How To Use Proud In A Sentence
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Word can say so little when someone cares so much. Mother,I'm wishing that these were a way to tell you the things that I'd so like to say How thankful I am and how very proud,too,to have a wonderful mother like you.
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It was a responsible situation he felt for a boy of thirteen, and he meant to do his very best to keep it now that he had been lucky enough to get it; in the far-off future, too, he saw himself no longer the van-boy, but in the proud position now occupied by Joshua as driver, and this he considered, though a lofty, was by no means an unreasonable ambition.
Our Frank and other stories
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm very proud of him for how he's progressing, proud to tell people that he's my son.
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That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine.
The Sun
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This discovery is an historic one, General, and I hope it is not out of line to say that I am proud to be a part of it.
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I feel proud to come from a footballing family.
The Sun
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He struck out for the dry ground of fact, and stated it in prose Swift would have been proud of.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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I feel very proud to be a part of the team.
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That proud record lasted eight minutes before they were crushed under the German machine.
The Sun
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With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of.
Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
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You should feel proud of yourself for not being shallow and liking someone for social status or looks.
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As it stood there, lifting its proud roofs and gables to the sky, it might have been its own funeral monument.
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I'm very proud of the film and I think I've been truthful and respectful of his work.
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At the beginning of the play, we see Lear as a proud, vain, quick-tempered old king, not necessarily evil, but certainly not good.
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I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness.
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I think it's perfectly possible in conversation to be proud of achievements without appearing egotistical.
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So my advice is, settle on a style that works for you doing online research at Zappos, 6pm, and shoes.com might help, then look for the best quality you can afford; don't be too proud to look in the "markdown" stores.
A Word on Shopping
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Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era proudly showcases more than 500 spectacular color photos so some of the finest cars of this groundbreaking time.
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Sometimes they played the proud Bambara hunter in patterned brown and black mud-cloth robes.
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The fellas who have hatched the plan are very proud and excited.
The Sun
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Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother, -- [Mother or mauther, a wench.] -- that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
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Their passing and movement took their opponents by surprise and they did the club proud.
Times, Sunday Times
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Room is left for the ‘higgling of the market’, but, for Proudhon, this is no metaphor; he really means the higgling of the market, the chaffering in the village square between the man selling a cow and the man selling fodder.
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But later, these things which some man has done because he loved you, and which you call foolish, will grow large in your life, and shine out strongly, and when you are discouraged and alone, you will take them out, and the memory of them will make you proud and happy.
The Lion and the Unicorn
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(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness.
THE SPIKE
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People should be proud of their regional accents.
The Sun
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Though self-effacing "It isn't my personality to be particularly proud of what I do" the composer seems to recognize his legacy as arguably the only living film composer with both classical credentials and name recognition among everyday moviegoers.
The Last Movie Maestro
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I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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Another rematch is KY-3 (Louisville), in which Proud Liberal John Yarmuth is up double-digits over Smirky-fellator Anne Northup, whom he upset in 2006.
Polls: Dems Could Sweep House Rematches
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As we walk around a lush, hilly paddock with his two grandsons, Quinn's obviously proud of what he's achieved so far.
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His trophies were proudly displayed in a backlit cabinet.
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People should be proud of their regional accents.
The Sun
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He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud.
Seminary Boy
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Tell your son semper fi, we are proud of all those that serve.
Is This the New Pope and Young World Record Alaska Moose?
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The goddesse of warre, called Bellona, had these thre handmaids ever attendynge on her: BLOOD, FIRE, and FAMINE, which thre damosels be of that force and strength that every one of them alone is able and sufficient to torment and afflict a proud prince; and they all joyned together are of puissance to destroy the most populous country and most richest region of the world.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
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Deservedly proud of his fine record with Ireland and first years at SunderlandClogger or tiki-taka?
Wolverhampton Wanderers Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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Instantly a dozen knowing eyes were fixed on it, and a buzz of voices was heard; and soon Gerard saw the prior point more than once, and the monk came back, looking as proud as Punch, with a savoury crustade ryal, or game pie gravied and spiced, for Gerard, and a silver grace cup full of rich pimentum.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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They can be rightly proud of all that they have achieved.
