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    1. as she judged her cereal boxes as the winner and she got pride of


    2. ” He beamed with pride as if it were him that was getting through the security instead of the Super Chip


    3. It is something he does well, even with a bit of pride


    4. But instead of joy and pride in his task as guardian, and overwhelming jealousy bubbled in his stomach


    5. He found EndsWaving willing to take Estwig bareback and BobbingTwo was all bushy with pride at getting to have a human ride on him


    6. If it wasn't for them, how could I have done that stupid mindless job day in and day out, year in and year out, squeezing whatever bit of pride out of it that could be found?


    7. I took a good hard swallow of pride, ignorance and stupidity


    8. It was an event of great national pride for Brazil when the Lula was launched


    9. Floating on air, I make my way back to the car park and, in a glow of pride and happiness at a job well done, I drive home singing along to the songs on the radio in the car


    10. this type of attitude, but the most prevalent is be pride

    11. Their heart is filled with pride and the desire is to control the church


    12. The pride of Diotrephes was rebuked by John in his third letter that was addressed to


    13. Looking at them from my place in the crowd, I am overcome with pride for them as they stand near the stone cross in the churchyard watching as representatives of the local organisations lay wreaths around its steps


    14. Pride sounded loud in her voice as she went on, ‘I’m told that he’d killed several men the previous day, protecting his principals … getting them back safely


    15. They conquered other nations out of pride


    16. This national pride ran deep


    17. Laws were put in place to uphold peace, but when morality and law is subjective, and pride and conquest are the root of your nation, peace is impossible


    18. And it is this pride got home—because that neighbor would call to report what of ancestry from which an oppressed or subjugated people he or she saw that child do


    19. Iain looked up at this, a tinge of pride in his eyes


    20. Nihar had beamed with pride and pleasure when the

    21. He felt his heart burst with pride for


    22. Young and white, tall in the pride of a blonde, tattooed girl,


    23. But what kind of humility did Moses exude that would allow him to make that statement, and yet at the same time he is telling the truth? When we have come to a place where we can make that kind of a statement about ourselves, and not have a hint of pride in the statement, then we have reached ultimate humility


    24. JayJay not only performed in this extravaganza but also compered, introducing with great pride all the students he has helped hone their skills to professional status


    25. Issa nearly burst with pride when I mentioned it to her last time I was at Abery


    26. With sweat and pride


    27. Isn’t this the time that we would expect Jesus to shoot down that kind of Jewish nationalistic pride? Jesus’ answer actually doesn’t imply this


    28. Those same nations that are rooted in pride and exultation shall be brought low and be submissive


    29. One poured the wine and introduced himself as Manoli as he presented with great pride his signature salad, 'This will be my first business and you are my first tourist client


    30. Alex was looking at all of them as a mother looks with pride on her children

    31. ’ He said, affection and pride warring in his voice as he describes his home in detail - sounding not unlike an estate agent I once met when I was across in Bristol


    32. Their dragons suited them well and when given the choice, when the time came, it was with great pride that they elected to accompany the Second of the Ancients overseas


    33. ’ He said, pride showing in his voice


    34. ’ He replied as I nearly burst with pride at my gg’s performance


    35. She cried and cried and cried, grieving for the pride and the utter folly of her previous existence that had now laid her down so low


    36. Findel shows us the sanitary arrangements with a pride I do not understand if the truth be told


    37. ’ I said, pleased to see his pride in his daughter


    38. And when they sang and I saw such a bold display of pride and such skill in crafting mantinada they left me astonished and full


    39. ” There was definite pride in that last statement


    40. ” The last was spoken with great pride

    41. Ali's bat had not hit the ball, but his pride


    42. 'Look at his pride! This two-bit shop and a giant ego,' Mama said


    43. They took pride in their home and without the expense of youngsters nipping at their heels they were able to fill their lives with activities designed to displace their mutual sense of loss and longing


    44. As he puts down the phone, Simon is almost luminous with pride


    45. I could see the pride in Ish's face


    46. don't break their pride, they will stay hoons for the rest of their life


    47. Ish's chest swelled with pride as Fred had called him equal in role


    48. But try as they might, his family couldn’t cure him of his pride


    49. Anna is virtually glowing with happiness when we arrive and ushers us in, introducing Simon with an air of pride which is delightful


    50. "Pride goes before a fall", she moaned














































    1. She prided herself


    2. Kara signed herself out of the records office and the two women walked in silence along the street towards the little café – one of the larger chains that prided itself on the quality of its coffee, Kara noted with dismay


