It was the melancholy man with the new clothes. This morning he was dressed in a suit of the lightest gray, with a white marseilles waistcoat, over which his glitter- ing chain shone ostentatiously. White tennis-shoes, a white rose in his button- hole, and a white straw hat in his hand com- pleted a toilet over which much time had evidently been spent. Kate noted these details as she held out her hand.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
"That's what I want to know," whined the person in sequins, who had contributed various ejaculations unworthy of report, and finally subsided behind an ostentatious fan.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"Nothing serious," said Julie, with that wonderful self-possession which a woman's quick-wittedness usually brings to her aid when it is most called for. "The chill, damp air under the walnut tree made me feel quite faint just now, and that must have alarmed this doctor of mine. Does he not look on me as a very nearly finished work of art? He was startled, I suppose, by the idea of seeing it destroyed." With ostentatious coolness she took Lord Grenville's arm, smiled at her husband, took a last look at the landscape, and went down the pathway, drawing her traveling companion with her.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
After days and weeks pugnacious, After labours ostentatious, See how big the mess is! "'Where are those who at our bar Their demands have stated: Robbed Roumanians rampaging, Greeklings with earth-hunger raging? Where? Absquatulated! "'Where the lands we've pacified, With their rebel masses? All are gone; yes, all up-gobbled: These the Muscovite has nobbled, Those are Count Andrassy's. "'And what does England carry off To add to her possessions? The right to wage another's strife, The right to raise the dead to life - Glorious concessions!英文原著 · 《Biographical Study of A. W. Kinglake》
MUSKETEER: Then we may speak about his nose, henceforth!. (Calling to Lise, boastfully): --Ah, Lise, see here! (Sniffing ostentatiously): O heavens!. .what a stink!. (Going up to Cyrano): You, sir, without a doubt have sniffed it up! --What is the smell I notice here?英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
{"fifty dollars for a flimsy pocket-handkerchief" = this remark by Mr. Hubbard reflects James Fenimore Cooper's little-known novelette, "The Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief" (1843), as do many aspects of the greedy and ostentatious Taylor family whom Emmeline Hubbard seeks to emulate}英文原著 · 《Elinor Wyllys-1》