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Example sentences for "haughtily"

Lexicographically close words:
haugh; haughs; haughtie; haughtier; haughtiest; haughtiness; haughty; hauing; hauinge; hauke
  1. Nor would he return a word to the queries put to him by Gasca; but, looking haughtily round on the circle, maintained a contemptuous silence.

  2. She rose indignantly, and haughtily she said: "You have never had a place in my friendship, Signor Keralio, and you never will.

  3. She discharged me from her employ the other day so haughtily I felt like a whipped cur.

  4. Lady St Edmunds, who actually seemed to quail beneath my eye, made no objection to this proposal; but followed in silence, as I haughtily led the way to the carriage.

  5. Whereupon I haughtily replied it was time he thought of his latter end and behaved himself.

  6. He was proceeding with more information, when I haughtily cut him short with “C’est bien!

  7. It is not a question of fear,” Masters haughtily replied.

  8. Don Melchior turned pale with rage, but he comprehended that any resistance on his part was impossible: he folded his arms on his chest, drew himself up haughtily and waited.

  9. If there were only one religion in the world, it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic.

  10. What,' she haughtily demanded, 'has brought you hither?

  11. As for the ring itself," she haughtily added, "young ladies frequently possess articles of whose existence their friends are unconscious.

  12. Haughtily as she held herself, there was a deprecatory humility in her tone that neither judge nor jury could have elicited from her.

  13. And stepping into the other room, he walked haughtily up to the coroner and exclaimed: "I am Gouverneur Hildreth, and I come from Toledo.

  14. Seeing that he had lost rather than gained in the opinions of the merciless inquisitors about him, he went back to his old bravado, and haughtily lifted his head.

  15. The unhappy Italian, believing it a mishap, made haste to select the biggest and juiciest fruit on his stand, and held it out with a propitiatory bow, but he spurned him haughtily away.

  16. The pews had apparently suspected as much, and had held haughtily aloof from the purses.

  17. Arnold looked haughtily at Macko and Zbyszko and asked: "Who are you?

  18. Then he looked haughtily at the old knight as one looks upon an inferior person.

  19. Mary Gosport, afraid to march in a long dress with the child, for fear of accidents, handed him superbly to Millar and strutted haughtily after her mistress, nodding patronage.

  20. She beckoned haughtily for baby, "which did come at her command," as the song says.

  21. Mind you do, then," said Mary Wells, and turned haughtily on her heel.

  22. They culminated at this moment in a great sea-fight which proved fatal to eight thousand Frenchmen, and for this Philip haughtily demanded redress.

  23. Oh, I have the means," said he, as haughtily as poor Slingsby Temple had ever spoken.

  24. I tell you he does not," haughtily repeated Tod.

  25. You could see this by the way in which he tossed his head and pawed haughtily as he waited for the band to strike up his music.

  26. Tossing his fine head in the air and switching haughtily his splendid tail, Black Eagle laid his course in a direction which took him away from his sheltered band.

  27. The Nude rises haughtily and lights a lamp that looks very like a diminutive coffee-pot with a great flame in the nose of it.

  28. Mr. Egerton was far too wise to be easily offended by mere manner; and though he stared somewhat haughtily when he found his observations actually pooh-poohed, he was not above being convinced.

  29. He sprang over the stile, and walked erect and haughtily across the ground.

  30. He glanced somewhat haughtily at the assembled group, passed on through the midst of it, came near Leonard, took off his hat, and shook the rain from its brim.

  31. Indeed, I saw no particular reason to treat this man's freedom with any indulgence, and drawing myself haughtily up, I prepared a very dry but caustic rejoinder.

  32. The fellow looked me up and down as haughtily as a Hidalgo.

  33. He states that during the siege of Lille Marlborough, through him, made propositions for peace, which were, however, haughtily rejected by the not yet sufficiently humbled Louis.

  34. Canales, who had a high personal resentment against William, who had forbidden him the Court for the insolence of appearing covered, announced haughtily that on the meeting of Parliament he should appeal to it against the king's proceedings.

  35. They knelt and offered him a petition, but he haughtily refused to look at it, bidding them go that instant and elect the Bishop of Oxford, or expect his high displeasure.

  36. The great bull, though without antlers at this season, haughtily ignored the bears, who, as he well knew, would have small inclination to venture within reach of his battering hoofs.

  37. Nay, the very palace-servants, holding a prouder rank in slavery, murmured at such a colleague and long haughtily scorned his company.

  38. Therefore she had looked at Mildred as coldly and haughtily as only a proud woman can, with the result already narrated.

  39. Suddenly they lighted up with recognition; he hesitated, and then hastily advanced toward Mr. Jocelyn, but his steps were speedily checked, for the moment the gentleman recognized him he bowed very coldly and turned haughtily away.

  40. Khabár, with his arms haughtily a-kimbo, gazed with stern pride from the other gate.

  41. She tore the bracelet from her arm, and tossed it haughtily into the box.

  42. The few days of sunshine which he had purchased, soon faded away; and he was left to wander to and fro in that splendid house, more desolate than the pauper whom his wife sent haughtily from his door.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haughtily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.