    3. people he had only just met, and indeed prided himself on his ability


    4. He prided himself on the flavors he could imagine from them, and was interested in souls with highly developed culinary senses


    5. They prided themselves on the professions they pursued without regret, nor with any feelings of personal sacrifice or loss of womanly opportunity


    6. Big Ed prided himself on knowing all of our names because authoritarian figures have more power when they know your name


    7. everything she had always prided herself against


    8. The door, as always, was open; she prided herself on always


    9. If present attitudes are any indication of contemporary society‘s harsh assessment of its past, our society should not expect much sympathy from future generations that can only wonder how a society that called itself civilized and prided itself on its ―evolving standards of decency‖ could have condoned such barbarous practices


    10. Sylvia always prided herself on her ability to identify people’s character

    11. Johnson prided himself on being a responsible person and he saw that giving Mia away was evading his responsibility


    12. always looked for good workers and prided himself on hiring those persons whom he thought would work out in the best interests of


    13. He prided himself on conquering white females; something his grandfather could not lay hands on—combining sizzling Kamasutra experiments with artistic and sensitive foreplays


    14. They prided themselves on openness and freedom of choice


    15. Businessmen didn’t stay there with their families; they visited and stayed for a few days; software people there were young couples and childfree; but musicians lived there and prided themselves on their houses


    16. She worked herself up to GS-9 lab technician and prided herself on being the first woman to supervise men there, back when that was “unusual


    17. Not that he prided himself on a deep


    18. He prided himself on his


    19. His comments were all slanted toward moving what I prided as my objectivity to a more liberal viewpoint


    20. He prided himself on what a stroke of genius it

    21. He prided himself in thinking he was the


    22. He wrought the victory with his arm and scattered those who prided themselves in their opinions


    23. The cheese too was potent, a local blending, he assumed, not one he recognised, but every village he had ever travelled through always prided itself on the distinctiveness of its own local cheeses


    24. Casey Jones had prided himself in making such fast time, that he’d named his locomotive “The Cannonball


    25. The pub prided itself on the table service and diners would come from miles around to enjoy the traditional meals and pleasant ambiance that resulted from an elegant décor and soft carpets underfoot


    26. “Time was when I prided myself on being and being called a British subject


    27. One day she was polishing a set of two sterling-silver tankards that she prided having in her possession and realized that apart from her wedding ring they were the only two valuable material things that she possessed


    28. One of the things he prided


    29. ―Inside the movie theatre, I prided myself on not being afraid of anything (or not much at least)


    30. The Greek prided himself on his smarts and felt the equal of any man in the game of wits

    31. Bill had always prided himself on his self-control


    32. prided himself, maybe foolishly, that he was one step ahead, and


    33. Her skin had a youthful glow to it and she prided herself in the way her new cloths fitted her


    34. Stellar Interstellar prided itself on the confidentiality with which it conducted its clients’ business


    35. Riz prided himself at being the best, so arriving a week before anyone else was nothing new


    36. He prided himself on seeing a greater picture than other people, an encompassing understanding of humanity


    37. ” After all, not everyone could be as perfect and proper as the British who had prided themselves upon these characteristics for generations


    38. I have always prided myself on being a fighter, and


    39. It was something I always prided myself on


    40. They prided themselves on maintaining, unblemished by alcohol, the fastest of responses

    41. shopkeepers who prided themselves on running clean, honest businesses


    42. Undoubtedly, poor preparations by a military force that prided itself on thoroughness was a major factor that contributed to failure


    43. He prided himself with the production figures of the German armaments industry, which he had boosted to an amazing extent; preferring to overlook the fact that the enemy's armaments figures were immensely higher


    44. Pierre and Susan prided themselves in being open-minded, tolerant people, but the way their daughter’s career as a field agent of the Time Patrol was turning was not much to their liking


    45. prided himself on his ability to blend in with the natives of the planet he was visiting


    46. Earlier, perhaps, Arjun had prided himself on the excellence of his skill


    47. The agency prided itself in reliability and low cost


    48. Terrorists seen as heroes among the disenfranchised, prided themselves on suicide missions, giving their lives happily as ‘patriots’ who hoped their acts of murder and destruction would force the powers-that-be to return their ‘homeland’ to their own people


    49. Even in a city that prided itself on its pleasing architecture, the temple’s majestic appearance stood out like a sore thumb


    50. They believed that they were the descendants of Satan himself and prided themselves on being evil







































    1. As we suffer death and suffering in our own lives and prides, we start to see what the resurrection truly is


    2. side of the entry, the owner prides itself with


    3. Lions live in groups called prides consisting primarily of


    4. their prides from other lions and predators


    5. In a country that prides itself in exem-


    6. someone who prides herself on being "independent", it was sometimes a hard lesson to


