Haughty

Examples

• Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They flashed, open, large, dark, haughty, upon me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His attitude toward us became less haughty. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• They say of her that she has lately grown more handsome and more haughty. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The person who had been called Misse Cassy now came forward, and, with a haughty, negligent air, delivered her basket. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It ain't for myself, though I am not so haughty as to be above doing myself a good turn. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But the haughty Ex-Queen thought as Octavius Caesar and Mark Antony, We could not stall together In the whole world. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious, and his manners, though well-bred, were not inviting. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Georgy went into the reception-room and saw two strangers, whom he looked at with his head up, in his usual haughty manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Late in the afternoon, when she next appears upon the staircase, she is in her haughtiest and coldest state. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Cecilia