" I am not conscious," says he, " of having ever bought a book from a motive of ostentation; every volume, before it was deposited on the shelf, was either read or sufficiently examined "; he also mentions that he soon adopted the tolerating maxim of the elder Pliny, that no book is ever so bad as to be absolutely good for nothing. [Please select]
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He was dressed as usual with great neatness and care, though without ostentation. [Please select]
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His love is constrained, his hatred is artificial, and rather UN TOUR DE FORCE, a slight ostentation and exaggeration. [Please select]
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The fourth is levelled at Ostentation in devotion, or in dress. [Please select]
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He never criticized his wife's clothes, but when they displeased him he ignored them with delicate ostentation. [Please select]
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The cock is a noisy fellow, strutting about, and displaying his plumage with great ostentation; he is also very quarrelsome. [Please select]
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Yet, since this luxurious living was evidently customary in the colonel's household, a charge of ostentation would not have been deserved. [Please select]
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But perhaps it was suppressed out of delicacy for Fionn, for if Goll could be accused of ostentation, Fionn was open to the uglier charge of jealousy. [Please select]
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The two had lived together when John was at home without ostentation or any appearance of style, but with every essential of luxury. [Please select]
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