Proudest
[praʊd]
Examples
- By heaven, he is the proudest fellow breathing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Art’s proudest triumph is to imitate nature. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This possession--its proudest and most prized--had for years been nominal only. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and everybody hoped that he would never come there again. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- From one of the proudest families in Kentucky he had inherited a set of fine European features, and a high, indomitable spirit. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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