self-consequence

Once a man of substance, William Dorrit (played by Tom Courtenay) tried to live with some dignity inside the high spiked walls, but much of his self-consequence came at the expense of his youngest daughter, Amy (Little Dorrit), who devoted her young life catering to her father.

Archive 2009-04-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Once a man of substance, William Dorrit (played by Tom Courtenay) tried to live with some dignity inside the high spiked walls, but much of his self-consequence came at the expense of his youngest daughter, Amy (Little Dorrit), who devoted her young life catering to her father.

Little Dorrit (2008) elena maria vidal 2009

His pride, whatever was his character, was not certainly of a kind altogether professional, but had its origin in other swelling thoughts which arose in his mind, to mingle with and enhance the self-consequence of a powerful ecclesiastic.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

She quitted her not night nor day, and in the honest pride of a little power to skew the gratefulness of her heart, she felt a pleasure and self-consequence she had never before experienced.

Cecilia 2008

He stepped forward, with more than usual stiffness in his air, which was never entirely free from self-consequence, and said to Lady

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Another person whose success, and she is phenomenally successful, has not turned her into a monster of ego and self-consequence.

Continuum Con report karenmiller 2005

She would bustle herself into a place, and make room for her more bashful companions, through the frowns of the first possessors, at a crowded theatre, leaving every one near her amazed at her self-consequence, wondering she had no servant to keep place for her; whisperingly inquiring who she was; and then sitting down admiring her fortitude.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

As I walked down one of these avenues, I heard, to my surprise, the sharp and conceited voice of Andrew Fairservice, raised by a sense of self-consequence to a pitch somewhat higher than others seemed to think consistent with the solemnity of the day.

Rob Roy 2005

For this purpose she paid her the most obsequious attention, and made a point of being disengaged, whenever she received an invitation from Madame Clairval, of whom she talked, wherever she went, and derived much self-consequence from impressing a belief on her general acquaintance, that they were on the most familiar footing.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Many young men of good families were to be found in the ranks, a circumstance which added to the pride and self-consequence of these troops.

Old Mortality 2004