How To Use Coxcomb In A Sentence
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The gallants of that age, disinterested, aspiring, and lofty-minded, even in their coxcombry, were strangers to those degrading and mischievous pursuits which are usually termed low amours.
The Monastery
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Moreover, his perpetual struggle with men and things leave them no time for the coxcombry of fashionable genius, which makes haste to gather in the harvests of a fugitive season, and whose vanity and self-love are as petty and exacting as a custom-house which levies tithes on all that comes in its way.
Modeste Mignon
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He caused so many peeces of silver to be cunningly guilded, as then went for currant mony in Florence, and called Popolines, and after he had lyen with the Lady (contrary to her will and knowledge, her husband had so closely carried the businesse) the money was duely paid to the cornuted Coxcombe.
The Decameron
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We dare not contemplate an Atlantis, a scheme out of which our coxcombical moral sense is for a little transitory ease excluded.
English literary criticism
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And suppose some crane-necked general to go speeding by on a tall charger, spurring the destiny of nations, red-hot in expedition, there would indubitably be some effusion of military blood, and oaths, and a certain crash of glass; and while the chieftain rode forward with a purple coxcomb, the street would be left to original darkness, unpiloted, unvoyageable, a province of the desert night.
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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They meet some Prussian crimps, and escape them by help of a coxcombical but not wholly objectionable Austrian Count Hoditz and the better (Prussian) Trenck.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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He is a silly and superficial man, a fop or coxcomb.
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The feathered reptile lowered its coxcomb as she crossed the ground, and slunk away, disappearing into a crack between two boulders.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword.
Wildfire
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A CONCEITED coxcomb, with a very patronizing air, called out to an Irish laborer, "Here, you bogtrotter, come and tell me the greatest lie you can, and I'll treat you to a jug of whiskey-punch.
The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
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And people say that those are young Parisian coxcombs in disguise.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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On the other hand, you must carefully shun the affectation of _bombastic diction_ -- it is lamentable to see a preelucidated theme rendered semidiaphonous, by the elimination of simple expression, to make room for the conglomeration of pondrous periods, and to exhibit the phonocamptic coxcombry of some pedant, who mistakes sentences for wagons, and words for the wheels of them.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Ralph has a bloody coxcomb, by a blow from a messan-page whom nobody knew — Dick Seyton of Windygowl is run through the arm, and two gallants of the Leslies have suffered phlebotomy.
The Abbot
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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The rustics, on their side, resisted these privileged lackeys and called them "coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows.
Gerfaut — Complete
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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.
The Monastery
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England, at his return home he was adjudged to be the fool himself; but now wearied with the motley coxcombe, he hath undertaken in some place or other to find a verier foole than himself.
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies
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And journalists have lavished upon this coxcombry praises which they have withheld from Newton and Locke, both worshippers of the Divinity from thorough examination and conviction!
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Without her warrant it would have been coxcombical to believe it But the belief made her altogether sacred in his eyes, and he vowed a thousand times that no word or tone of his should ever offend that angel delicacy and tenderness.
Despair's Last Journey
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These impatient coxcombs think that all men, like themselves, are miserable, save when in saddle and stirrup.
Quentin Durward
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Old maids are prim'd — the coxcombs cough perfume,
The Age Reviewed
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But though the embroidery of his conversation was different, the groundwork was the same, and the high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century inter-larded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days.
The Monastery
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A garden, at one end of the house, was red with love-lies-bleeding and coxcombs, their deep hues contrasting with great clumps of marigolds and bachelor's-buttons, all claiming a preemption right over innumerable weeds and any amount of ribbon grass, that struggled hard to drive them out.
The Old Homestead
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He had whiskers -- all jockeys should have whiskers -- but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified -- but most things have terribly changed since
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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A coxcombical young lord came up to me one evening after the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866
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Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I have a coxcomb of frize?
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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He had whiskers — all jockeys should have whiskers — but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified — but most things have terribly changed since
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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As the devil of ill-luck would have it, half the audience did not know that H. had written it, but were displeased at his stealing from the "Road to Ruin;" and those who might have borne a gentlemanly coxcomb with his "That's your sort," "Go it" -- such as Lewis is -- did not relish the intolerable vulgarity and inanity of the idea stript of his manner.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb
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White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see.
The Caxtons — Complete
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He found installed in the house a personage whom he describes as tall, fair, noisy, coxcombical, flat-faced, flat-souled.
Rousseau
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coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Country, _Shorthose_, you were an arrant fool, a dull cold coxcombe, here every Tavern teaches you, the pint pot has so belaboured you with wit, your brave acquaintance that gives you Ale, so fortified your mazard, that now there's no talking to you.
Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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Bavius Blunderbore, Esq., which were of "a low and moderate sort," cause you to giggle yourself wellnigh into an asphyxy, -- calf and coxcomb as he was?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
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In my way home through the Borough I met a venerable old man, not a mendicant, but thereabouts; a look-beggar, not a verbal petitionist; and in the coxcombry of taught charity I gave away the cake to him.
