144 examples of loftily in sentences

I answered loftily, and they passed on appeased.

But he did not express that feeling out and out; he was hindered, as he glanced sideways at the young girl who gazed so solemnly, so loftily, before her.

" "A fellow doesn't care," said Peter, loftily, "whether his mother's hair is becoming or not.

It is, indeed, loftily arched, but not so high as the entrance gate in the fore- court of the mosque; the two elephants, which were very beautifully executed in stone, are so much dilapidated, that it is scarcely possible to tell what they are intended to represent.

"We are exciting ourselves foolishly, I think," he said loftily; "neither you nor I, my partners, can hope to remedy the conditions of labor.

It may seem strange that children should have such bold conceptions as of curves sweeping loftily upward or downward to immeasurable depths, but I think it may be accounted for by their much larger personal experience of the vertical dimension of space than adults.

"If one author had spoken more nobly and loftily than an other."Id.

she loftily murmured, and stood while her mother threw the evening cloak about her acceptable shoulders.

Sir Thomas answered haughtily that no leech should approach the sick bed without his, the Baron of Gilsland's, consent, and turned loftily away; but the Scot, though not without expressing his share of pride, solemnly assured him that he desired but the safety of Richard, and Saladin himself had sent thither this Muslim physician.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (loftily) Does He command me?

" "I am not his enemy," replied Grizel, loftily, "and if he has done a noble thing I am proud of him and will tell him so.

" "To act as ambassador from Cowardice Court?" questioned Penelope, loftily, yet with cutting significance.

"You need not have troubled," said Miss Drewitt, loftily.

What a dreary, broad plain, loftily encompassed with ruins, gardens and temples, covered with prostrate capitals of columns, and with single, upright pillars, and with trees and a dumb wilderness!

He had never had any objections to the girl herself, he declared loftily; she was well enough in every way, and his own son's child; he could never put up with the mother, it was truea common little servant girl that his son had no right to have been speaking to, much less to be goin' an' gettin' married to.

" "That was before I had sense," replied Roseen, a trifle loftily; "ye have no call to be castin' that up at me now.

We find the same pedantic and ignorant objections to Sannazzaro's piscatorials as were later advanced by Johnson: 'who can pardon him,' loftily queries the censor, 'for his Arbitrary Change of the sweet Manners and pleasing objects of the Country, for what in their own Nature are uncomfortable and dreadful?'

"Some shot, I'll say!" declared Romer to his uncle, loftily.

In Euripides, the detailthe realityall that can degrade terror into painare loftily dismissed.

"Not half so filthy as white, if you come to that," retorts Algy, loftily, looking up from the lemon he is grating to extinguish his brother.

"Friends, Romans, and countrymen!" say I, on that same afternoon, strutting into the school-room, with my left hand thrust oratorically into the breast of my frock, and my right loftily waving, "I wish to collect your suffrages on a certain subject.

Mr. H. (loftily).

Evidently she would have been glad to capture him; and he had loftily denied her.

'That's on account,' he said loftily, giving the sovereign to the shopman; 'send the things home to-morrow afternoonto-morrow afternoon, mindand I'll pay for them on delivery.'

"None," I said loftily, choosing to ignore his sneering manner.

144 examples of  loftily  in sentences