Proud Sentence Examples

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  • How sad that she would be too proud to have fun.

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  • How proud mamma will be of her brave boy!

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  • Pearl is a very proud mother-dog now.

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  • That clinic was his baby and he was proud of it.

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  • He was so proud of it.

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  • This made him very proud of his skill.

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  • Even at a distance it was obvious that the man was much taller and he rode with a proud kind of grace that her father never possessed.

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  • They had learned a lot since they came, and they were obviously proud of it.

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  • Be proud of that, he said.

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  • You must be really proud to have accomplished all this.

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  • We shall all be proud and happy to welcome our poet friend.

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  • I had hoped to meet her, but I am proud to meet her mate.

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  • He stood with his back straight, as if proud of every inch.

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  • The princess never thought of that proud word "justice."

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  • Julie stood nearby, as proud as any mother could be.

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  • Would you be proud to call him a friend?

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  • I am so proud of him.

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  • Andrew's gray eyes blazed as he stood up straight and proud before the haughty captain.

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  • She hadn't noticed Jackson yet, so stretched her front paws out and let out a proud howl.

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  • In the regiment they called him "our prince," were proud of him and loved him.

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  • Several little girls have learned to spell on their fingers and are very proud of the accomplishment.

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  • But the once proud and shrewd rulers of France, feeling that their part is played out, are even more bewildered than he, and do not say the words they should have said to destroy him and retain their power.

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  • She gazed up at him, completely disarmed by his smile, and yet somehow proud that she had been the one to put it there.

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  • Natasha, who was treated as though she were grown up, was evidently very proud of this but at the same time felt shy.

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  • You raised him and you can be proud as punch of everything he's accomplished, but you've got to trust him, too.

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  • But Gladys was delighted and after a night, ostensibly in adjoining rooms, the pair were off, with giggles and tears and a proud pronouncement that Arlen had agreed to present all seven volumes of Belfair and her galactic cohorts to the waiting world of letters—in paperback form.

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  • She wanted to tell her brother how proud of him she was.

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  • Cyrus was so tall and strong and handsome that his grandfather was very proud of him.

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  • Dr. Hale claims kinship with Helen, and seems very proud of his little cousin.

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  • And strange to say, the Governor of Moscow, the proud Count Rostopchin, took up a Cossack whip and went to the bridge where he began with shouts to drive on the carts that blocked the way.

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  • Louis XIV was a very proud and self-confident man; he had such and such mistresses and such and such ministers and he ruled France badly.

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  • As proud as she was of Jonathan, it was Alex who stayed on her mind for a long time after the phone call.

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  • He was proud of the fifteen or more miles his freighters could travel in a day.

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  • She checked her weapons with scrutiny that would've made her father proud and dressed in dark clothing loose enough for her to fight.

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  • She always said thank you, but it was nothing to be proud of.

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  • I am now the proud owner of about fifteen new books, which we ordered from Louisville.

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  • I do not suppose that I have attained to obscurity, but I should be proud if no more fatal fault were found with my pages on this score than was found with the Walden ice.

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  • However, once we got going, I'm proud to state my future wife responded robustly, both physically and vocally.

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  • His gaze drifted again to the woman whose pale features made him feel both proud and worried.

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  • I'm proud of you.

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  • I'm really proud of you and the girls, Darian.

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  • He did not concern himself with the interests of his own class, and consequently some thought him proud and others thought him stupid.

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  • I'm very proud of him.

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  • You must be proud.

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  • They must have been proud of you.

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  • He is proud and overbearing.

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  • So this is what I was proud of!

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  • I was growing to love this town, with its simple history, proud of its old homes and field stone fences, telling the world it was a place worth staying.

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  • You should be proud of me.

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  • How are you proud of that?

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  • But the proud Israelites did not remain submissive for long; Damascus had indeed fallen, but neither Philistia nor Edom had yet been crushed.

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  • Bayezid's proud spirit could not endure his fall, and he died eight months later at.

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  • You are the proud owner of an Oracle.

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  • I am proud to count him among my friends.

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  • You may be proud of it!

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  • Prince Vasili, who having obtained a new post and some fresh decorations was particularly proud at this time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied.

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  • Alex must be proud.

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  • He would have been so proud.

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  • He's proud of the way you took care of the twins.

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  • While Cynthia was proud of her son Randy's athletic achievements, she always saw those abilities as a means to an end—not an end in itself.

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  • Darian watched his little brother, at once proud of the White God that Damian had grown into and crushed by the sense of his own failure.

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  • Darian smiled, doubting the White God would remotely agree with the two women before him but proud of them nonetheless.

