Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
humble-pie .
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Examples
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Disguise it as you will, flavor it as you will, call it what you will, umble-pie is umble-pie, and nothing else.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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"Cicely o 'the Cinders yonder will bring you to your umble-pie, and a Jack of small-beer to cool you, I trow.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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