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coxcomb
1. With muffled bells and coxcomb still revers'd;
2. "Not at all--I never saw him; but I fancy he is very unlike his brother--silly and a great coxcomb
3. "A great coxcomb!" repeated Miss Steele, whose ear had caught those words by a sudden pause in Marianne's music
4. He addressed her with easy civility, and twisted his head into a bow which assured her as plainly as words could have done, that he was exactly the coxcomb she had heard him described to be by Lucy
5. Beneficent Disseminator of blessings to all Thy creatures, how great and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in thrall the free and the bond, the simple swain and the polished coxcomb, the lover in the heyday of reckless passion and the husband of maturer years
6. "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity
7. "On the other hand, a man must be a great coxcomb to go about with a notion that he must not pay attention to a young lady lest she should fall in love with him, or lest others should think she must
8. Charles, brought up by a charming mother, improved, and trained by a woman of fashion, had the elegant, dainty, foppish movements of a coxcomb
9. It will be a bitter pill to her; that is, like other bitter pills, it will have two moments' ill flavour, and then be swallowed and forgotten; for I am not such a coxcomb as to suppose her feelings more lasting than other women's, though I was the object of them
10. Ivan is a conceited coxcomb, but he has no particular learning
11. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting
12. The sulphat of barytes is more or less crystallized, and principally in the form that is called the coxcomb spar