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John Edwards today said that after watching his rivals slug it out last night, he's proud to represent what he's calling the grownup wing of the Democratic Party.
CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008
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But he was left immensely proud of his side's gutsy display after they twice took the lead.
The Sun
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Best value is the cheese fondue, and the chef is proud of his Wienerschnitzel.
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I'm proud of my baby body, knowing that it gave my son a comfy vessel in which to gestate and has been the source of all his nourishment since birth.
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Their city, known as the `Athens of the Midwest," was civic-minded, proud, and increasingly prosperous.
ISAAC CAMPION
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By arrogance I don't mean pride, for there is no harm in being proud of what we have achieved in all fields of human activity.
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He was a mediocre speaker, uncomfortable in circumstances of political manoeuvre, often either too hesitant or too precipitate in action, and wedded to a proud independence that interfered with the building of successful alliances.
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Proud owners carrying their birds in beautiful brandy bottle-shaped cages, decorated with fine lace covers to shade the birds.
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‘We're following the ancient Cinnamon Route,’ he says proudly, seated atop a coil of rope in the ship's bow as it skims across the Java Sea.
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I was proud to be involved in the campaign for a maternity unit for Moray.
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While some actors would resent never being able to shake off their past, John says he is proud to have been responsible for a character who is indelibly etched on the nation's psyche.
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Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the protesters and war veterans proudly displaying their medals was Aubrey Rose.
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Electric lighting was such a powerful symbol of progress that early lighting fixtures proudly flaunted bare bulbs so that no one would dare mistake them for gaslights.
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I am proud of the way we have adjusted to the bear market.
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But instead of coming on a mighty war horse or a proud stallion, he rides a lowly beast of burden.
Christianity Today
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It was one of his proudest moments, he recalls.
Times, Sunday Times
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Recently she became a proud grandmother.
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She was proud that her daughter had so much talent.
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At the city's apex resided a local elite of merchants and professionals who were proudly middle-class.
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Mom, a proud coupon queen, toddles to her little local library in Brooklyn every day, to Web-surf for freebies, coupons and rebates.
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I was so proud that Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea spent time and money to go Wyoming to condole with all these oppressed people and to reassure them that help is soon on the way.
Obama Wins Wyoming, Networks Say
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It is time to leave stoning as a form of capi tal punishment behind us as a race, to relegate it to the same place we have put stringing heretics on racks -- in a chapter of our past that we are not proud of.
José Ramos-Horta: An Appeal for Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani
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Congratulations to all the proud mothers, fathers, grannies and granddads who have been part of the recent baby boom in the village.
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Thelma : ( proudly ) He gave me a set of books called Greek Myth mythic - mythiologgio, that's it!
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It should have made us all proud to be of such brotherhood of humankind.
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Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way.
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She was too proud to admit she could be wrong.
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Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car.
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These are finely tuned athletes who play hard and are extremely proud of what they do.
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For long enough, it was his perhaps his proudest boast.
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All autoworkers, from the president to the line worker, want to be proud of their company and the product they make.
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But there was also the sense that we were proud of what we did, and that somehow we were fulfilling ourselves by contributing to the cultural, informational and artistic life of the nation.
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Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins.
Chapter 15
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And this lamb needs ewe ... the adoption agency that's proud of its woolly ways.
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Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Now the engineers have proudly announced the discovery of no fewer than five clumps of louseworts safely beyond the proposed dam site.
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Now, I know why Beck uses the term republic. it makes tea bagger proud
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He spoke with dignity and pride, and then she too became proud.
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Paris Minton is minding his own business -- a small used bookstore of which he is the proud proprietor -- when a beautiful woman named Elana Love walks in and asks a few questions.
Fearless Jones: Summary and book reviews of Fearless Jones by Walter Mosley.
