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1. The shop was prominent not because of any ostentation, but rather because any open business stood out on the half boarded up and derelict empty shell of Darklow Main Street
2. Their wealth would alone excite the public indignation; and the vanity which almost always accompanies such upstart fortunes, the foolish ostentation with which they commonly display that wealth, excite that indignation still more
3. A hospitality in which there is no luxury, and a liberality in which there is no ostentation, occasion, in this situation of things, the principal expenses of the rich and the great
4. But a few hours before, the Spanish general had cabled Blanco and Madrid that Cervera had escaped, and General Aguirre at Cienfuegos was ordered to receive the squadron with ostentation, while General Correa cabled his congratulations to the Admiral
5. He dearly would have liked to roast Carl over this ostentation, but Charly still was giving that look
6. A Scorpio arrives at the goal secretly, without ostentation; a Leo pursues it openly
7. The green-veined and marble granite blocks facing the outer walls imported from an Indian quarry gave the game away; they signalled ostentation obscene for the times through which Dar-es-Salaam and the rest of the country was passing
8. The ethos of the society dominated by the concept of ostentation offended her sensitivity steeped in a refined taste
9. In my previous life at Lindler & Haliburton the ostentation might have impressed me, but
10. the yagya which is embarked upon for mere ostentation, or even with
11. Even more so when they each bought a pair of shoes from a shop at five hundred pounds a pair, where the assistants had been gratifyingly outstandingly rude, though money did indeed break the boundaries of their self imposed ostentation and made sucking up to the deceased a little easier
12. ostentation, jealousy, prejudice, hate, and all other negative
13. tionships that contain elements of ostentation are cultivated further
14. ostentation, or to let you know that I am rich, but that you may see how, without any fault of mine, I have fallen from the happy condition I have described, to the misery I am in at present
15. Ostentatious humility was, after all, ostentation
16. With the Republicans in the political saddle the town entered into an era of waste and ostentation, with the trappings of refinement thinly veneering the vice and vulgarity beneath
17. Of what might be the capacity of his father's pocket, Fred had only a vague notion: was not trade elastic? And would not the deficiencies of one year be made up for by the surplus of another? The Vincys lived in an easy profuse way, not with any new ostentation, but according to the family habits and traditions, so that the children had no standard of economy, and the elder ones retained some of their infantine notion that their father might pay for anything if he would
18. On the contrary, he would have despised any ostentation of expense; his profession had familiarized him with all grades of poverty, and he cared much for those who suffered hardships
19. That is the rationale of the system of charging which has hitherto obtained; and nothing is more offensive than this ostentation of reform, where there is no real amelioration
20. "Ostentation, Hackbutt?" said Mr
21. Now, it was the usage of the house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole six sets of silver on the table-cloth—an innocent ostentation
22. She had a small property, which she bequeathed with much ostentation to a religious community
23. The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing the value of a minute and not always the value of a year; sober, serene, peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular sleeping-apartment which had become useful after the former illegitimate displays of the elder branch; knowing
24. Both skin and ostentation were on plentiful display, Melodía saw
25. But he returned the same day, refreshed and renewed, at the unusual hour of eleven o’clock, and he undressed in front of her with a certain ostentation
26. And the subtlety of their ostentation drew my attention
27. But it was not to be avoided: he made her feel that she was the object of all; though she could not say that it was unpleasantly done, that there was indelicacy or ostentation in his manner; and sometimes, when he talked of William, he was really not unagreeable, and shewed even a warmth of heart which did him credit
28. Though there was a dining-room in the house, the table was laid as usual in the drawing-room, which was the largest room, and furnished with old-fashioned ostentation
29. They live only for mutual envy, for luxury and ostentation
30. And can it be a dream, that in the end man will find his joy only in deeds of light and mercy, and not in cruel pleasures as now, in gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting and envious rivalry of one with the other? I firmly believe that it is not and that the time is at hand
31. He studied diligently, without any difficulty and without the slightest ostentation, receiving gold medals for his compositions
32. We have seen men turned to brutes, frenzied, killing for fun, for terror, for bravado, for ostentation
33. A single fortune gained by trading in goods necessary to the people or in goods pernicious in their effects, or by financial speculations, or by acquiring land at a low price the value of which is increased by the needs of the population, or by an industry ruinous to the health and life of those employed in it, or by military or civil service of the state, or by any employment which trades on men's evil instincts—a single fortune acquired in any of these ways, not only with the sanction, but even with the approbation of the leading men in society, and masked with an ostentation of philanthropy, corrupts men incomparably more than millions of thefts and robberies committed against the recognized forms of law and punishable as crimes
34. Lady Willshire, in addition to her social activities, is, without ostentation, a woman whose charities occupy a large part of her time
35. But when he became enormously rich, so rich that his name was one of the synonyms for wealth, so rich that people said “rich as Roebuck” where they used to say “rich as Crœsus,” he cut away every kind of ostentation, and avoided attention more eagerly than he had once sought it