| To earn a living, he sublets his flat to two people who are very different from himself: a beautiful and light-headed student and Jérôme, an overproud graphic designer. |
| Eicke was considered by people close to him to be overproud, jealous, brutal, humorless, distrustful and fanatic. |
| Perhaps they were overproud and reserved, for they held themselves aloof from those about them. |
| May God prevent strife at home, but there be overproud hearts and over-cunning heads in this good land of ours. |
| We at time of year Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit trees, Lest, being overproud in sap and blood, With too much riches it confound itself. |
| They say he wrought you ill, and was cruel when he should have been gentle with you, and was overproud of his office. |