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Easily the strongest, the proud Dwarf swings a large battleaxe that he uses to cleave opponents in two, and pulls out hatchets to dispatch enemies at a distance.
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Pretty Woman
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This was a richly deserved commendation and Helen can be proud of her performance.
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They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.
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West Yorkshire's special constabulary is recognised as being among the best in the country, and we are proud of that.
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Albert proudly opened the front door and Betty and I walked into a large, light hallway.
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Von Frickle is an American quartet from Eureka, Illinois, but they proudly wear their British progressive rock influences on their sleeve.
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LondonThere aren't many clubs that secure you a quid off the door fee if you're wearing glasses, but Proud's new nerd-fest Geek Out! will willingly let you in cheap if you rock up sporting your nattiest frames.
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Although I've never cottoned to it, but it's still the kind of song 90 per cent of songwriters would be proud to pen.
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She did herself and her teachers proud as she danced reels and slip-jigs in her wonderful costume.
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His past record is certainly something to be proud of .
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I am proud to have been in the opposite dugout that day.
The Sun
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Archive 2008-03-01
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I feel very proud to be a part of the team.
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That was no surprise as she was a member of a family steeped in sport and she was always proud of the success of her nephews and nieces.
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He is proud of his daughter's ability to speak four languages.
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But there was also the sense that we were proud of what we did, and that somehow we were fulfilling ourselves by contributing to the cultural, informational and artistic life of the nation.
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There were seven people sitting in the carriage being pulled by four proud horses.
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We're proud of talking about the taboo topics.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is dangerous crisis when a proud heart meets with flattering lips.
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Carne (who had taken most kindly to the fortune which made him an untrue Englishman) clapped his breast with both hands; not proudly, as a Frenchman does, nor yet with that abashment and contempt of demonstration which make a true Briton very clumsy in such doings; while Daniel Tugwell, being very solid, and by no means “emotional” — as people call it nowadays — was looking at him, to the utmost of his power
Springhaven
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Whatever be the parts or abilities of men, whatever diligence they may use in the investigation of the truth, whatever disciplinary knowledge they may attain thereby, the Spirit of God never did nor ever will instruct a proud, unhumbled soul in the right knowledge of the
Pneumatologia
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It was a solidly bourgeois family, and proud of it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Steve recently became the proud father of a 7lb 12oz baby girl.
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So he met Chris Spitler, a Holy Cross guard proud to be a four-year walk-on who, through the seasons, worked his way from the end of the bench into the starting lineup.
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The North Sea was the ocean in your mind blue, blue, and blue proud and great sea green / kelp brown / foam white
Susanne Jorn
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She dumped the toys proudly on the kitchen table before taking her seat and another slurpy mouthful of cereal.
Law of Attraction
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They line the grass verge along the roadside, proudly displaying flags and banners.
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Place allow me to smal proud,because like you depend on.
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Mention any features of which you are especially proud and which you would like the judges to see.
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A prouder boast would be that it was ‘the most patriotic’.
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Honourability and integrity might well have been his middle names, and when he retired and put the uniform away he did so with a record of service behind him that anyone would be proud and indeed privileged to have.
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Deirdre, who is also the uncomplaining driver, is understandably proud of Emily's achievement and commitment.
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I was most conscience-stricken by my anguished looking mother's tearful eyes; an unproud image now permanently carved into my subconscious.
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Bits of croissant flake into the bushy beard, which he strokes proudly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, there was one fine, handsome rabbit who had the longest and plumiest tail of any of the family, and was very proud of it.
How Mr. Rabbit Lost his Tail Hollow Tree Stories
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She wore her new white piqué dress and bolero -- made by herself with a Vogue pattern -- of which she was very proud.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Asked if he is ever embarrassed at being labeled a junkman, Scudamore notes that "it's not the sexiest business, but my family and friends are proud of what I've achieved.
Dan Dorfman: The Junkman Cometh
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Proud mums made the decorative costumes and one even volunteered her services as a pianist.
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Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict.
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Surrey ambulance staff have always been justifiably proud of their quality of delivery to the community.
