He had all the vaingloriousness of exuberant vitality, and was animated in the recital of his own adventures.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
He is talking to them about my means, and has thrown out a rather apt suggestion that I may have been led by sheer vaingloriousness and Oriental love of hyperbole into exaggerating my resources....
"Baboo Jabberjee, B.A."
F. Anstey
A super-sensitive honor led him to fear that his successful rival might suspect him of vaingloriousness.
"The Captain of the Kansas"
Louis Tracy