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  • She was proud of what she'd done, how she'd beaten the White God.

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  • Make me proud, Jame would have said.

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  • Gerald had two married sisters and a passel of nieces and nephews – all of whom he was openly proud.

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  • Rob and Gerald were standing beside their saddled mounts, looking proud.

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  • Senor Medena was a proud man, but unless she missed her guess, he loved his children.

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  • I didn't say I was too proud to take money from her.

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  • She seemed proud of herself for outmaneuvering Xander, a sentiment Jessi readily understood.

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  • The pope was naturally proud of his family and had practised nepotism from the outset.

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  • The patricians, patres, housefathers, goodmen - so lowly is the origin of that proud name - were once the whole Roman people, the original inhabitants of the Roman hills.

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  • The Athenian eb rarpl8at, who were thus gradually brought down from their privileged position, seem to have been quite as proud and exclusive as the Roman patricians; but when they lost their privileges they lost them far more thoroughly, and they did not, as at Rome, practically hand on many of them to a new nobility, of which they formed part, though not the whole.

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  • His grandfather had obtained from Venice an " artist " who undertook " to build churches and palaces, to cast big bells and cannons, to fire off the said cannons and to make every sort of castings very cunningly "; and with the aid of that clever Venetian he had become the proud possessor of a " cannon-house," subsequently dignified with the name of " arsenal."

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  • Elizabeth was less concerned with the respective claims of Brian and Shane, the one resting on an English patent and the other on the Celtic custom, than with the question of policy involved in supporting or rejecting the demands of her proud suppliant.

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  • Mill was earnestly opposed to the transfer, and the documents in which he substantiated the proud boast for the Company that "few governments, even under far more favourable circumstances, have attempted so much for the good of their subjects or carried so many of their attempts to a beneficial issue," and exposed the defects of the proposed new government, are models of trenchant and dignified pleading.

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  • Transplanted into this foreign soil, the monarchy became an absolute despotism, unchecked by a proud territorial nobility and a hardy peasantry on familiar terms with their king.

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  • In this sense the name is most commonly associated with the familiar phrase "as proud as Lucifer."

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  • Encouragement and help have been given by the local Archaeological Society, and by many individuals, notably Greeks justly proud of a city which is one of the glories of their national story.

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  • Newton's Hypotheses non fingo was a proud boast, but it rests upon an entire misconception of the capacities of the mind of man in dealing with external nature.

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  • Henry received a good education, of which in later life he was proud; he is credited with the saying that an unlettered king is only a crowned ass.

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  • A man of deep learning and originality, proud and a victim to the odium theologicum, lie could brook no rivalry.

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  • In 1125 he became German king, and in 1137 gave Saxony to Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria, who had married his daughter Gertrude, and whose mother Wulfhild was a daughter of Magnus Billung.

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  • The nation, as a whole, was proud of him, and began, for the first time since the Thirty Years War, to feel that it might once more assume a commanding place in the world.

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  • From having been almost exclusively national during Trans- Louis XIV.s reign, owing to the perpetual state formation of war and to a sort of proud isolation, it had gradually of man- become cosmopolitan.

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  • He stumbled unawares upon the revolt of a proud national spirit, evolved through ten historic centuries; and the trap of Bayonne, together with the enthroning of Joseph Bonaparte, made the contemptible prince of the Asturias the elect of popular sentiment, the representative of religion and country.

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  • Nevertheless Tarnowski was emphatically an aristocrat and an oligarch, proud of his ancient lineage and intensely opposed to the democratic tendencies of the szlachta.

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  • It was planning and perseverance and she had every reason to be proud.

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  • I've done some real shitty things, just to keep Molly; things I'm not proud of, but I'll do anything for her.

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  • She'd make him proud and protect him and the rest of the Guardians from her father, even if destroying her father took her own life.

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  • The simple movement took discipline Dusty would be proud of.

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  • But Gladys was delighted and after a night, ostensibly in adjoining rooms, the pair were off, with giggles and tears and a proud pronouncement that Arlen had agreed to present all seven volumes of Belfair and her galactic cohorts to the waiting world of letters—in paperback form.

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  • He was a proud Highlander and he didn't take the jibes of Johnson very well, " he said.

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  • We are very proud of our ability to make a special occasion even more memorable by adding a personal touch.

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  • Being proud of ones ancestry is not assuming superiority.

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  • He was very proud to think of this, and he wished that he might grow up to be like them.

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  • I considered this suggestion carefully, then I told Mr. Rhoades that I should be proud and glad to have wise friends to whom I could always turn for advice in all important matters.

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  • She learned the stitch this week, and is very proud of the achievement.

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  • That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy.

