"Aplomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... both originality and aplomb, but at the moment it appealed to us. Fortunately, we had worked round to a very short distance away from the spot where we had originally gone wrong; with the result that, aided by the gentleman of the scythe, we recovered ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... aplomb. "Don't you worry about me, Ned. I travel at a good lick myself. She'll break to ...
— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine
... Fulkeward; she smoked cigarettes; she laughed like a child at every trivial thing—any joke, however stale, flat and unprofitable, was sufficient to stir her light pulses to merriment; and she flirted—oh, heavens!—HOW she flirted!—with a skill and a grace and a knowledge and an aplomb that nearly drove Muriel and Dolly Chetwynd Lyle frantic. They, poor things, were beaten out of the field altogether by her superior tact and art of "fence," and they hated her accordingly and called her in private a "horrid old ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... his characters, the fundamental ones, on the organs of respiration, circulation, and on the form of the nervous system. The reasons he gives for his classification are sound and philosophical, and presented with the ease and aplomb of ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... slowly obeyed. She shuffled across the porch, and at the door, which Mary Louise held open for her, paused and looked about her in indecision. She was a buxom creature, of the type that the Negroes about the station would call a "High Brown," but without the poise and aplomb that conscious membership in ...
— Stubble • George Looms
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