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Sentences starting with proud

Proud as of old, unto my throne I go. [11]
Proud and yet modest he advanced to the Empress; bowed on one knee before her seat, and begged for the favor of a waltz with the Queen of the festival. [5]
Proud of the lofty passion which drew her with such mighty power to her lover's arms, she cast aside the remorse, the anxiety, the deep sense of wrong which had overpowered her on her return home. [10]
Proud Rome--" "Rome is my handmaid. [10]

Sentences ending with proud

Gentlemen you've done yourselves proud. [5]
He is of your own county, of your own village, is your neighbour, a man of whom all England should be proud. [11]
The village was very proud. [5]
Again she brought two --walking on air, she was so proud. [5]
He spoke as though forgetful of Soolsby's presence: "As the East is from the West, so were we separate from these lovers of this world, the self-indulgent, the hard-hearted, the proud. [11]
Of our political revolution of '76 we are all justly proud. [7]
And he's so proud. [9]
But Dada was proud. [10]
No fear lest praise should make us proud! [6]
It's a position of honour and trust, Austen, and one of which any lawyer might be proud. [9]

Short sentences using proud

Are not you proud, Phanes? [10]
Florence is proud of it. [5]
Pardonably proud of it, too. [5]
I'm proud of it, Mr. [9]
A proud moment for me? [5]
I'm proud. [11]

Sentences containing proud two or more times

I did not want to be proud, nor intend to be proud, but I was forced to be so. [14]
The astronomer is very proud of his achievement, the rat is proud of his. [5]
But I have this consolation: that dull as I was, I always knew enough to be proud when she commended me or my work --as proud as if Livy had done it herself--and I took it as the accolade from the hand of genius. [5]
He came into that village of his, happy and proud because now, instead of being chief mate, he was going to be master of a whaleship, and he was proud and happy about it. [5]
Am I not proud, shall I not always be proud of your friendship? [10]
He was very proud of his art-letters, as he called them; but then Fulkerson was proud of everything he secured for his syndicate. [8]
Mrs. Colfax was proud of her table, proud of her fried chickens and corn fritters and her desserts. [9]
They were proud of him and had always reason to be; they are proud of him yet, and to them his memory is sacred and stainless and beautiful. [5]
You were the object of it, and I myself would have been very proud of it, but you may not be proud of it. [5]
I am proud, I am very proud, that it was reserved for me to find Doctor Livingstone and for Mr. Stanley to get all the credit. [5]