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  • Natasha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real ball was even happier.

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  • I am proud to say that I made it completely through school without receiving a censure for my conduct!

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  • This is certainly normal, as parents are excited and proud of this new addition to their family.

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  • As a composer, I'm proud to say that my songs have been published and heard throughout Asia and aired on radio stations throughout the USA.

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  • I have never been more proud to be Greek than I am today.

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  • A mother is never more proud than when her daughter walks down the aisle, and stylish mother of bride gowns ensure that she looks just as lovely as the way she feels about her special little girl.

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  • I want women to be proud of their bodies, to be proud of who they are."

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  • The tall slender girl looked hauntingly sad, and yet proud.

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  • I assigned everyone a ring tone and put their phone numbers in it, he said, looking somewhat proud.

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  • It was not a neighborhood one would be proud to call home.

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  • He was proud as punch over his crime-fighting accomplishments.

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  • She wasn't too proud of herself at the moment.

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  • It still retains the proud distinction of being unbridged, and still the River Flotilla Company appoints its steamers at regular intervals to visit all the chief ports on its banks as far as Dibrugarh.

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  • William, however, was too proud and too obstinate to lend himself to such a course.

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  • God being what He is, at once moral and all-powerful, the immoral life is doomed to overthrow, whether the immorality consist in grasping rapacity, proud self-aggrandizement, cruel exaction, exulting triumph or senseless idolatry.

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  • Proud of her numerous family, six daughters and six sons, she boasted of her superiority to her friend Leto, the mother of only two children, Apollo and Artemis.

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  • By direction of Talleyrand, then minister for foreign affairs, the French commissary repaired in state to the old man's residence in Turin, to congratulate him on the merits of his son, whom they declared "to have done honour to mankind by his genius, and whom Piedmont was proud to have produced, and France to possess."

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  • Otto was succeeded by his son Albert, called the Proud, who was engaged in warfare with his brother Dietrich until his death in 1195.

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  • The proud minister had been resisted p in his plans of reform at home by the Jesuits, and, determining to attack the power of the order, first deprived them of all temporal power in the state of Maranhao and Para.

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  • Having married Gertrude, the widow of Henry the Proud, he was invested in 1143 with the duchy of Bavaria, and resigned his office as count palatine.

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  • They described the natives as very proud and haughty.

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  • He was now known as a thoroughly trustworthy servant of the despotic royalty, but he was too proud to be a courtier.

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  • Cambon's proud and vehement reply was the signal of the resistance to Robespierre's tyranny and the prelude to his fall.

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  • Early in the morning of the 1st of July his proud and passionate spirit passed away.

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  • The Arabs from early times have always been proud of their language, but its systematic study seems to have arisen from contact with Persian and from the respect for the language of the Koran.

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  • His mother was a lady of high rank, of the family of the Incas, and he was very proud of his descent.

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  • After refusing several crowned heads in marriage, Costanca was at last persuaded to accept the hand of the infante Dom Pedro, son of Alphonso the Proud, king of Portugal.

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  • The prophetic thought is that the daughter (population) of Zion shall not be saved by her present rulers or defensive strength; she must come down from her bulwarks and dwell in the open field; there, and not within her proud ramparts, Yahweh will grant deliverance from her enemies.

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  • His variety was inexhaustible, and he remains to this day a model whom the most distinguished artists are proud to imitate.

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  • Here is proof positive that Crawford does not copy Letter but gives Darnley's words as reported to him by Darnley - words that Darnley was proud of, - while Mary, returning on the second day of writing to the topic, does not quote Darnley's brave words, but merely contrasts his speaking "very bravely at the beginning" with his pitiful and craven later submission; "he has ever the tear in his eye," with what follows.

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  • They had been popular in England, and even the second gave Englishmen not a little to be proud of.

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  • The nation, proud of its pre-eminence and weary of civil war, saw in the king its true representative and the guarantee of its unity and success.

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  • Mademoiselle de la Valliere held the position from 1662 to 1670; she was then ousted by Madame de Montespan, who had fiercely intrigued for it, and whose proud and ambitious temper offered a great contrast to her rival.

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  • At the same time Commodus, proud of his bodily strength and dexterity, exhibited himself in the arena, slew wild animals and fought with gladiators, and commanded that he should be worshipped as the Roman Hercules.

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  • But his shy, proud nature was not fitted to gain patients, and the Leipzig doctors would not recommend one who was not a Leipzig graduate.

