Rome and Florence, and they would be quits with him and his "coxcombry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

He is born in coxcombry, cradled in coxcombry, and educated in coxcombry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

He was clean shaved: clean shaving is a favorite coxcombry of the deacon class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863] Reference

He looked crestfallen for a moment: then his thorough coxcombry resumed its sway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

We give two or three specimens to confound at once this miserable piece of coxcombry and shuffling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference

He had been some time a widower, had long retired from the service, was less given to quarrels and coxcombry, but more trivial and teasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

It is assuming the frivolity, the waste of time, the coxcombry, and all the disadvantages of music, without any of its substantial benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference

Its fashion, too, was of my own fantastic invention; for I was fastidious to an absurd degree of coxcombry, in matters of this frivolous nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Poe] Reference

The extravagances of coxcombry in manners and apparel are indeed the legitimate and often the successful objects of satire, during the time when they exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monastery] Reference

It is only after his coxcombry is rubbed off by the changes and chances of the world, that the really valuable material of the national character is to be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

Morsfield's perfect coxcombry had been noticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

D'Harmental did not affect the coxcombry of sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental] Reference

I've a curiosity to know: a remainder of my coxcombry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

'And you could be deceived by such shallow coxcombry as this!' said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference

Pity that such talents should be coupled with such cowardice and coxcombry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1] Reference

I was fastidious to an absurd degree of coxcombry, in matters of this frivolous nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

It may be doubted whether there is any more astounding monument of coxcombry in literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

In fact, it was a part of the gallant fellow's coxcombry (or nationality) to play the Englishman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

From this to a very dashing coxcomb is but half a step, and, to be rid of the coxcombry and retain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)] Reference

When the ladies were looking on at the fencers, Morsfield's perfect coxcombry had been noticeable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

Izaak; he was also a good deal of a coxcomb, while Walton was destitute of even a trace of coxcombry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

"If she grows famous," whispered coxcombry, "why then oneself will take a little of the praises given to her.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

And, even more base than his coxcombry, he despised her because it was he, Edwin, to whom she had taken a fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

But in his own vein, that of coxcombry that is not quite cynical, and is quite intelligent, he is marvellously happy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

"With these young men such coxcombry, when it is addressed to us, almost always implies some success in high places," said the lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

Still, when we wish for solid geographical information, we must prefer the solemn coxcombry of Pinkerton to the noble work of Strabo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference

But money alone won't do it, and the pretension, the display, the coxcombry permitted in a peer, must be carefully avoided by a parvenu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rides on Railways] Reference

But the coxcombry of Harvey and the felicitous impertinence of Nash have sometimes diverted attention from the actual state of the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

So, in his chess, while he chose even sedulously what became him most, he avoided the appearance of coxcombry, by a disregard to minutiae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

The quality in his appearance and manners, which first impressed the observer, was refinement -- perfect elegance, without the least touch of coxcombry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest] Reference

There was a sort of exaggeration and coxcombry in his talk; but his lion-heart, and keen sense of the ludicrous, alike in himself as in others, redeem them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference

It was, besides, an element of his coxcombry, that he should, in apeing the utterly inconsiderate, rush swiftly to impersonate it when his passions were cast on a die.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

His coxcombry might readily have suggested to him that she was in love with him, but that his conscience and inclinations urged him to assure himself that this was not the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistress Wilding] Reference