The expression was one of simple girlish curiosity, which softened in a delicious way the general pride and hauteur of her face.

He tells her he "learnt delicacy in Italy, hauteur in Spain, enterprise in France, prudence in Russia, sincerity in England, and love in the wilds of America," for civilized nations have long since substituted intrigue for love.

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.

He would have been handsome but for an hauteur about the eyes not quite agreeable.

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

Much of his reserve was now banished; his manners were as easy and as free from pride or hauteur as his conversation, though chaste and intellectual, was from pedantry.

The pilot was evidently displeased with being made "a lion" of, and gave vent to his feelings rather freely, while there was a curl of hauteur on his lip, that indicated a species of contempt for the company he was in.

Edmond Huguet (Les Sens de la Forme dans les Métaphores de Victor Hugo) gives the following examples: 'De la hauteur où je suis, la rade pleine de nacelles (à quatre rames)

" "The major will be on the side to which duty calls him, Mr. Strides, if it may be agreeable to your views of the matter," answered the young man, with a little more hauteur than the occasion required.

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.