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  • She arrived nevertheless in safety at Leith, escorted by three of her uncles of the house of Lorraine, and bringing in her train her future biographer, Brantome, and Chastelard, the first of all her voluntary victims. On the 21st of August she first met the only man able to withstand her; and their first passage of arms left, as he has recorded, upon the mind of John Knox an ineffaceable impression of her "proud mind, crafty wit and indurate heart against God and His truth."

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  • The fellow-countrymen of Stevinus were proud that he wrote in their own dialect, which he thought fitted for a universal language, as no other abounded like Dutch in monosyllabic radical words.

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  • Henry was succeeded in 1126 by his son Henry X., called the Proud, who obtained the duchy of Saxony in 1137.

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  • Saint-Just maintained his proud self-possession to the last.

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  • In this age Hainaut was known as "the poor land of a proud people," and it was not until the beginning of the 14th century that Mons was converted into a trading town by the establishment of a cloth market.

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  • He was not, moreover, too proud to accept £loon from his son-in-law, and after the reconciliation following on Shelley's marriage in 1816, he continued to demand money until Shelley's death.

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  • Be out, be proud, bring a brolly.

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  • I'm proud to say I was its first chairperson.

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  • The Pentagon's favorite Iraqi dissident, Ahmed Chalabi, is actually proud of what happened.

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  • She is very proud of her ' new hip joint ' .

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  • I am the proud owner of two hermans tortoise.

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  • They are still proud of their former Wizard, and often speak of you kindly.

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  • Smithy Cottage is proud to be part of it.

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  • You want to express how proud you are of the teen's success, but you don't want to get something that he or she won't like or won't ever use.

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  • The enormous constructive energy of the proud Pharaoh, instead of being concentrated on the capital, was expended with almost equal lavishness on other parts of the country.

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  • Lothairs rebuff in Bohemia stiffened the backs of Frederick and Conrad, and in order to contend with them the king secured a powerful ally by marrying his daughter Gertrude to Henry the Proud, a grandson of Welf, whom Henry IV.

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  • Henry the Proud rebelled and was declared to have forfeited his two duchies, Saxony and Bavaria, the former being given to Albert the Bear, margrave of Brandenburg, and the latter to Leopold IV., margrave of Austria.

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  • He was an ardent Nonconformist, proud to number among his ancestors John Gratton, a friend of George Fox, and one of the persecuted and imprisoned preachers of the Society of Friends.

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  • The proud old civilizations of the Euphrates and the Nile might ignore it, but the ruder barbarian peoples in East and West, on whose coasts the Greek colonies had been planted, came in various degrees under its spell.

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  • His interests were secular and he was certainly proud and ambitious; but Stubbs has pictured the fairer side of his character when he observes that Beaufort "was merciful in his political enmities, enlightened in his foreign policy; that he was devotedly faithful, and ready to sacrifice his wealth and labour for the king; that from the moment of his death everything began to go wrong, and 'went worse and worse until all was lost."

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  • He was too shy and proud to see many of the Annan people, and found his chief solace in reading such books as he could get.

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  • Carlyle's proud spirit of independence made him reject Jeffrey's help as long as possible; and even his acknowledgment of the generosity (in the Reminiscences) is tinged with something disagreeably like resentment.

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  • His father, proud of his son's steady application and success, sent him the costly present of a Corpus Juris.

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  • Their step is full of resolution; their bearing proud and apt to be rough.

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  • The necessity of conciliating the proud warriors of Rajputana had taught him toleration from his earliest days.

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  • The raja was permitted to retire to Benares, and the brave and proud inhabitants of that mountainous little territory decided to place themselves under the rule of the company; so that the only annexation effected by Lord William Bentinck was " in consideration of the unanimous wish of the people."

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  • It is clear from his correspondence that Repnin, a singularly proud and highspirited man, much disliked the very dirty work he was called upon to do.

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  • The proud Arabic lords could not acquiesce in paying to a plebeian...

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  • That a noble Koreishite, a prince of the reigning house, should pledge himself to follow Dahhak the Shaibanite as his Imam, was an event of which the Khawarij were very proud.

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  • Crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle six days later, he was acknowledged at Bamberg by several of the South German princes; but his position could not be strong while Henry the Proud, the powerful duke of Bavaria and Saxony, refused his allegiance.

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  • Peace was made at Frankfort in May 1142, when Henry the Lion, son of Henry the Proud, was confirmed in the duchy of Saxony, while Bavaria was given to Conrad's step-brother Henry Jasomirgott, margrave of Austria, who married Gertrude, the widow of Henry the Proud.

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  • Rome, finally, derived its importance from being the capital of the popes and from its proud past.

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  • Adalbert was a man of proud and haughty bearing, with large ideas and a strong energetic character.