Selected English Letters
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Retired as I am and chuse to be, from public employ - ment, I sincerely wish for the honour & benefit of my country to see the day when none but such as are best qualified, both by abilities & integrity, shall fill those departments which are now possessed by dunces, frib - blers, and coxcombs.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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I then went to bed, resolving my first business in the morning should be to discharge this troublesome, pedantic, self-conceited coxcomb, who seemed so much disposed to constitute himself rather a preceptor than a domestic.
Rob Roy
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The pistol had been bought and prepared for the purpose with the utmost nicety, not only for use but show; nor is it unfrequent to find in such instances of premeditated ferocity in design a fearful kind of coxcombry lavished upon the means.
The Disowned — Volume 08
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He was, in short, one of those respectable links that connect the coxcombs of the present day with those of the last age, and could compare, in his own experience, the follies of both.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Mark Hallett, a leading "paleo-illustrator," allows himself to imagine that the crests in Allosaurus were brightly colored, or that the iguanodon could have sported a bright skin flap "like a coxcomb.
New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur
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In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
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The thoughts of becoming a subject of raillery for coxcombs, and losing my money to boot, stung me to the quick; but I made a virtue of my indignation, and swore that no man should with impunity either asperse the character of Melinda, or turn my behaviour into ridicule.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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He translated the late and coxcombical but not uninteresting Greek prose romance of _Hysminias and
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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In his manner there was nothing of the supercilious apathy which characterizes the dandy introduced to some one whom he doubts if he can nod to from the bow-window at White's, -- none of such vulgar coxcombries had Lord Castleton; and yet a young gentleman more emphatically coxcomb it was impossible to see.
The Caxtons — Volume 11
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Remember the words of Captain Fluellen: "If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?
Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
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He is a silly and superficial man, a fop or coxcomb.
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Wouldn't that be egg all over the face of the dizzy-eyed coxcomb of a Prime Minister.
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After all, it’s not everyday you’re called a “dankish pinch-spotted coxcomb!”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Click Here: Keeping it Light Edition
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The best way of self-cultivation is to wipe out the coxcombical mirage, so as to return to the syncretism of inside and outside.
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“Never, while there are empty-pated coxcombs at each corner to keep it warm.”
The Abbot
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As an afterthought, the red-headed girl suddenly added, ‘Good gracious, that Adam Weatherly is such a coxcomb.’
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His manner assures her ‘that he was exactly the coxcomb she had heard him described to be.’
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And all these coxcombries are the appendages of, as it seems to us, as little intellect as the rings and brooches of the Exquisite in a modern novel.
Famous Reviews
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Camillo now tosses a perfumed handkerchief under his nose, and inhales the coxcombical incense of the idea that he will do all without Camilla's aid, to surprise her; thereby teaching her to know him to be somewhat a hero.
Vittoria — Volume 4
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He was annoyed at the man's insolence but realised he must have appeared a coxcomb in Mr. Howitt's eyes.
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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The chef's favorite offal product, tripe, graces the menu, as do rubbery coxcombs (braised, with green chilies), and sweetbreads fried like chicken in a crunchy, salty batter.
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He was of his own age, or a good deal younger, and from his dress and bearing might be of the same rank and calling, having all the air of coxcombry and pretension, which accorded with a handsome, though slight and low figure, and an elegant dress, in part hid by a large purple cloak.
The Abbot
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But how much more extraordinary is it that, whereas what we might call the coxcombries of education – e.g., the elements of astronomy – are now taught to every school-girl, neither mothers of families of any class, nor school-mistresses of any class, nor nurses of children, nor nurses of hospitals, are taught anything about those laws which God has assigned to the relations of our bodies with the world in which He has put them.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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_Love_, and would be thought to ingross what all the young Coxcombs of the Town admire and covet.
The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country
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He was already credited with the conquest of Mme. de Nucingen, and for this reason was a conspicuous figure; he caught the envious glances of other young men, and experienced the earliest pleasures of coxcombry.
Father Goriot
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Beneath the limp coxcomb its swollen eyes stared at Dr Barbara, as if recognizing her for the first time.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Some creature that looked like a feathered lizard, its coxcomb yellow and black, scuttled into view, and out again.
COLDHEART CANYON
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How long can this schizophrenogenic behavior go on before it essentially cripples those same patriots--because their service and their patriotism can be rendered criminal on the slightest whim of this unprincipled coxcomb?
Archive 2009-05-01
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Where are thy quips and cranks; where thy stately coxcombries and thy regal gauds?
Paul Clifford — Complete
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Marsays, Ronquerolles, Ajuda-Pintos, and Vandenesses who shone there in all the glory of coxcombry among the best-dressed women of fashion in Paris — Lady Brandon, the Duchesse de Langeais, the
Father Goriot
