Those two faces looking out of the forest of long hair, moustache, and whisker—those two cold yet bold, trustless yet presumptuous visages—were the same faces, the very same that, projected in full gaslight from behind the pillars of a portico, had half frightened me to death on the night of my desolate arrival in Villette.
" "I think not—though it may sound conceited and presumptuous to say it.
It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his!
At present he's discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which he manifested.
I couldn't withhold giving some loose to my indignation; but Catherine angrily insisted on silence, and threatened to order me out of the kitchen, if I dared to be so presumptuous as to put in my insolent tongue.
"Do you think I'm a presumptuous fool?
Women both old and young regarded travelling by steam as presumptuous and dangerous, and argued against it by saying that nothing should induce them to get into a railway carriage; while proprietors, differing from each other in their arguments as much as Mr.
Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin.
" Dorothea checked herself suddenly with self-rebuke for the presumptuous way in which she was reckoning on uncertain events, but she was spared any inward effort to change the direction of her thoughts by the appearance of a cantering horseman round a turning of the road.
And yet how wrong to feel that, she rebuked herself, and how presumptuous.
' quakingly, you know, for it seemed so vain and presumptuous to think I could lead the Island.
Avoidance has been much stronger than a mass of bruises, we are only targeted at serious walking, not artificial, not hypocrites, do not behave themselves, but must not be presumptuous arrogance.
To go too far in the pursuit of form just like letting a presumptuous guest usurp the host's role, which brings about opposite results.
It was presumptuous of me to just show up and ask you to drop everything.
, And shall presumptuous mortals Heaven arraign, ?
