Exalted

Examples

• She saw the Israelitish empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Great and exalted deeds are what he lives to perform. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Dear Esther, let me only tell you that the fond idea of you which I took abroad was exalted to the heavens when I came home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Raymond had been exalted by the determination he had made; but with the declining day his spirits declined. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was a pure and exalted activity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Separated from them; exalted in my heart; sole possessor of my affections; single object of my hopes, the best half of myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• They were exalted by belonging to this great and superhuman system which was beyond feeling or reason, something really godlike. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She was placed at the grand exclusive table with his Royal Highness the exalted personage before mentioned, and the rest of the great guests. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If anything could have exalted Jem's interest in Mr. Bounderby, it would have been this very circumstance. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• In this truly great man everything seemed to concur that goes towards the constitution of exalted merit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Pleasure in our cities has become tied to lobster palaces, adventure to exalted murderers, romance to silly, mooning novels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am capable of the most exalted acts of virtue--when I have the chance of performing them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Men who quarrelled over business affairs, wives who wished to annoy their husbands, developed antagonistic views upon this exalted theme. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The scientist shows no rapture for exalted views; in fact, with an instinct for mediocrity, he is envious and strives for the destruction of the exceptional ma n. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Throughout the war, and for some little time after it had ended, he held, so far as the Old World was concerned, that exalted position. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The Dedlock town house changes not externally, and hours pass before its exalted dullness is disturbed within. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Who deserved the hand of this self-exalted king more than she whose glance belonged to a queen of nations? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My exalted sentiments lift me above it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In the excited and exalted state of my brain, I could not think of a place without seeing it, or of persons without seeing them. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The more the former was exalted, the more the latter was depreciated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Wouldn't you like me to have some more exalted rank? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Government has been an exalted policeman: it was there to guard property and to prevent us from quarreling too violently. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I really had no objection to going to West Point, except that I had a very exalted idea of the acquirements necessary to get through. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I sat--I hardly know on what--quite lost in my own exalted feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We have been, said Mr. Wopsle, exalted with his late performance,--we have been indulging, Mr. Orlick, in an intellectual evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Porter; but, believe me, sir, I am tottering on the verge of forgetfulness as to your exalted position in the world of science, and your gray hairs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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