[FN#305] These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
It renders the Spaniard at times pompous and grandiloquent; prone to carry the "pundonor," or point of honor, beyond the bounds of sober sense and sound morality; disposed, in the midst of poverty, to affect the "grande caballero," and to look down with sovereign disdain upon ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
305 These pretentious and curious displays of coquetry are not uncommon in handsome slave-girls when newly bought; and it is a kind of pundonor to humour them. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"pundonor" which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
"pundonor," the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes, but their pride was silent and contumelious. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
Burckhardt, who suffered from them, gives a long account of their treachery and utter absence of that Arab “pundonor” which is supposed to characterise Arab thieves. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Badawi who eructates as a civility, has a mortal hatred to a crepitus ventris; and were a by-stander to laugh at its accidental occurrence, he would at once be cut down as a “pundonor.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
The excuse which the Caliph would find for him is the pundonor shown in killing one he loved so fondly. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Trading tribes rarely affect the pundonor which characterizes the pastoral and the predatory; these people traffic in all things, even in the chastity of their women. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Three motives animate them all: loyalty to the king, devotion to the cross, and the _pundonor_: that sensitive personal honour -- the "Castilian pride" of "Hernani," -- which sometimes ran into fantastic excess. ❋ Unknown (1886)
They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the pundonor, the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. ❋ Warner, Charles D (1881)
They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the _pundonor_, the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
They were, withal, of great pride, yet it was not like our inflammable Spanish pride: they stood not much upon the 'pundonor,' the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
[FN#345] It was not, however, incestuous: the scandal came from its ignoring the Arab "pundonor." ❋ Anonymous (1855)
‘pundonor,’ the high punctilio, and rarely drew the stiletto in their disputes; but their pride was silent and contumelious. ❋ Unknown (2004)
+ a highly developed, even much exaggerated, feeling of honour (the pundonor). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Bráhni and Beloch pomades have the same pundonor possibly learnt from the Arabs (Pilgrimage i. ❋ Unknown (2006)