More example sentences with the word proud in them

And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
I always loved you, and now I'm proud of you. [5]
And I wanted you to be proud of me. [9]
The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature, which is as proud of its caudal appendage, especially in summer-time, as a peacock of his gorgeous expanse of plumage. [6]
Contradict me if you can, proud prefect's daughter; but I warn you beforehand, that in that case, I shall be compelled to bring forward fresh charges. [10]
Is my father wrong when he says that it is a proud thing to belong to the mightiest realm on earth, before whose power barbarians tremble; a great thing to feel and call yourself a Roman citizen? [10]
The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
Yet Duke Maurice would have been well worthy of her whole attention, for with what a free, proud step he advanced, while his imperial master used his arm as a support! [10]
I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in. [5]
At first, high words had been spoken; then there came the strife of two dissimilar natures, and both were headstrong, and each proud and unrelenting in his own way. [11]
The noble, simple-hearted woman who was so proud of her son's increasing renown, his mother, died long ago. [10]
Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance rather than the style in which he lived. [4]
I hope it will not make me proud and stuck-up--I should not like to be that. [5]
For instance, we will ask the Indians if they would feel proud to obey your sceptre, Cambyses. [10]
Ambition and love will also sustain her like two mighty wings on the proud height to which they have borne her, so long as they dwell harmoniously in her fiery soul. [10]
This was the wife of his dreams, the proud woman, with whom the Eletto desired to share power and grandeur. [10]
I have a whole set of his works, and am very proud of it, with its gray paper, and open type, and long ff, and orange-juice landscapes. [6]
The proud woman, who was so cool in all the friendly relations of life, and who, as she felt was always watching her, was to her only a stranger who had her in her power. [10]
Every one else who was in the street or at the window looked after Barbara, and pointed out to others the beautiful Jungfrau Blomberg and the proud security with which she governed the spirited gray. [10]
The proud woman, who had unbent little in her lifetime, whose eyes had looked out so coldly on the world, who felt for her son Ian an almost impossible aversion, drew down his head and kissed it. [11]
The loyal hangers-on, who believed in divine right, were too proud of the company they found themselves in to make any such humiliating admission. [6]
The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
The travelling party which Barop accompanied were very proud of the honour. [10]
One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
But how pitilessly what she heard here overthrew the proud edifice! [10]
So this is what I was proud of! [2]
Had we conquered, what a proud delight it would have been to say, 'The weapons which you gave to the man you loved gained him the sovereignty of the world! [10]
I felt we weren't as we might be, and I felt, too, that I must be at fault; but I was so proud that I didn't want to admit it, I suppose, when he did give me a grievance. [11]
The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them. [5]
The old people were proud of Aaron, too; but all their love was lavished upon Eleasar, their grandson, whom they beheld growing up into a second Moses. [10]
Amazement and suspense were painted on every face, not a hand, not a lip moved as Theophilus rose again and cast a glance of proud and stern defiance round the assembly, which each man took to himself. [10]
The Gaul's orders were immediately obeyed, and Hermas walked at the head of the division entrusted to him, as proud and as self-possessed as any of Caesar's veterans leading his legion into the field. [10]
Joan of Arc was too proud to insist. [5]
Probably because she was too proud to accept alms from a man from whom her ardent heart vainly desired something better. [10]
How proud he was to open his cheque-book before the young Spanish maid, and write in cramped, characteristic hand a cheque for a hundred dollars or so at a time! [11]
His future happiness was to arise from the destruction of this proud city, stifling in its gold. [10]
Equally as difficult was the task of deceiving the Gentiles, for they were as proud as they were poor. [13]
The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
So the letter was sealed, addressed with flourishes, he was proud of his handwriting, and handed to the chaplain for Carterette. [11]
He could, and was proud to show that he could. [5]
The whole village was proud of Euthymia, and with these more quiet signs of grief were mingled loud lamentations, coming alike from old and young. [6]
How proud she was of him now! [9]
The sedan chair was now swaying past the place where the "short cut" for pedestrians led up to the Trausnitzburg, the proud citadel of the dukes of Bavarian Landshut. [10]
And yet he was not proud of the Cassandra Hopkins episode in his career. [9]
The proud conqueror was not displeased at these signs of sympathy, and turning to the Athenian: "I think, my Greek friend" he said, "we may consider our wrongs as avenged. [10]
And how proud was Melissa to speak of the bright young artist, who till now had been the sun of her joyless life! [10]
Very kind that was in the bishop, and very proud his medical audience must have felt. [6]
And, indeed, she was happy, and as proud as a princess, and so grateful to have friends again. [5]
In short, he was domesticated, and I was fond of him and very proud of him, exhibiting him to all our visitors as an example of what affectionate treatment would do in subduing the brute instincts. [4]
All day she was American, practically, and proud of the work of her head and hands and its commercial result; all the evening she took holiday and dwelt in a rich shadow-land peopled with titled and coroneted fictions. [5]
A crowing hen was always an object of interest and distinction; she was pointed out to visitors; the owner was proud of her accomplishment, he was naturally likely to preserve her life, and especially if she could lay. [4]
For instance, it was a proud thing to be of the crew of such stately craft as the 'Aleck Scott' or the 'Grand Turk. [5]
Standing beside him was a proud father who had dragged his son across two counties in a farm wagon, and who was to return on the morrow to enter this event in the family Bible. [9]
