"Cocksure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... He was so cocksure and so satisfied with the general flabbiness of the French that suddenly it occurred to Christophe that Kohn was a thousand times more of a foreigner in France than himself: and there was ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... for a moment at the idea, but the old cocksure manner came back again, and he pooh-poohed my valuation with ...
— The Recipe for Diamonds • Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
... reason to be? To see you—you!—accepting an impertinence of this kind so quietly. For it IS an impertinence, Louise, that a man you hardly know should write to you in this cocksure way and ask you to marry him. ...
— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson
... the job of tackling her," said Gorman. "He won't find it a bit pleasant. I daresay he doesn't know Madame Ypsilante. He wouldn't be so cocksure of himself if he did. She's the kind of woman who throws things about if she's the least irritated. If the Emperor suggests her selling those jewels there'll be a riot. But it's no business of mine. If that Emperor of ...
— The Island Mystery • George A. Birmingham
... as Earth took form and grew round in the interminable reaches of space ahead of us, I got on well with Captain Crane. It started when she asked me if I were still so cocksure that woman had no place in the U. S. W. Upper Zone Patrol, and I was forced to answer that I was not. After that, one thing led ...
— The Winged Men of Orcon - A Complete Novelette • David R. Sparks
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