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, ?
