He broods about his wife's abandonment of him for a wealthy investment banker; he broods over his daughter's decision to live in Buenos Aires; and he broods over his son's development into a bumptiously opinionated replica of himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Everybody's motives and tactics were so bumptiously obvious that it the debate took on the low spectacle of a traveling carnival dunking pool -- or would have, had anyone managed to hit the bullseye square. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)
Canellos is bumptiously content with the White Houses protestations of innocence in this matter. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The logs of each proprietor, detected by their marks, pay toll as they pass the gates and rush bumptiously down the flood. ❋ Various (N/A)
Those who were on the alert for offence, who resented a marginal note as a slight, and bumptiously demanded that their work should be printed just as they had written it, were commonly not much more desired by the reader than by the editor. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Shortly after as he lighteth hys cigarre at ye barre, he enquireth bumptiously, 'Who might that good ladie be?' ❋ Felix Moscheles (1875)
"I am ready," said Mark, rather bumptiously; "but I am disappointed, all the same." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"But they daren't hurt us," cried Smith bumptiously. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Well," said the Captain, a little bumptiously, "a parabola is a curve of the second order, formed by the intersection of a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides." ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
"A present from my lord, the marquis," he said bumptiously, almost rudely, and laid them on the table. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Many times I was mistaken, but, right or wrong, I could march into a room with full-blown importance, and cut out a dozen men by bumptiously repeating anything which I had overheard. ❋ Francis Fedric (1863)
Uncle Fountain's factotum got down from the dicky, packed Lucy's imperial on the roof, and slung a box below the dicky; stowed her maid away aft, arranged the foot-cushion and a shawl or two inside, and, half obsequiously, half bumptiously, awaited the descent of his fair charge. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
"I'm a famous runner," he added, a little bumptiously; ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
However, necessity said yes; and cocking his flat hat jauntily on his head, he stuck a cheroot in his mouth, and went smoking and swaggering on, looking -- or rather squinting -- bumptiously at everybody he met, as much as to say, 'Don't suppose I'm walking from necessity! ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)
Schacht himself was a stiff-necked and bumptiously offensive self-promoter but he was never a Nazi, a fact Hitler himself recognized by putting him in a concentration camp toward the war's end. ❋ James Srodes (2009)
Kenneth Davis — who started the popular “Don’t Know Much About …” series — was knocked out first, stumbling on “bumptiously.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Making all allowances for that greater charity, tolerance, and kindliness of judgment which comes with the riper years -- nobody ever could have remained as Britishly bumptious, or as bumptiously British as Dickens was in his younger days when he first came to pay us a visit -- taking also into consideration the fact that a certain explanatory softening of earlier criticisms was politic, that the novelist found a city far more to his taste in 1868 than he had found in 1842 is not for a moment to be questioned. ❋ Arthur Bartlett Maurice (1909)
"It was a big blow because I was relatively young, late thirties, and I had had a seamless, upward trajectory and was bumptiously self-confident. ❋ Unknown (2009)
