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He had whiskers — all jockeys should have whiskers — but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified — but most things have terribly changed since

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Without her warrant it would have been coxcombical to believe it But the belief made her altogether sacred in his eyes, and he vowed a thousand times that no word or tone of his should ever offend that angel delicacy and tenderness.

Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

A coxcombical young lord came up to me one evening after the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

We dare not contemplate an Atlantis, a scheme out of which our coxcombical moral sense is for a little transitory ease excluded.

English literary criticism Various

He found installed in the house a personage whom he describes as tall, fair, noisy, coxcombical, flat-faced, flat-souled.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

He had whiskers -- all jockeys should have whiskers -- but he had what I did not like, and what no genuine jockey should have, a moustache, which looks coxcombical and Frenchified -- but most things have terribly changed since

George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

He translated the late and coxcombical but not uninteresting Greek prose romance of _Hysminias and

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

They meet some Prussian crimps, and escape them by help of a coxcombical but not wholly objectionable Austrian Count Hoditz and the better (Prussian) Trenck.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

He found installed in the house a personage whom he describes as tall, fair, noisy, coxcombical, flat-faced, flat-souled.

Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

Camillo now tosses a perfumed handkerchief under his nose, and inhales the coxcombical incense of the idea that he will do all without Camilla's aid, to surprise her; thereby teaching her to know him to be somewhat a hero.

Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868