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I'm pleased to say that I'm now the proud possessor of a driving licence!
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For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
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Leather may be the obvious choice in flooring for the house-proud festishist.
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He was resplendent in full dress uniform, his elfin blonde wife standing proudly beside him.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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He stood aloof, cold, proud, not moving, showÂing no emotion as Tanis broke, as gently as he could, the news to Ilka and Caramon that their two eldest sons were dead.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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For instance, someone who is especially house proud will not want a dog with a long coat which sheds hair all over the furniture.
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I then had a low opinion of myself yet I was too proud and conceited to accept any criticism.
AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
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The sort of work on which I was proud to set my touchmark?
The Blue Cat of Castle Town
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He was proud of the fact that he was a self-made man .
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Could not Paul have experienced, particularly in the diaspora, a Judaism so set upon maintaining its boundary markers, and so proud of them, that the markers became ends in themselves?
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‘The owner says I'm the only girl who can eat a whole one without flinching,’ Cleaveland said proudly.
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Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
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That growth and rebirth does make me proud.
The Sun
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But the chin-length silver hair sprouting after Proudfoot's 4-month-old haircut is not due to any hippieness.
Payson Roundup stories
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Strange first post, but welcome to FR, fogman! pillut48 (CJ in TX -- Soccer Mom and proud Rush Conservative voting for the McCain / Palin ticket now!!)
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The club has had more downs than ups over the years but that indomitable spirit that it is renowned for has lived proudly on.
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Years ago, when in our first new home, I was proudly swanking about it and a friend said: ‘How lovely for you both’ and ‘Have you got wall-to-wall carpeting?’
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With prices from just over 30,000, that's an awful lot of car for one proudly wearing the Jag badge.
The Sun
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Commend an ambitious man, some proud prince or potentate, si plus aequo laudetur (saith [1954] Erasmus) cristas erigit, exuit hominem, Deum se putat, he sets up his crest, and will be no longer a man but a God.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Sporting pursuits are still slotted into the busy lives of proudly self-made people.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of these dear people are even ignorant as to who 'bogie' is, or why we should be so proud of beating him.
The Rosary
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They were proud of what they tried to do because, you know, there was a good-heartedness behind all these endeavours, and they were glad to be able to talk about it, and they all did.
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“So, if men would but stand stock still like your soldan, you would play the tyrant with them, Master Proudfute?”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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His regular spot was left empty, the grass he would normally flatten sitting upright and proud.
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You should be proud of your skin color no matter what race you are.
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He felt his eyes straying to the Croce al Trebbio, the little granite column in the center of the piazza upon which a little bronze warrior proudly bore his sword.
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Mr Rudd wept as he said he was proud of his achievements - but not of 'blubbering'.
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It was a force to be proud of: the unit was outfitted with state of the art weaponry, and each had a shield strapped on his back.
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The duke is understandably proud of Lady Helen and her achievements.
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His stockbroking colleagues were a bit suspicious of him at first, but his hard work and the business he brought in changed their minds, and when the book came out and they realised exactly what his background was and how great a journey he'd made, they became both supportive and proud of him.
In London for the publication of his autobiography, Li Cunxin talks to ballet.co.uk about the book and about his life as a dancer.
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Sometimes the entire face of the stone can be lost leaving a honeycomb of cement mortar standing proud, forming a water trap and increasing the risk of frost damage.
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The regime is crumbling fast and its proud, stubborn old President faces the imminent prospect of defeat.
Times, Sunday Times
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She is pardonably proud of her wonderful cooking.
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I am not proud, also not commit tomfoolery, is tired of all depend on.
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By and by, when in her turn, back in the festally decorated house, she came to give the newly married pair her felicitations, she was well pleased to see Stuart quite himself again, smiling at her with the proud look of the bridegroom from whom no human being can wrest the prize he has just secured.
Under the Country Sky
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A baya of enterprise, energy and skill may be the proud builder of four nests in a colony, each happily occupied with a female on eggs.
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This is a programme that any pragmatic centre-right government could be proud of.
