There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.