There were two warring principles in that superb organization and proud soul. [6]
It was a very real honor to be in the thoughts of so great a man as Captain Sellers, and I had wit enough to appreciate it and be proud of it. [5]
You may be very proud, Sir, to have the friendship of Mr Quilp. [12]
Very well, and very proud to be left in charge of the smoking wrecks. [8]
My father was very proud of it, but it is really my mother's church. [9]
Mr. Scherer was very proud of it all, and ours was a sort of triumphal procession, accompanied by superintendents, managers and other factotums. [9]
The judge was very proud of his Freethinkers' Society, which was flourishing along in a most prosperous way and already had two members--himself and the obscure and neglected Pudd'nhead Wilson. [5]
One can be very proud of his adopted country, and brag for it, and fight for it; but lying deep in a man's nature is something, no doubt, that no oath nor material interest can change, and that is never naturalized. [4]
Here was the very man: with a proud, daring, homeless look, a splendid body, and a kind of cavalier conceit. [11]
We had four very handsome horses, and the driver was very proud of his turnout. [5]
Poor Boges will very gladly play the go-between; the poor despised Boges wishes you so well--the humble Boges will be so sorry when he sees the proud palm-tree from Sais cut down. [10]
Of the other verses ["Good-by proud world," etc] I send you a corrected copy, but I wonder so much at your wishing to print them that I think you must read them once again with your critical spectacles before they go further. [6]
Roxy drew herself up with a proud toss of her head, and said: "Does I mine tellin' you? [5]
Frontenac, proud, impatient, tyrannical, was the one man in New France who had a powerful idea of the future of the country, and who loved her and his king by the law of a loyal nature. [11]
What you are trying to prove by subtlety I am proud and glad to declare. [10]
Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy. [2]
Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
The Colonel was touched; he was pleased and proud, too; his face answered for that. [5]
A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them;-- Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! [6]
She had been too sure of herself to draw her skirts about her; she was too proud to let any man put her at any disadvantage. [11]
And she was too proud to ask it. [9]
He beat us too in throwing the spear, but the king, who you know is proud of being the best archer in Persia, sent his arrow farther. [10]
And when I told my dreams, Shaken and humble,--"Dear, there was no cause," Your words; proud, sorrowful, as it beseems Such as thou art. [11]
She was ready to throw herself at his feet and implore him to control himself, to guard himself against further wrong-doing--but she maintained her proud dignity, and the eyes that met his were not less indignant and defiant than his own. [10]
They have restored to the Coliseum the gilding, the rich upholstery and the uniform magnificence which old Coliseum frequenters tell us Rome was so proud of fifty years ago. [5]
Do not listen to the advice of this proud caste alone, but read every petition yourself, and, by appointing Nomarchs devoted to the king and beloved by the people, make yourself acquainted with the needs and wishes of the Egyptian nation. [10]
Then she flew to tell the company her success, and the applause she received made her glad and proud she had undertaken her mission, since all alone she had accomplished what the multitude had failed in. [5]
You are sure to succeed; and I shall be proud of you, for-- for you saved my brother's life, you see," she timidly added; and she was not often timid. [11]
I am proud to see you here Mr. Thompson. [5]
I am obliged to say that if looking proud and happy when one is marching were sufficient, he would have been the perfect soldier. [5]
I am proud to say that I can wear a white suit of clothes without a blemish for three days. [5]
To die there, to perish there with her lover, did not seem hard; nay, she felt proud to think that she might await death in the noblest edifice ever raised to a god by mortal hands. [10]
I am proud to know that I lose my reason as immediately in the presence of a rare jug with an illustrious mark on the bottom of it, as if I had just emptied that jug. [5]
When Paula returned to her cell old Betta thought that she must have been pardoned; for how glad, how proud, how full of spirit she entered it! [10]
But he's gone to heaven, and 'tis vain crying for last year's breath," he added, with proud philosophy. [11]
Iberville, too proud to give his enemy one moment of athletic trifling, ran in on him. [11]
This led him to form a summer acquaintance with the Secretary, who was pleased to give him whatever information he asked for; being proud of the Society, as she had a right to be, and knowing more about it than anybody else. [6]
He was going to do it as much for her as for himself, and when he had done it, to be proud of it more for her than for himself; he had said so: she believed in him utterly. [11]
She begged me to be content with the 'no;' then I pressed her harder, till she interrupted me, and owned with proud decision that she preferred some one else. [10]
You ought rather to be angry with the proud Oropastes, who sent his younger brother to Rhagar and you to the court, that you might forget one another. [10]
But I will throw the weight of this introduction upon one very peculiar feature of Mr. Stanley's character, and that is his indestructible Americanism --an Americanism which he is proud of. [5]
Duluth is several thousand miles from the sea, and yet she is entitled to the proud name of Mistress of the Commercial Marine of the United States of America. [5]
The princess never thought of that proud word "justice. [2]
And one day those men came again, and said, now for the test, and they took the puppy to the laboratory, and I limped three-leggedly along, too, feeling proud, for any attention shown to the puppy was a pleasure to me, of course. [5]
And this youth, this handsome, spirited-looking, noble-aired young fellow, whose artist-eye could not miss a line of Myrtle's proud and almost defiant beauty, was to be the witness of his power, and to look in admiration upon his prize! [6]
Still, all these things had probably been only the tribute which she was compelled to pay for the proud joy of being the mother of such a son. [10]

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