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self-consequence

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  • Once a man of substance, William Dorrit (played by Tom Courtenay) tried to live with some dignity inside the high spiked walls, but much of his self-consequence came at the expense of his youngest daughter, Amy (Little Dorrit), who devoted her young life catering to her father.

    Archive 2009-04-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Once a man of substance, William Dorrit (played by Tom Courtenay) tried to live with some dignity inside the high spiked walls, but much of his self-consequence came at the expense of his youngest daughter, Amy (Little Dorrit), who devoted her young life catering to her father.

    Little Dorrit (2008) elena maria vidal 2009

  • His pride, whatever was his character, was not certainly of a kind altogether professional, but had its origin in other swelling thoughts which arose in his mind, to mingle with and enhance the self-consequence of a powerful ecclesiastic.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • She quitted her not night nor day, and in the honest pride of a little power to skew the gratefulness of her heart, she felt a pleasure and self-consequence she had never before experienced.

    Cecilia 2008

  • He stepped forward, with more than usual stiffness in his air, which was never entirely free from self-consequence, and said to Lady

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Another person whose success, and she is phenomenally successful, has not turned her into a monster of ego and self-consequence.

    Continuum Con report karenmiller 2005

  • She would bustle herself into a place, and make room for her more bashful companions, through the frowns of the first possessors, at a crowded theatre, leaving every one near her amazed at her self-consequence, wondering she had no servant to keep place for her; whisperingly inquiring who she was; and then sitting down admiring her fortitude.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • As I walked down one of these avenues, I heard, to my surprise, the sharp and conceited voice of Andrew Fairservice, raised by a sense of self-consequence to a pitch somewhat higher than others seemed to think consistent with the solemnity of the day.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • For this purpose she paid her the most obsequious attention, and made a point of being disengaged, whenever she received an invitation from Madame Clairval, of whom she talked, wherever she went, and derived much self-consequence from impressing a belief on her general acquaintance, that they were on the most familiar footing.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • Many young men of good families were to be found in the ranks, a circumstance which added to the pride and self-consequence of these troops.

    Old Mortality 2004

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