proud-spirited

The Arabs were a quick-witted, sagacious, proud-spirited, and poetical people and were imbued with oriental science and literature.

The Alhambra 2002

The Arabs were a quick-witted, sagacious, proud-spirited, and poetical people and were imbued with oriental science and literature.

The Alhambra 2002

Silent, moody, and utterly hopeless, this proud-spirited, evil-hearted Son of Chance, enters the prison gates, and, as they close upon him, we have done with

Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter Lawrence L. Lynch

It was so strange, too, that this handsome, proud-featured, proud-spirited girl should so devote herself to the amusement of a man like Ingram, and, forgetting all the court that should have been paid to a pretty woman, seem determined to persuade him that he was conferring a favor upon her by every word and look.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

"'Deed ay, just his anger -- _ira furor brevis_ -- and it's really very excusable in a proud-spirited young man to resent his being jilted in such a sudden and barefaced manner."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

The proud-spirited poet was evidently far more incensed by the patronizing tone of the article than by its strictures: what could be more galling than the reiterated references to the "noble minor," or the withering contempt that characterized a particular poem as "the thing in page 79"?

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

I was no proud-spirited hero to work my way independently in the world, but a poor blacksmith's apprentice, glad of every penny honestly earned or kindly given; so I handled my bill over and over again with real pleasure.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

Where is the man to be found, that, under such circumstances, has secured to himself the devoted love, and the unbounded confidence and admiration of a proud-spirited family, such as mine are?

A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

She had too high an opinion of Jane to believe that her proud-spirited roommate would ever descend to the level of her enemies.

Jane Allen: Right Guard Edith Bancroft

Was the heart of a proud-spirited, intelligent and busily-occupied girl to be won in a matter of three weeks or a month?

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various