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  • The doctors of the universities were too wedded to their antiquated manuals and methods, too satisfied with dullness, too proud of titles and diplomas, too anxious to preserve ecclesiastical discipline and to repress mental activity, for a genial spirit of humanism to spread freely.

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  • Yet none the less was the new learning, through the open spirit of inquiry it nourished, its vindication of the private reason, its enthusiasm for republican antiquity, and its proud assertion of the rights of human independence, linked by a strong and subtle chain to that turbid revolt of the individual consciousness against spiritual despotism draped in fallacies and throned upon abuses.

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  • Adam Krafft, Veit Stoss and Peter Vischer form a trinity of sculptors of which any city might be proud.

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  • His father, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, the youngest of a family to which the mother had brought the germs of mental malady, was a man of strong will and originality, and so proud of the independence of his native town that when Danzig in 1793 surrendered to the Prussians he and his whole establishment withdrew to Hamburg.

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  • And far removed as the Persians are from disavowing their proud sense of nationality (a Persian, the son of a Persian, an Aryan of Aryan stock says Darius of himself in the inscription on his tomb) yet equally vivid is the feeling that they rule the whole civilized world, that their task is to reduce it to unity, and that by the will of Ahuramazda they are pledged to govern it aright.

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  • The city was proud to be termed neocorus or servant of the goddess.

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  • There seems to have been originally only one Tarquinius; later, when a connected story of the legendary period was constructed, two (distinguished as the "Elder" and the "Proud") were introduced, separated by the reign of Servius Tullius, and the name of both was connected with the same events.

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  • He walked with proud step, darting a haughty glance this way and that as if he felt himself lord of all.

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  • Personally Prince Lobanov was a grand seigneur of the Russian type, proud of being descended from the independent princes of Rostov, and at the same time an amiable man of wide culture, deeply versed in Russian history and genealogy, and perhaps the first authority of his time in all that related to the reign of the emperor Paul.

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  • The proud, fierce queen and her people rose, and not alone.

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  • Theodore soon after married his second wife Terunish, the proud daughter of the late governor of Tigre, who felt neither affection nor respect for the upstart who had dethroned her father, and the union was by no means a happy one.

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  • Solomon Stoddard died on the 11th of February 1729, leaving to his grandson the difficult task of the sole ministerial charge of one of the largest and wealthiest congregations in the colony, and one proud of its morality, its culture and its reputation.

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  • Proud of their race and country, they acquired, with their independence, an ardent sense of nationality; and they look forward.

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  • The careful industry and the lucidity which characterize Mr Theal's work stamp him as a historian of whom South Africa may well be proud.

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  • Beautiful, clever and proud, like her mother, but cruel and treacherous, her ambition was to raise the kingdom of Naples to the position of a great power; she soon came to exercise complete sway over her stupid and idle husband, and was the real ruler of the kingdom.

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  • Yahweh has sent a messenger forth among the nations to stir them up to battle against the proud inhabitants of Mount Seir, to bring them down from the rocky fastnesses which they deem impregnable.

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  • For the devices employed against the Scottish schiltrons of pikemen at Dupplin and Halidon, were the same as those which won all the great battles of the Hundred Years Warthe combination of archery, not with cavalry (the old system of Hastings and Falkirk), but with dismounted menat-arms. The nation, meanwhile prosperous, not vexed by overmuch taxation, and proud of its young king, was ready and willing to follow him into any adventure that he might indicate.

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  • He saw that to establish peace in Ireland the Roman Catholics would have to be enfranchised; he realized that to enfranchise them in a separated Ireland would be to subject the proud Protestant minority to an impossible domination, and to establish not peace but war.

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  • Whatever the origin of arya-, however, it is clear that it is a word with dignified associations, by which the peoples belonging to the Eastern section of the Indo-Europeans were proud to call themselves.

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  • With all, he was proud of his race as truly, if not as vehemently, as his paternal grandmother detested it.

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  • Disraeli made Peel's acquaintance early in his career and showed that he was proud of it.

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  • The city, being in a treeless region, is proud of the avenues of trees that line several of its streets and of its parks, especially of the Alexander Park, with a statue of Alexander II.

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  • They are a sensitive, proud, if vindictive, and boastful people, with good conversational and reasoning powers, much sense of humour, tact and perception of character.

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  • The king conferred honour and rewards on the loyal city, to which he gave the proud title of orbs intacta.

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  • For the proud and passionate Eleanor married, two months later (May 1152), the young Henry, count of Anjou and duke of Normandy, who held, besides these great fiefs, the whole of the south-west of France, and in two Rivafryof years time the crown of England as well.

