"Bumptious" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which blazes true Promethean fire instead of smolders the sulphurous caloric of the nether world—when its metes and bounds are irrevocably fixed for it—when it can only grow in certain prescribed directions, painfully mapped out for it by bumptious pismires who imagine that their little heads constitute the ...
— Volume 12 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... Hammerfield's judgment of Ernest, which was to the effect that he was "an insolent young puppy, made bumptious by a little and very inadequate learning." Also, Dr. Hammerfield declined ...
— The Iron Heel • Jack London
... bumptious fellow, fond of quoting the classics, etc. One day a learned classic scholar attended his service, and was heard to say, after each quotation, "That's Horace," "That's Plato," and such-like, until the preacher ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield
... their eyes they saw her spirit leap into ineffable pride. "My Father gave it to me," she announced briskly. "And my Father said that, when I came home in June, if I could honestly say that I'd never once been bumptious—all my three years ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... state committee uttered the colonel's rising fears. The chairman had lost his sneer and his bumptious confidence. His face was red, he was sweating, he was staring out over the convention and ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
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