    7. He prides himself on getting his merchandise out quickly


    8. We walked back in silence, each feeling resentful, and keeping along the cliff passed, just before we came to Sellin, a little restaurant of coloured glass, a round building of an atrocious ugliness, which we discovered was one of the prides of Sellin; for afterwards, driving through the forest to Binz, all the sign-posts had fingers pointing in its direction, and bore the inscription _Glas Pavilion, schönste Aussicht Sellins_


    9. On my third try, I found an owner who said that her business prides itself on meeting the needs of all of its customers


    10. "Ours is only to lose the prides of our heart to their whims?"

    11. To guard his territory from other encroaching males, and other prides


    12. ranger had told us that there were prides of lion in the area and therefore extreme caution


    13. There’s gravity in his low voice that makes me more than uneasy; a young man that prides himself on his courage, I taste the sudden ash of fear


    14. For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother


    15. Maybe there’s a simple explanation? Maybe Will and Cate decided just to walk home? Seeing Dad was two hours late? Or went over to their granddad’s, like last time? The even temper Keith prides himself on is evaporating


    16. She was a magnet that invisibly drew good-luck charms, saints' medals, Roman coins, theater stubs, handkerchiefs, stickpins, while the audience ran riot, convulsed as these rabbit men stood peeled of all prides and protections


    17. The Illustrated Man bent violently above the old old dead dead thing, his prides of beasts drowned deep in sweat, his right hand thrust in hammering demand upon the air: Live, live


    18. "The man coming is big and fat, about fifty years, with regular features, and proud, contemptuous manners, on which he prides himself


    19. The man who for decades has delivered invitations for all the exclusive parties prides himself on knowing every person worth speaking to in the city


    1. Priding himself on uncompromising religious neutrality, rugged anti-Congress-ism and plebeian rootedness, Nitish had lost no opportunity after breaking with the BJP to heap veiled scorn on those relying on PR machines, media and advertisements to build their image


    2. Rome, the metropolis of heathenism, or Corinth priding itself on the


    3. world, Paul in writing to Rome, the metropolis of heathenism, or Corinth priding itself on the


    4. writing to Rome, the metropolis of heathenism, or Corinth priding itself on the Grecian tongue,


    5. Our Lord in addressing Himself to the Jewish people, Luke in writing a Gospel for the Gentile world, Paul in writing to Rome, the metropolis of heathenism, or Corinth priding itself on the Grecian tongue, James, Peter, and Jude writing to Christians wherever scattered over the earth, all alike use this word as universally understood


    6. Priding themselves on earth, and scheming evil


    7. ‘I don’t like those fashionable churches,’ she said, evidently priding herself on her independence of thought


    8. On the contrary, she seemed continually priding herself on her luckless lover's action as though it were the loftiest heroism, though she tried to avoid all dis-


    9. The foreman’s wife kept looking in at the door, whilst the frightened maid with the earrings brought in the dishes; and the foreman smiled more and more joyfully, priding himself on his wife’s culinary skill


    10. “I don’t like those fashionable churches,” she said, evidently priding herself on her independence of thought

    11. This ideal of glory and grandeur—which consists not merely in considering nothing wrong that one does but in priding oneself on every crime one commits, ascribing to it an incomprehensible supernatural significance—that ideal, destined to guide this man and his associates, had scope for its development in Africa


    12. Suppose we had descended from those nations—from the last, especially, which stood self-condemned, on her own confession, as incapable of free government, hugging her chains, glorying in her shame, priding herself in the slave's last poor distinction, the splendor of her tyrant master? Had we sprung from the loins of Frenchmen, (he shuddered at the thought!) where would have been that proud spirit of resistance to Ministerial encroachment on our rights and liberties, which achieved our independence? We should have submitted to the tea tax, the stamp act, and the whole train of Grenville and North ministerial oppression


    13. The education of Greece generally, even when the Greek mind had attained its highest culture, was still largely physical—philosophers, statesmen, and poets priding themselves as much upon their athletic feats as upon their intellectual endowments


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    Synonyms for "pride"

    pride superbia pridefulness congratulate plume arrogance disdain contumely insolence loftiness self-regard self-esteem self-respect egoism self-love self-satisfaction happiness pack drove bunch

    "pride" definitions

    a feeling of self-respect and personal worth


    satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements


    the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards


    a group of lions


    unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)


    be proud of