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Clive and Elsa are massively proud of the new male and female they have in their tank, whom they are now encouraging to perform a mating ritual-dance known as imprinting and whom they whimsically name Fred and Ginger.
Splice
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USA should restore ties, and try to address the moderates in Iran without assuming the civilisationally-superior tone of hectoring or blustering. proudlyleft
New Statesman
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Yeah. The point is that she's extremely house-proud. She can always make her room comfortable.
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He was there last week, preening himself, powerful and proud as ever, but unmistakably a man who had overstayed his welcome.
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We're proud of talking about the taboo topics.
Times, Sunday Times
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James was rich and on the make, Lee proud, talented and ruined.
THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
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He is too proud now to be seen with his former friends.
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She proudly showed off the condoms, lubricant and standard paraphernalia before producing ‘the most important thing’ - a vaginal douche.
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The manager will feel justly proud of their performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the girls basketball coach has given the school and the town of Bushnell even more reason to be proud.
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He wore his letter jacket as proudly as a king would his crown, and he hauled his bag over one shoulder.
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For years his proudest boast has been that while others have criticised his growth forecasts, he has ended up having the last laugh.
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Standing proudly on an isolated promontory, this 13th century stronghold once commanded the whole upper part of the Great Glen.
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But it is fantastic to get this recognition for something I am proud of.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bits of croissant flake into the bushy beard, which he strokes proudly.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am proud of my first attempt at real Italian cooking for the simple reason that it did not involve opening jars of ready-made sauce and popping garlic bread in the oven.
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Im proud to work for a company that takes the term customer service so literally.
Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us
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Old plants can have all their leaves cut away to leave the flower stems naked and proud.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can be justly proud of your achievement.
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“No wonder,” he thought, “if, courted by the son of a proud and powerful baron, she can no longer spare a word or look to the poor fortuneless page.”
The Abbot
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As the first car owners in their family's history, these proud new owners usually keep their cars spotless.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the more provoking, as Bunce himself could write his name legibly, and one of those three doubting souls had for years boasted of like power, and possessed, indeed, a Bible, in which he was proud to show his name written by himself some thirty years ago -- "Job Skulpit;" but it was thought that Job Skulpit, having forgotten his scholarship, on that account recoiled from the petition, and that the other doubters would follow as he led them.
The Warden
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“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds,” which was the first Shakespearean example to come into my head.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
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They have a long-range plan in place and I am proud to be a part of that.
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While there he represented the Westmorland Schools XV and was the proud possessor of one of only three caps awarded by the school in 1925.
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The rudeness of its personnel is legendary, yet it seems perversely proud to be the Fawlty Towers of English cricket, where everything would be fine if it wasn't for the deuced public wanting to watch cricket there.
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His annotations to this CD proudly point out the Cs, C sharps, and Ds that he must sing.
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Within 2 1/2 years, I was proudly wearing my sergeant stripes.
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We are very proud of our heritage and our community here in Hobart.
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Girls always look on themselves as proud princesses, with the exception of a small number of either extremely ugly or exceedingly smart ones.
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The reference library is quite unfrequented as a rule, like the mausoleum of a once-proud family that has died out.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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I know it’s possible to turn brain droppings into something you can actually be proud of.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Root of Procrastination
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It is specially designed for our needs,’ the twosome declare proudly.
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Elaine and Ian Gibson proudly announce the birth of their son, John Maurice.
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But we do intend to put something back that we can all be proud of to make a new focal centre of the village again.
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He is, in my estimation, entrenched in the intellectual laziness of dogma and the comforts of blinders. His is a proudly unpersuadable mind.
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She was proud that her daughter had so much talent.
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The company proudly announced the launch of its new range of cars.
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He insulted me and accused me of being proud and bigheaded.
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The fusilier added that his family had been anxious about his possible deployment in Iraq since he received his call up notice in October, but they were supportive and proud of his role as a reservist.
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It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son.
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And in a third he gives her a cuddle as the pair pose for their proud mother.
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