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  • Determined in her faith and proud in her meekness, in opposition to the timid counsels of the military leaders, to the interested delays of the courtiers, to the scruples of the experts and the quarrelling of the doctors, she quoted her voices, who had, she said, commissioned her to raise the siege of Orleans and to conduct the gentle dauphin to Reims, there to be crowned.

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  • To pay court to himself was the first and only duty in the eyes of a proud and haughty prince who saw and noted everything, especially any ones absence.

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  • The sight of someone once so powerful and proud in submission to anyone infuriated him.

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  • While Cynthia was proud of her son Randy's athletic achievements, she always saw those abilities as a means to an end—not an end in itself.

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  • While Dean didn't share his wife's intensity, he was proud of it, and his lack of interest in the names didn't lessen his love of the scene.

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  • The half-demon shook his head, turned and strode away, disappearing into a portal.  Gabriel watched him, envious and proud of his friend.  He'd always had faith in Rhyn.  Gabe's faith had cost him everything, but it was worth it.  If only he could find peace as well.

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  • Gerald had two married sisters and a passel of nieces and nephews – all of whom he was openly proud.

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  • The AA is proud to have the benefit of an active and participatory democracy.

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  • A proud day for her to have a son a mitred abbot; it makes you glad to think they let her in.

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  • I got this shipped over from USA Amazon the other day and am proud to say i was not disappointed.

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  • Failure makes more interesting copy than success but try telling that to a proud man who has just achieved his lifetime's ambition.

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  • It has a proud cultural tradition and unusual wildlife, particularly the critically endangered saiga antelope.

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  • A king, who is proud and mighty, persecutes the religious ascetics that live in his realm and drives them out.

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  • The judge was an ex proud bandsman who was very pleased to see bands unite to make a stance in Airdrie.

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  • This proud showcase of democracy had become a total basket case, thanks to Macmillan's Machiavellian machinations.

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  • Come economic meltdown I'd rather be the proud owner of 10% baked beans than 10% gold.

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  • He is also a proud man who firmly believes he can engineer happiness for his family by sheltering them from his own emotions.

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  • Such a claim could only besmirch the proud regimental standards inscribed with the real victories of two centuries.

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  • He is particularly proud of a report he made in 1999, which exposed police brutality in South Africa.

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  • The vehicles were admired by the many visitors and several cavalcades gave the proud owners a chance to show their vehicles in action.

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  • He was proud of the fact that he once sparred with Bo-Bo Alson who was to become the middleweight champion of the world.

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  • And the locals are quite proud of their gardens, which make the whole town more cheery in the summer months.

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  • Our good chum Tim Ireland has done us proud with this excellent logo.

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  • It was all built be this one very proud man who showed us his 40m2 model of old town colonial Quito.

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  • Pinko Commie (out and proud) I may be but paranoid delusional, no.

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  • Today she wears a coronet of boiling cloud, Yesterday above a sea of mist her head stood proud.

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  • I also smile when I see Mike the managers face after a gig cos he's really proud of them all.

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  • Halloween Fancy Dress costumes This year, we have a great new range of halloween costumes, which we are extremely proud of.

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  • We are also proud of the fact that we are the first film company to openly welcome same sex couples.

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  • One morning three fluffy young cygnets appeared on the pond with their proud parents, but the remaining egg was not forgotten.

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  • Either way, if you plant a dahlia, you'll definitely make your granddad proud.

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  • Our once proud fishing fleet has been in steady decline over the years.

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  • Would you let your family suffer for the fact that you were too proud to admit defeat?

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  • Our personal hygiene correspondent Alex Proud reports that roll-on deodorant is more efficacious than the aerosol variety.

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  • Isnt it horrible da way dey Claim murdering ppl as if they r proud of it!

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  • The lord preserves the faithful and fully recompenses the proud doer.

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  • Proud of this pride, He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.

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  • I am proud of my native town, wherein dwells such marvelous heroes.

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  • The Regents probably felt that the citizens were too emancipated and proud.

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  • Tipton St. John is particularly proud of its self-help ethos with the playing fields and village community hall both communally owned and run.

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  • Being proud to have made it Have you got any irrational fears or phobias?

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  • Iâm not proud of this, but back in the very beginning, when TV Today was but a prancing foal of...

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  • The Development Production Dept is looking for people who stand up for their rights and are proud to cause a fuss.

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  • Sunday, I became a proud godfather to Liam Richard Southall.

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  • Sandra is married, has two daughters and recently became a very proud grandma.

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  • A proud owner will invite guests to enjoy his creation.

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  • But a month later he became the proud father of 42 baby guinea pigs.

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  • They were proud instruments; hence the sounds they produced were not always harmonious sounds.

