He pompously described his achievements.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : a pompous minor official. ,a pompous speech.    From Dictionary.com. 

Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Night] Reference

"I should think it did," Sir Charles said pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Slave of Silence] Reference

Their surgeons in grey pompously paraded the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

Mr. Day spoke, if anything, more pompously than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference

"I'm in the perfesshun now," replied Amarilly pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference

"That's right, my child," pompously exclaimed the grandsire.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Those Who Wait] Reference

"Roast beef to begin with," announced Master Eric pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

He strutted out pompously and began, "How beau --" He stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference

"Well, we got to keep it up," Penrod insisted rather pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference

This tryumphant Charriot, was pompously drawne with sixe fierce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference

"It is the law of the community!" said the magistrate, pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference

An officer, apart from his men, strutted pompously up and down the yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage with Captain Dynamite] Reference

Probably no Secessionist ever threatened more pompously over his whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

"My name is Tobias McGee," he answered pompously, as if proud of the fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Gold] Reference

"I'm goin 'to be a foightin' man loike the Gineral," he announced pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference

"You shall be informed when things take a definite shape," he said, pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference

Up came my competitor very pompously and bought a half dollar's worth of cigars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

"One of my friends gave me a lift from town," Judge Marshall volunteered pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder at Bridge] Reference

Burgundy arrived and was welcomed most pompously outside of Trèves, by his suzerain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477] Reference

Travis glanced around the circle of the four or five who were left and said pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

The remembrance of the raisins little Jim had so pompously asked for was upon them, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference

Besides all this, Mr Snapley was a miserable monopolizer of pompously advanced nothings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

"Why didn't you pull the communication cord?" asked the station-master, pompously stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

"What right have you to use these high-handed methods on us?" demanded Mr. Foger pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference

'Tell him I am engaged with my friends, and can see no one,' said the gentleman, pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

"If I catch you here again," said the Griffin pompously, "I will run you in; no loafing here!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference

You may not think it's an unreasonable question to ask as you so pompously pondered there Bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008] Reference

Then HENED comes upon the scene, and pompously makes an identical announcement as a piece of news!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891] Reference

Sears, who couldn't do anything, didn't know how to do anything about it but swear, said pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

OUS, in the termination of adjectives and their derivatives, is pronounced us; as is gracious, pious, pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

Grand Army of the Potomac, 'pompously said the Captain, at the same time introducing me as his Aid, Major Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

They go barefoot, and strut, rather than walk, without bending the knee, with chest and stomach pompously projected.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Once a Cockney manufacturer was taking part in a school examination and asked a boy pompously -- "W'at's the capital of 'Olland?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference

The Little Red Apples and the Shiny Pie Pans rolled on ahead, chattering gaily to each other; Mr. Stuckup marched on very pompously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference

They thought he was in a dream when he pompously required them not to war upon each other, or permit the English to come among them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference