1 Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.
2 Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.
3 He said, in effect, that the South had nothing with which to wage war but cotton and arrogance.
4 Our cotton is worthless and what he called arrogance is all that is left.
5 But I call that arrogance matchless courage.
6 She did not hesitate to display arrogance to her new Republican and Scallawag friends but to no class was she ruder or more insolent than the Yankee officers of the garrison and their families.
7 They took her at her own valuation and endured much at her hands, her airs, her graces, her tempers, her arrogance, her downright rudeness and her frankness about their shortcomings.
8 They were as little children before Ahab; and yet, in Ahab, there seemed not to lurk the smallest social arrogance.
9 I went towards them slowly, for my limbs were weak, but with a sense of increasing relief as I drew nearer to them, and a sense of leaving arrogance and untruthfulness further and further behind.
10 Mrs. Chillip does go so far as to say,' pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, 'that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
11 They say he is valiant as the bravest of his order; but stained with their usual vices, pride, arrogance, cruelty, and voluptuousness; a hard-hearted man, who knows neither fear of earth, nor awe of heaven.
12 I should wish to see them very good friends, and would, on no account, authorise in my girls the smallest degree of arrogance towards their relation; but still they cannot be equals.
13 I can see him now, sitting on the chair belonging to that lady I mentioned - a picture of dull-witted arrogance.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Two First Cross-examination 14 Whether they're right or not, you have to concede that his simplicity and arrogance, however little they show, do weaken his function of guarding the entrance, they are defects in the doorkeeper's character.
15 When the first name he drew was declared, there arose a great uproar among the people, all crying out against the cruelty, pride, and arrogance of that senator whose name it was.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.