Listen for proud neighing. They were lost to the eye, even when the prancing of their feet and their proud neighings still reached the ear. -- William Pickering, Incidents of the Apostolic Age in Britain (1844) A unicorn's proud neighing can sound: triumphant reassuring vainglorious presumptuous theatric The waveform of a unicorn's proud neighing. The bold swelling at the end of the sound reveals the beast's confidence.