1
I merely hinted I thought him a conceited coxcomb; and so I do.
2
Why, what a foolhardy, self- conceited coxcomb he is!
3
He thought: "She's taken a fancy to me!" And he was not a conceited coxcomb.
4
I was besides, like every other young infidel whom it has been my fate to meet, a conceited coxcomb.
5
A starched, conceited coxcomb!
6
Leander was much admired by all the younger ladies, but the gentlemen agreed, without a dissenting voice, that he was a horridly conceited coxcomb.
7
Some, furious and envious, say: "Who is this man who refuses what I offer, and how dares he, the conceited coxcomb, to deny my merit?"
8
"With all his fine voice, and well-turned periods," thought I, "this same Rashleigh Osbaldistone is the ugliest and most conceited coxcomb I ever met with!"