You see," he explained conceitedly, "I always had ideas above my position, and some time back I thought I'd emerge from the grub state and do a bit of butterflying."
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
These words flattered Stas greatly; so he replied conceitedly and at the same time merrily: "If you were only well, then as to the rest depend upon me."
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
One might find it in him to feel sorry for this small-souled, warped being, for he was so evidently the jest of Fate, if it were not that he was so blissfully, so conceitedly, unconscious of his own nastiness.
"The Sport of the Gods"
Paul Laurence Dunbar