Word: prided
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just, we do not say. Practically it is making our market of the necessities of a poor man, and saying, "This is all we'll give. Take it, or leave it," - and he, thinking this half-loaf better than no bread, accepts; and allows us to say with pride, "You see, men are glad to come here, even when we don't pay anything worth mentioning...
...sort of curiosity and interest; he had not his mask on yet, but his face was as impassive and immovable as though that had been covering it. I marked the axe also. As he saw my glance, he, too, looked down upon it, and patted it with some such pride as a father might feel in his fair-haired child. The axe was bright and gleaming, as though it had never been used; but I detected a small, dark-red spot on one side. He, too, saw it, and calmly rubbed it off with his sleeve...
Does it matter, save for pride...
...delivered this with great feeling, and as much pride as if it had been his own, and the Board were all very much affected. Mr. F. was then requested to read another glowing tribute by Mr. Robert Br-wn-ng, entitled
...play was Bulwer's Love and Pride...