27 adjectives to describe hauteur

"As every one forms a picture to himself of remarkable characters, I had depicted his Lordship in my mind as a tall, sombre, Childe Harold personage, tinctured somewhat with aristocratic hauteur.

They suffered him to regain his feet, which he did with extreme hauteur, and surveyed his bumped head and swollen countenance with undisguised wonder.

'You want to know who I am?' said the old man drawing himself up, with a sudden hauteur which was not without dignity, despite his shrunken form and grotesque appearence.

True, there was the third course of becoming angry, and raising her head with dignified hauteur.

[He delivers this with distinct hauteur.

There is another, striving, by an air of elegant hauteur, to prove she is something very great, when really she is nothing at all.

She appeared again amongst her friends; but the consciousness of her expectations with respect to the colonel being known to them, threw around her a hauteur and distance very foreign to her natural manner.

Yes, he would keep up his position as a Sahib haughtily and with jealousy,and he stared with terrible frown and supercilious hauteur at what he mentally termed a big, fat buck-nigger who dared and presumed to approach the carriage and look in.

My father's easy good-nature was converted into frozen hauteur at any open effort to transcend the boundaries of his independence.

" Zelma Burleigh, as she stood thus, a faint, regretful smile softening the habitual hauteur of her face, was beautiful, and something more; yet nobody in the country round about the Grange had ever dreamed of calling her "a beauty."

And it was with imperial hauteur that she asked in a low, cultivated voice with no accent: "Well, what is it?

An imperious and insolent hauteur and reckless prodigality were her most marked peculiarities,just such as were to be expected in an unprincipled woman raised suddenly to high position.

The tremendous hook of old Lord Chatham, under whose curve Empires came to birth, was succeeded by the bleak upward-pointing nose of William Pitt the youngerthe rigid symbol of an indomitable hauteur.

"I, to steal a" "Firstly, M.ererRatichon, or whatever your confounded name may be," interposed my client with inimitable hauteur, "understand that my name is Jean Duval, and if you forget this again I shall be under the necessity of laying my cane across your shoulders and incidentally to take my business elsewhere.

' 'A little hauteur gives piquancy to her beauty; I admire a grand woman.'

Forsooth, I trust ..." "My money and my securities, sir," she interposed with obvious hauteur, "which I had last night and in this self-same room placed in the hands of Prince Amédé d'Orléans, my husband.

With a pious hauteur that was natural and habitual to him, he adopted the same tone towards Charles as towards the people of Florence.

She held her graceful head with regal hauteur, every inch a princess.

Honora moved with a slow hauteur in her black gown, looking like a disenthroned queen, and as she walked down the train aisle Kate thought of Marie Antoinette.

She did not know that while the mere international work of the office might be safely intrusted to Mr. Blow and Mr. Bunderdown, all those little niceties, that smiling and that frowning, that taking off of hats and only half taking them off, that genial, easy manner, and that stiff hauteur, formed the peculiar branch of Sir Magnus himself,and, under Sir Magnus, of Mr. Anderson.

"I remember what Mr. Cathro called me," he said, with surprising hauteur for such a good-natured man.

There had been something absurd in the theatrical hauteur of his manner in this last scene with Mrs. Condorthat is, if it were measured by his own standards.

His arrogance, however, soon disgusted the French King; nor did he hesitate to exhibit the same unbecoming hauteur towards his kinswoman the Queen, who having despatched a nobleman of her household to welcome him to France in that character, was informed by her envoy that the only answer which he returned to the compliment was conveyed in the remark that crowned heads had no relatives; they had only subjects.

"Humph," said the old lady, with a most vinegar expression of countenance, with a degree of angry hauteur, an air of insulted dignity that Yates would have travelled fifty miles to witness; "the like of that's what I now hear every day.

"Well?" said Paul, with the unconscious hauteur which made him a prince to these people.

27 adjectives to describe  hauteur