"It has given me pain," said she, sorrowfully. "And I am afraid God will be angry with us both for our ostentation."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
VENTIDIUS. No prince but you Could merit that sincerity I used, Nor durst another man have ventured it; But you, ere love misled your wandering eyes, Were sure the chief and best of human race, Framed in the very pride and boast of nature; So perfect, that the gods, who formed you, wondered At their own skill, and cried--A lucky hit Has mended our design. Their envy hindered, Else you had been immortal, and a pattern, When Heaven would work for ostentation's sake To copy out again.英文原著 · 《All For Love》
Goodwin lounged upon the beach with the susual crowd of idlers that had gathered to view the steamer. Now that President Miraflores might be expected to reach the borders of his abjured country at any time, the orders were to keep a strict and unrelenting watch. Every vessel that approached the shores might now be considered a possible means of escape for the fugitives; and an eye was kept even on the slopes and dories that belonged to the sea-going contingent of Coralio. Goodwin and Zavalla moved everywhere, but without ostentation, watching the loopholes of escape.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
This I daresay I put in because it sounded well; but I was properly paid for my ostentation on the return.英文原著 · 《Catriona》
To these defects (which I casually observed while I was translating this author) Scaliger has added others; he calls him in plain terms a silly writer and a trifler, full of ostentation of his learning, and, after all, unworthy to come into competition with Juvenal and Horace.英文原著 · 《Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry》
"You are certainly correct in your opinion, Mrs. Creighton. Taylor is, no doubt, a clever man; and yet he takes delight in every piece of finery about his house. He is more possessed with the spirit of sheer ostentation, than any man I ever met with."英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》