vainness
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O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!
From The Book of Mormon by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
It was as though the love letter of Juliet had led her here to show her as in a glass darkly the vainness of love in the vainness of life.
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
"Oh dear!" exclaimed Ariadne, feeling the vainness of her wish to fly from the god.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
What is a life in vainness spent, That will not bear the common test, When, laid to rest In earth's cold breast, We sleep at last, insentient?
From The Call of the Mountains and other Poems by James E. Pickering
Shakespeare says:— 'I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.'
From The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe by Henry Woodcock