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  • They never hesitated to say how proud they were of me.

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  • Through towering hills proud men shall ride No horse or ass move by his side.

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  • Finally, and by no means least we are proud to introduce the CMH chilled mirror hygrometers.

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  • Here at holiday hypermarket we are very proud to introduce our brand new travel guides section.

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  • I am the proud owner of an absolutely immaculate Ogden's mono LP which I found just two months ago for $ 175.

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  • I am like a mother with her child; I endure anything from you; I, that was once so imperious and proud.

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  • He's proud of his lawn and he's not going to be happy about that, was her immediate and utterly inane thought.

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  • Andrew added âWe are proud of being Newcastle based but we are not scared of a bit of national or even international travel.

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  • Q, the eccentric inventor of British spy gadgets in the James Bond movies, would be proud of that Moscow rock.

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  • I am proud to have worked on Blood Brothers with him in the past, simply irreplaceable.

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  • About half of the population of Skye can speak the Gaelic language and the native islanders are very proud of their Celtic heritage.

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  • Disappointing to watch from the sidelines but nonetheless proud to be part of the squad and of course very jubilant to see them win.

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  • America & Britain have a proud kinship we're always being told by the leaders of both countries.

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  • They even fought to hold the leash, I'm very proud to say.

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  • I also associated with people who were proud to be called libertarians.

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  • The bow itself lies proud of the sea bed, forming a recess for a large ling to hide in.

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  • He was particularly proud of the family trout loch in Aberdeenshire which was planned and constructed under his supervision.

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  • I ain't proud of it, but long-haul flights will drive you slightly loopy like that.

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  • And he realizes that although he has basically kept loyal to God, there's been a proud attitude beneath.

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  • We're proud to present a paintball marker like no other.

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  • With two sets each of winners and runners-up medals, all the London players could be proud of their performances.

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  • Historically, many proud Serb and Croat nationalists were also good Bosnians.

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  • I'm proud to say that I wrote the phrase " No one gives an oink... " God, I'm weird.

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  • Hendersick point proper is unmistakable, with its jagged rocky outcrop just proud of the coast path.

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  • I would like to have a leaner physique that I can be proud of.

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  • I think College Street is a charming little street of which Gloucester may be justly proud.

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  • He was immensely proud of his " A " classification accorded by the " New Domesday scribe " .

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  • Their parents will feel proud too of seeing them achieve at a high level.

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  • The back wall graphics, being darker, allow the front graphics to stand proud of the back wall to dominate the presentation.

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  • We are proud to be the first market town in England to hold a closed road rally in the town center.

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  • Object Type Watcombe Pottery were proud of their fine red clay and specialized in clean, classical shapes.

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  • Which of your own remix or production work are you most proud of?

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  • I am the proud owner of a E type roadster 1970!

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  • She did herself and Clevedon proud on Monday 1st August by knocking almost 4 seconds off her PB in the 200m Freestyle event.

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  • In 1895, Churchill was appointed a second lieutenant in the 4th Hussars, a proud cavalry regiment.

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  • Norma, a former shop steward in the Health Service, was a proud trade unionist all her life.

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  • I'm not only proud of that, I'm quite smug about it!

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  • Paula is proud of her birthday present, a blue snowsuit from Sweden.

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  • We're proud to be the world's most trusted source of information on every topic imaginable when it comes to coaching soccer.

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  • Trees for Cities R&SA was a proud sponsor of the Trees for Cities Urban Trees conference, held on 22 March 2006.

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  • He kinda looks like a smurf at the moment, but all newborn babies look a little squished... I am very proud!

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  • I stand proud, I stand proud, I stand up for myself, but not alone, with society.

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  • There are not enough superlatives for The Relaxation Center, Bristol should be proud to be home to such a place.

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  • Well done, sweetheart, we are all so proud of you.

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  • The former Illinois congressman said he is proud of his five-year tenure at the Pentagon.

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  • Characteristics The Afghan Hound is a square built dog with a proud head carriage, eastern expression and a long silky topknot.

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  • We are proud to have continued this local tradition on which Mallaig was originally founded in the late 1800's.

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  • Do n't undersell yourself, realize your worth & be proud of what you have achieved.

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  • Two new sculptures for Catford The Creative Lewisham Agency is proud to announce the unveiling of two new sculptures on Rushey Green in Catford.

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  • We should definitely feel proud as we made wayfarers fight for the win, when we could have easily rolled over.

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  • Please read our conditions of sale We are proud to present to you an innovative home laser whitening treatment.

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  • The hotel has its own gourmet restaurant with excellent cuisine, and is particularly proud of its well-stocked wine cellar.

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  • His uncle, who was old, indolent and absurdly proud, had lived in great seclusion; Retz, on the contrary, gradually acquired a very great influence with the populace of the city.

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  • They describe the natives as " very proud and haughty, and not so accommodating as those lately left."

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  • Her own life was by choice, and as far as her position would admit, one of almost austere simplicity and homeliness; and her subjects were proud of a royalty which involved none of the mischiefs of caprice or ostentation, but set an example alike of motherly sympathy and of queenly dignity.

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  • This remarkable woman, famed for her beauty, her masculine energy and unusual powers of mind, was well fitted to be the consort of Odainatti (see Odaenathus) in his proud position as Dux Orientis; during his lifetime she actively seconded his policy, and after his death in A.D.

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  • The proud Arabic lords could not acquiesce in paying to a plebeian like Hajjaj, invested with absolute power by the caliph, the strict obedience he required.

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  • There is not a word too many nor too strong in the description of him by one of Burke's friends, as "a sullen, vain, proud, selfish, cankered-hearted, envious reptile."

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  • We are proud to offer; comfortable, clean, fully en-suite guest accomodation in a recently refurbished, historic Regency Townhouse.

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  • I feel that I relinquish a command of which any man may be proud.

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  • Steve sanders Aberdeen I am very proud to use scots language.

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  • It was a proud moment for me when I mounted my first sentry on the front gates of Buckingham Palace.

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  • Servile dependency was one of the proud Greeks ' worst fears.

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  • I 'm not only proud of that, I 'm quite smug about it !

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  • We 're proud to be the world 's most trusted source of information on every topic imaginable when it comes to coaching soccer.

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  • Two years later she became the proud recipient of her own hearing dog, a Tibetan spaniel called William.

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  • He kinda looks like a smurf at the moment, but all newborn babies look a little squished... I am very proud !

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  • I stand proud, I stand up for myself, but not alone, with society.

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  • We inhabit a civilized, tolerant society proud of a long history of " policing by consent ".

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  • I want to say how proud i am to live in a country that is quite so unified especially in times of sadness.

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  • Is anyone proud of the hair growing from their oxters or other unmentionable parts of the body?

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  • We should definitely feel proud as we made Wayfarers fight for the win, when we could have easily rolled over.

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  • So for veracity alone I 'm actually quite proud of myself for the sharp and witty riposte.

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  • If you are acted with an unclean, proud, carnal, wrathful spirit, who is it that dwelleth in you?

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  • She tried to be humble, but she was clearly proud of the straight As on her report card.

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  • She was modest about her accomplishments even though she had a lot to be proud of after the dance competition season.

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  • The new company is proud of their products because they are the least likely to be victims of malware.

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  • The parents were proud of their son for making good grades because he normally struggled academically.

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  • I gave my toddler an admonitory look for drawing on the walls, but she was so proud of her creation that I couldn't properly discipline her.

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  • The father is understandably proud of his daughter's scholastic achievements.

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  • Her mother is so proud of how easily her daughter accustoms herself to new situations.

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  • Third, you'll need to be consistent and patient, and, fourth, you should help your child be proud of her accomplishments.

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  • This should be a pleasant experience that makes her proud of herself.

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  • He'll be proud of his accomplishments.

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  • Although baby may be irritable as he begins the teething process, you and he will be proud of those first pearly whites.

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  • Choose a good meaning for which they can be proud.

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  • It is best to accept that this can be a tricky task but remember not to be too proud to ask for help before going home.

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  • Now is not the time to be too proud to ask for and accept help!

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  • I am the proud mom of a feisty two year old little girl, and I balance my time between her and my private practice in Westchester County, NY.

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  • Making a diaper cake is easy, and you'll be proud of your special gift to welcome baby.

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  • Several days or even weeks before you put your child in underwear at night, talk up this event so that he will feel excited and proud about what he can achieve.

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  • Bravado! nursing bras-You don't have to be a celebrity to purchase this bra, although several celebrity moms, such as Angelina Jolie and Jessica Alba, are proud wearers of this product.

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  • Follow these tips, and you will soon be the proud owner of an original and valuable creation.

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  • They have been in business for over 20 years and is proud of filling 97 percent of all orders.

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  • Wouldn't a cat be proud to be called Colonel Fitzwilliam?

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  • Marlon, Jimmy, Cary and Cagney are all names that any cool cat would be proud of.

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  • Although I might not have understood it at the time, I have been so blessed to have been raised in a wonderfully ethnic family of proud Greeks.

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  • You can also build something to be proud of that can be passed on to other members of the family.

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  • You'll use this table for years to come, and you'll be proud to have made it yourself.

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