1 But for all his habit of making oracular statements and his slightly pompous manner, he was as kindly a man as the town possessed.
2 They were harshly pompous, like men in the smoking-compartments of Pullman cars.
3 He had license to be pompous and veteranlike.
4 The pompous popular tune brayed and blared.
5 Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 6 Round and round he went," said Gabriel, "and the old gentleman, who was a very pompous old gentleman, was highly indignant.
7 He escorted them to their box with a sort of pompous humility, waving his fat jewelled hands and talking at the top of his voice.
8 The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards Pere-la-Chaise from the Faubourg Saint-Honore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise. 9 In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.
10 Aramis, confiding in the address of Bazin, made a pompous eulogium on his candidate.
11 "Arthur Charpentier, sub-lieutenant in Her Majesty's navy," cried Gregson, pompously, rubbing his fat hands and inflating his chest.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO 12 Copies were put up at the corners of the streets; and even they who had begun to open negotiations interrupted them, being resolved to await the succor so pompously announced.