Word: bumptiousness
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...only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived in South America -and in that marriage recovered...
Prof. Louis Agassiz, it is said, being asked at one time by a bumptious litterateur how much of a fish diet would benefit his brain, advised him to begin with two small whales...
...happy. - [Post.] If such an addition were made to the stock of the Union Railroad, the funny (?) man of the Post would have some inducement to come to Cambridge and learn something, and if for no other reason than this, may "ye gentle sophomore" never see the Post's "bumptious" suggestion adopted...
...Post, yesterday, spoke editorially of "the disturbance made by a lot of immature, conceited, cubbish, bumptious, and obstreperous boys and young men" at Oscar's lecture. The Post added that the demonstrations of the Yale men toward Oscar were "much more coarse and offensive in their demonstrations than were the young men who tried to take a benefit in Music Hall...