Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals.
Now I mark his form and face, Issuing from his dark concealment with a brighter, haughtier grace, Well I know his bow and arrows and I know his standard well, And the deep and echoing accents of his far-resounding shell!
The slave to the Saxon was but changed into the slave of the Norman, and did not perhaps find in him a crueller, though he might a haughtier and more overbearing master.
He had pictured himself haughtier than ever, with Edith's haughtiness subservient to his.
On their way upstairs they had heard the sound of a harp, but it had ceased on their being announced, and Edith now stood beside it handsomer and haughtier than ever.
Her elder brother, who trode the path of ambition with a haughtier step than his father, had also more of human affection.
His son's haughtier spirit was exalted into rage at the idea of being deprived of his expected patrimony.
It went far toward reconciling Lucy to his interest in one whom her haughtier and more sanguine mother called a rival, advising her mother to ignore her altogether.
He was haughtier in his appearance, while his rather elaborate style of dress and polished manners gave him, in her estimation, a kind of superiority over all the men she had ever met.
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