proud-stomached

He was as humble as a chela who, seeing his master sitting in the dust outside the Gates of Learning, over-leapt the gates (though they were locked) and took his master to his heart in the presence of the proud-stomached city.

Kim 2003

Those Bucknors of Buck Hill are a proud-stomached lot.

The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907

He was as humble as a chela who, seeing his master sitting in the dust outside the Gates of Learning, over-leapt the gates (though they were locked) and took his master to his heart in the presence of the proud-stomached city.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

If you get a parcel of proud-stomached teachers that set the young dogs a rebelling, what else can you look for?

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

Ye are proud-stomached and strong, and the people cry out beneath your feet, but retribution cometh in the blackness of midnight and the redness of dawn. "

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

Let me have him in Wilfrey Lawson's hands, and ye'll see what for I hate the proud-stomached taistrel. "

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892