Vanities

Examples

• But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I'm glad you're going to keep one or two vanities, just by way of specimens of the old Adam. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And then you reckon to have so much knowledge; and i' my thoughts it's only superficial sort o' vanities you're acquainted with. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I had done with my poor man's touchy pride--I had done with all my little artist vanities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I love not these vanities, which were unknown to my fathers when England was free. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His dearest vanities, ambitious hopes, had all been here. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One thing, however, rather quenched the vanities. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• These are vanities. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What dark, cruel comments upon Life and Vanities! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A score of years hence that too, that milliner's wonder, will have passed into the domain of the absurd, along with all previous vanities. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, my dear young friend,' replied Mr. Stiggins, 'all taps is vanities! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He seems to have been a good man of good traditions, set upon the restoration of Carthage rather than upon wealth or personal vanities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Sol