To want to see my son grow into a strong, proud man?

He had learned this response from his father, a man too proud to say thanks.

This was a proud man if I ever saw one.

But he was and always had been a proud man.

An extremely proud man, he would not want to be seen in such a state.

But he is also a very determined and proud man.

Being a proud man, of course, he could not be expected to admit to feeling any at all.

Yet, these poor but proud men were only doing physical labor.

A proud man was my father that day, God rest him!

He held inside him the death of a proud man who wasn't going to leave his mountains, ever.