloud of sail--and the flag at the peak; and you see us now, chartless, adrift--derelicts; battered, water-logged, our sails a ruck of rags, our pride gone. [5]
The former preserve us from becoming Europeanized; they keep our pride of country intact, and at the same time they intensify our affection for our country and our people; whereas long visits have the effect of dulling those feelings--at least in the majority of cases. [5]
His elevation depended upon King Philip, whose boundless pride had gazed at her from his chilling face. [10]
Ann drew herself up with pride and hastily answered that if any one craved news of him he had best apply to Mistress Ursula Tetzel, inasmuch as she was ever wont to have a keen eye on her dear cousin. [10]
She gave herself up to a sweet and simple sense of pride in the deed she had done for him, disturbed but slightly by the chances of discovery, and the remembrance of the match that showed her face at Archangel's Rise. [11]
He glanced slowly up at Pride, as if debating whether to tell him something. [11]
It had been, undoubtedly, the pride of the little city. [9]
Cynthia could not understand these things, and her pride was sorely wounded by them. [9]
She bore the trial as long as she could; she used pride and resentment against it; but at last she could not bear it, and with Mela's help she wrote a letter, bantering Beaton on his stay in New York, and playfully boasting of Saratoga. [8]
Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else. [11]
It was sometimes too pronounced, however, Adrian Fellowes had said; and Adrian was an acute observer, who took great pride in her. [11]
They sat silent too long for Wassef's pleasure, for he took pride in what he was pleased to call his friendship with Donovan Pasha, and he could see his watchful neighbours gathering at a little distance. [11]
You show it to your friends, reading to them the French name, which you can never remember, on the label; and you take an honest pride in the successful fruit of long care. [4]
He feels grateful to the person who advised it, he loves to praise the pill or potion which helped him, and he has a kind of monumental pride in himself as a living testimony to its efficacy. [3]
I half expected to see the Athenian heroes of twenty centuries ago glide out of the shadows and steal into the old temple they knew so well and regarded with such boundless pride. [5]
I had begun to nurse a good deal of pride in presiding over a table whereon was the fruit of my honest industry. [4]
I have stuck to it as well as my wandering, Bohemian nature will permit, and while I do not expect you necessarily to feel any pride in such progress as I have made, I have hoped--that you might feel an interest. [9]
Then he turned to Hilton, and blurted out, "Aw, the rose o' the valley, the pride o' the wide wurruld! [11]
Wouldn't you like to have this fellow drive us round among the halls of pride somewhere for a little while? [8]
Ditmar seemed somehow to have managed to infuse not only Orcutt, the superintendent, but the foremen and second hands and even the workers with a common spirit of pride and loyalty, of interest, of determination to carry off this matter triumphantly. [9]
None dare claim to belong to any recognized school, since the philosophers of the guild pride themselves on condemning the miracle-mongers. [10]
Secretly I wanted to believe all these kind sayings, but I could not; I was afraid that my masters' partiality for me, and pride in me, biased their judgment. [5]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
And she had tingled with pride as she introduced him to her friends, or gazed at him across the flower-laden table as he sat beside Edith Hanbury at the bridesmaids' dinner in Wayland Square. [9]
The younger maids timidly kept out of her way, and Kuni surpassed them in pride and looked down upon them, because her free artist blood rebelled against placing herself on the plane of a servitor. [10]
She was, perforce, thrilled that he was virile and wanted her, but because he wanted her clandestinely her pride revolted, divining his fear of scandal and hating him for it like a thoroughbred. [9]
Even as he thought, a figure in scarlet with a noble face and a high pride of bearing stood before them, not far away. [11]
But second he thought of Mr. Canter and of Nancy, and that was not pride. [9]
She had never thought herself good looking, and now--it was astonishing!--she seemed to have changed, and she saw with pride that her arms and neck were shapely, that her dark hair fell down in a cascade over her white shoulders to her waist. [9]
Sitting here among those who were devoted to him, he looked with kind and fatherly pride at his blooming sons. [10]
The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment. [12]
Perhaps something of this passed through Guida's mind, and the deep pride and courage of her nature came to her assistance. [11]
He had held this army cheap before, but his pride and confidence in it knew no limits now. [5]
One learns many things then," she added with a certain pride. [2]
He would put things straight with his foe before he slept; he would do it at any sacrifice to his pride. [11]
I am saying these things in the interest of our national pride and dignity. [5]
The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
Besides all else, there was in the Fort the thing which the gods made last to humble the pride of men--there was rum. [11]
The will testified their loving pride in Edward, and left their little property to George --because he "needed it"; whereas, "owing to a bountiful Providence," such was not the case with Edward. [5]
The pride of their lives was gone. [11]
In proportion as their fortunes and their popularity declined, and their once notable position as an old family became scarce a memory even, the pride of the Lavilettes increased. [11]

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