10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERBITY»
Discover the use of
superbity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
superbity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Winning Horseplayer: An Advanced Approach to ...
IRISH TOWER raced outside SUPERBITY while alternating for the lead to the
stretch and fought it out gamely in a long drive. INLAND VOYAGER, unhurried
early, rallied entering the stretch and was going well at the finish. SUPERBITY
saved ...
He speaks of Joan's " overweening presumption, the superbity as they called it."
Here, at any rate, he is at one with his heroine. Superbity is his foible. But Joan
was the more humble-minded of the two. She was " superb," cocksure, full of ...
Arthur Bingham Walkley, 1925
Superbity cooled out poorly after a work the other morning at Hialeah, and his
problems have been diagnosed as a bad bruise to a wing of the coffin bone. This
eliminates the son of Groshawk from the Triple Crown races - too bad, because ...
4
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... arrogance, disdain, disdainfulness, hauteur, loftiness, morgue, superbity,
superciliousness ant lowliness haughty adj syn PROUD 1, arrogant, cavalier,
disdainful, high-and-mighty, insolent, lordly, overbearing, supercilious, superior
rel aloof, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Legacies of the Turf: A Century of Great Thoroughbred Breeders
1984, Superbity—Windy and Mild, by Best Turn Feudal, dk.b.g. 1984,Transworld
—Suite of Dreams, by Tentam Kapalua, ro.g. 1984, Caro (Ire)—Demure, by Dr.
Fager Pentelicus, b.c. 1984, Fappiano—Charedi, by In Reality Portage, dk.
6
Da Vinci's Bicycle: Ten Stories
A collection of short stories based on historical figures whose accomplishments were too early, too late, or against the grain of their time
7
The Dublin University Magazine
... literature—and at length the lady, with a queenly weave of her jewelled hand,
terminatesthe audience, dismissing her companion, not a little chafed by what he
thinks her insufferable superbity.' The figures are those of Cleopatra and Cicero.
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Marciano; or The discovery, a tragi-comedy [by W. Clark]. ...
Now, I will not molest you with a more ample relation of his good qualifications ;
but, he is a friend to modesty and chastity, an enemy to superbity, in potu
moderatus ; but, notandum he is most locuplete both in argentary and frumentary
rents ...
William Clark, William Hugh Logan, Marciano (fict. name.), 1871
... Blue Guide, he would have shown me the door. He wanted a book with
intention, and I did my best to please. The Three Romes is an intentional book,
and though describing it in a sentence is ticklish and may smack of superbity, let
me try.
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Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994
... and lucidity, his final indictment of Aufidius exceeded all expectation: "
Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart / Too great for what contains it," one
spectator thought, evinced "a sheer superbity probably never surpassed in this
theatre.
