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Looking for sentences and phrases with the word purse-proud? Here are some examples.
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Then they were purse-proud and apparently rich, and apt to patronise their country cousins. |
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| See, said these voices, see these purse-proud commoners who deny their parents! |
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| She was a presumptive heiress, and had not escaped the inflation of the purse-proud. |
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| These were insolent and purse-proud, and greedy to increase their wealth by any means in their power. |
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| They were not only vulgar and rich, but purse-proud and conceited as well. |
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| I can't, for the soul of me, bring myself to say that bursal's not purse-proud, and you can. |
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| Smug, purse-proud and evil, his bloated countenance was most suggestive. |
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| He doesn't know how to be rude, or ill bred, or purse-proud. |
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| He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient. |
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