"Aplomb" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Barry Lake's aplomb was equal to most situations, but it failed him here; for a moment he could only stare. The contrast between the picture in his mind's eye, of the plain, square-toed, high-principled and rather pathetic champion of the Cause—pathetic in the light of what she ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster
... the note proper to the heir of Jervaise. He had the aplomb to carry that off. He stood on the hearthrug, austere and self-controlled, consciously aristocrat, ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford
... nuthatch which goes scudding up and down the tree trunks with as much ease and aplomb as a fly gliding over a window-pane. I have already told you something about him. I had long been aware that he wedged grains of corn, sunflower seeds, and kernels of nuts in the crannies of the bark; but one day he invented ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... into the conversation with great aplomb. He has been holding on vigorously to Mr. Dysart's right hand for the last five minutes, after a brief but brilliant skirmish with Mabel as to the possession of it—a skirmish brought to a bloodless conclusion ...
— April's Lady - A Novel • Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
... friend Count Bunker—gom all ze vay from Austria," responded the Baron, with no glimmer of his customary aplomb. ...
— Count Bunker • J. Storer Clouston
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