pride of heart

As here, against his own wildness of head and pride of heart.

By noon he had completed a dozen, which he showed me with great pride of heart.

And if in pride of heart we do lose sight of them ourselves, they only become the more manifest to others.

It is good for me, Lord, that I had been in trouble, that I may learn Thy statutes,(4) and may cast away all pride of heart and presumption.

David was confident of God’s support, but the point to note is that he was not presumptuous, because his confidence was not based upon pride of heart, but rather his faith in God.

Maria was her first favourite, the dearest of all; the match had been her own contriving, as she had been wont with such pride of heart to feel and say, and this conclusion of it almost overpowered her.

Many of our firmest convictions, as we now call them, when we shall have let light enough fall upon them, we shall be compelled and enabled to confess to be at bottom mere mulishness and pride of heart.

Earl Douglas looked at her in astonishment, and continued: "But he is not merely an atheist, he is a traitor also; and more than once he has reviled his king, to whom he, in his pride of heart, believes himself far superior."

Now we shall soon hear from him news that will give us joy or gloom: whether Erec sends him to you here as a prisoner at your discretion, or whether he comes in pride of heart to boast before us arrogantly that he has defeated or killed Erec.

His pride of heart and condition may again take place and a man who could in so little a space first love me, then hate, then banish me his house and now send for me again in such affectionate terms may still waver, may still deceive thee.