See, said these voices, see these purse-proud commoners who deny their parents! |
She was a presumptive heiress, and had not escaped the inflation of the purse-proud. |
Smug, purse-proud and evil, his bloated countenance was most suggestive. |
He was a corpulent, florid man, purse-proud, and self-sufficient. |
He doesn't know how to be rude, or ill bred, or purse-proud. |
Then they were purse-proud and apparently rich, and apt to patronise their country cousins. |