"Aplomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it. Ditmar's aplomb, his faculty of getting what he wanted, had amused and distracted her. She was growing calmer, able to scrutinize, at first covertly and then more boldly the people at the other tables, only to discover that she and Ditmar were not the objects of the universal curiosity she ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... only was she fully occupied with the new scenes around her, but her Scottish cousin took up every moment open to conversation. He was older than Norman, and had just taken his degree, and he talked with that superior aplomb, which a few years bestow at their time of life, without conceit, but more hopeful and ambitious, and with higher spirits ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... Enoch leaned forward quickly. All the aplomb won through years of suffering and experience deserted him. For the moment he was again the boy in the bottom of the ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... Loiseau himself looked foolish and disconcerted for a moment, but soon recovered his aplomb, and, ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... my only thought, But then this all-important step was fraught With seen and unseen dangers everywhere, Suppose I met Miss Gradient on the stair, Or Jane—for this I candidly confess I did not the required aplomb possess. Besides I dreaded now to rouse the house; No, I would dress, then wait, still as a mouse, For early dawn, a note to Harry write, Which would my wronged position soon make right. Yes, I would go before the servants were, Or any of ...
— Home Lyrics • Hannah. S. Battersby
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