Young love is being thwarted by purse-proud parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
He looked as though he were purse-proud and a bully. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
A purse-proud person would here feel the ground move from beneath his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
It seemed that the purse-proud colonel had a poor brother living in another State. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
"Confound the fellow with his purse-proud patronage!" he muttered as he hurried along. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
You know what his people are, stiff-necked, conventional, purse-proud, always boasting of their lineage. From Wordnik.com. [The Scarlet Feather] Reference
‘Heartless, false, purse-proud creature,’ Georgiana said to herself as she wrote the following letter in humiliating agony. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
She had found them unkind, purse-proud heretofore; but to her generous soul their treatment of the little old woman, who must be but. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
He is modest and kindhearted, and has much in him of the habits of his grandfather; not one of that purse-proud and haughty kind of men. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It seems that he had married her under an assumed name, his real patronymic being Stephens, and that his people were purse-proud and overbearing. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician] Reference
Kerry against a Mr. S----, and having occasion to press him somewhat hard in my speech, he jumped up in the court, and called me 'a purse-proud blockhead. '. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
Squalid hovels, and princely residences -- purse-proud, plethoric injustice, big and bloated with, its iniquitous gains, and gaunt, famine-stricken multitudes!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841] Reference
Or be obliged to some purse-proud coxcomb for a scandalous bottle, where we must not pretend to our share of the discourse, because we can't pay our club o 'th' reckoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
It is sufficiently weak-minded to be proud; but this type is generally merely purse-proud; and, as Thackeray said, "It admires mean things meanly"; for example, it admires itself. From Wordnik.com. [G.K. Speaks - About the Workers] Reference
What kind of a purse-proud plutocrat do you think I am?. From Wordnik.com. [Blix] Reference
He had forgotten them for these lazy, snobbish, purse-proud San. From Wordnik.com. [From Sand Hill to Pine] Reference
"Oh, no! that will never do, dear Adriana; they will say we are purse-proud.". From Wordnik.com. [Endymion] Reference
"Another of the purse-proud English, who pay no debts, and ruin the poor Bordelais.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
The purse-proud merchant, indignant at this, tried every means to induce his son to abandon such a. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
He is purse-proud, and I knew he'd think a deal more of you if you insured your life for a vast o 'money. From Wordnik.com. [Put Yourself in His Place] Reference
It was the hauteur of foolish duchesses or purse-proud roturiers that she loved, and scrupled not, to abase. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
People were always honored by his presence: even the great and purse-proud, as well as the lowly, welcomed him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
Between you and me I have been thinking Aiken's floating population snobbish, purse-proud, and generally absurd. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
"The pleasure is mine," said Hippo and with a purse-proud gesture he flicked on the counter a twenty dollar bill. From Wordnik.com. [Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World] Reference
And this does not look very well in one who, when he was poor, was particularly bitter on "a purse-proud aristocracy.". From Wordnik.com. [Duffels] Reference
I have devoted the best years of my life to the cause of the poor as against the rich, the down-trodden against the purse-proud. From Wordnik.com. [A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike] Reference
Anita said she had found him an incongruity, and I was tired of the spectacle of a purse-proud man trying to appear like other people. From Wordnik.com. [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference
England between the old, out-at-elbows, broken-down county family, and the overbearing, purse-proud people who come and 'take the place'. From Wordnik.com. [Allan Quatermain] Reference
Such references grated upon the purse-proud aristocrat, who tried to persuade himself that he had always been as prosperous as at present. From Wordnik.com. [A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance] Reference
Mrs. Ruggles drew herself up in her chair with an infinitely haughty and purse-proud expression that much better suited a descendant of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Birds' Christmas Carol] Reference
House, a noisy, purse-proud, illiterate demagogue, whose Cockney English and scraps of mispronounced Latin were the jest of the newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
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