Sentence example with the word 'conceits'

conceits

Last update: October 13, 2015


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Happy the humorist whose works and life are an illustration of the great moral truth that the sense of humour is the just balance of all the faculties of man, the best security against the pride of knowledge and the conceits of the imagination, the strongest inducement to submit with a wise and pious patience to the vicissitudes of human existence.   [Please select]

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He was not furious at small words that pricked his conceits.   [Please select]

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To attribute all the conceits of this period to the influence of Dr.   [Please select]

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False and boastful conceits and phrases mount upwards and take their place.   [Please select]

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The style is affected and over-elegant, abounds in odd conceits, and uses hopelessly involved sentences.   [Please select]

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Every line that could possibly be interpreted into a secret inclination for war, was carefully avoided; while, on the other hand, he studied those conceits that might be construed into amity.   [Please select]

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