The rustics, on their side, resisted these privileged lackeys and called them "coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows. ❋ Charles De Bernard (1827)
"coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows. ❋ Various (N/A)
Old maids are prim'd — the coxcombs cough perfume, ❋ Unknown (2010)
And people say that those are young Parisian coxcombs in disguise. ❋ Franz Kafka (2000)
Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)
“Never, while there are empty-pated coxcombs at each corner to keep it warm.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was, in short, one of those respectable links that connect the coxcombs of the present day with those of the last age, and could compare, in his own experience, the follies of both. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These impatient coxcombs think that all men, like themselves, are miserable, save when in saddle and stirrup. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Do not listen to the vain coxcombs who flutter about every young woman, that is considered the fashion. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But though the embroidery of his conversation was different, the groundwork was the same, and the high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century inter-larded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days. ❋ Unknown (2008)
How welcome is a couplet or two, in scorn of woman-kind, to such a disappointed lover; and with what comfort he reads, in many profound authors, that they are never to be pleased but by coxcombs; and, consequently, he owes his ill success to the brightness of his understanding, which is beyond female comprehension. ❋ Lemon Hound (2008)
They were undoubtedly considered as prodigals and coxcombs, who bought at an extravagant price an instrument just calculated to spoil the work of the Creator. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Rastignac among them, and could see from their gestures that the pair of coxcombs were complimenting Mme. de Bargeton upon her transformation. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But I, who took myself for a man of genius, must needs feel attracted by these very she-coxcombs. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I must traverse the streets of Paris without getting splashed, run to escape showers, and reach her rooms at last, as neat and spruce as any of the coxcombs about her. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He is no more a destructive agency because he drew hypocrites and coxcombs, than Bousset was destructive or critical because he inveighed against sin and the excess of human vain glory. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But indeed we had some homely coxcombs as proud as if they had persons to be proud of; at the same time that it was apparent, that the pains they took about themselves but the more exposed their defects. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That [substitute teacher] is [such a] coxcomb. ❋ Degielette (2007)
[oh that] coxcomb ❋ Bobby Jim 12 (2019)
Please [hand me] my coxcomb. My [pubes] are [itchy] again. ❋ Casey Black (2010)
