He came of a fierce and haughty race, and seems to have been himself by nature, notwithstanding his name, a man of ardent temperament and strong passions.
This she did with a haughty bearing so like La Salle's that the Abbe grinned at it through his fretfulness.
Ever since my father ceased to be your friend I have asked to have your haughty spirit humbled.
But now that you come riding back from France on a high tide of the king's favor, I may not lay a correcting word on your haughty spirit.
Well, what do you think of the 'haughty mother' now?
But Mrs. Nason was a long way from being the haughty spectre Alice had conjured up, and like many excellent mothers was simply interested to see that her only and impetuous son did not make a mésalliance.
I do not want to offend him, by any means," said Alice soberly, "and neither do I want him or his haughty mother to think I am disposed to put myself in his way.
Your flocks no longer deign to mix with mine; your haughty rams, since that period, never approach mine but a battle ensues.
How would this dainty dame, with haughty brow, Shrink at a load, and shudder at a plough!
In Lola's haughty disregard, too, of the etiquette of courts and fearlessness in the presence of the great, we may detect the temperament, which would find its political expression in advanced Liberalism.
In her, too, he recognised a haughty intolerance of patronage, a contempt for those in high places, such as he had himself exhibited.
He also grew so haughty as to proceed to use them in the midst of his cups, drinking out of them, and blaspheming against God.
It is worth remarking, that this same haughty peer thought fit to resent with implacable obstinacy the marriage of another of his brothers, with the widow of a brave officer, of considerable rank in the army.
How affectedly she looks and talks, and throws her eyes around the room, with a haughty self-sufficiency in her aspect, and insolent contempt for every thing but herself!
Outside the stunted boundary, a row Of poplars tall--beside whose haughty mien And silky rustlings of whose robes of green The lowly church still humbler seems to grow.
So it is you, Mr. Painter," she said in a haughty voice.
Aristocracies often commit very tyrannical and very inhuman actions; but they rarely entertain grovelling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt of little pleasures, even whilst they indulge in them.
When an aristocracy carries on the public affairs, its national pride naturally assumes this reserved, indifferent, and haughty form, which is imitated by all the other classes of the nation.
If their demeanor is often cold and serious, it is never haughty or constrained; and if they do not converse, it is because they are not in a humor to talk, not because they think it their interest to be silent.
Hence it is that, in the midst of physical gratifications, the members of an aristocracy often display a haughty contempt of these very enjoyments, and exhibit singular powers of endurance under the privation of them.
From this time Manna's haughty and even her confident bearing toward Eric was gone; there was a sort of shyness, and she seldom spoke to him.
In her husband this had rarely and slightly shown itself, but in Eric it was more active; he had that haughty self-reliance which makes a man unwilling to thank any one but himself for his position and power.
A haughty and tyrannical king drove the Huguenots out of France, and they became Germans.
She pitied the man's aged mother, regarded the self-conscious bearing of the youth as in reality timidity; he carried a haughty outside, that he might cover up thereby the menial dependence.
Just think it over a while, and when you are tempted to be proud and haughty just remember the horns of Mr. Moose and what happened to them.
Once he would have bowed to her very humbly, but by now he had grown so proud and haughty that instead of stepping aside for her to pass, he boldly marched on with his head held high as if he did not see her.
What would he have in common with the frightened, haughty girl outside?
Calmly she turned to face down the occupants of the PP car, and her haughty expression would have chilled the blood of any PP constable presumptuous enough to question her.
She walked past him on the deck with cold and haughty contempt.
The Begum's haughtyand violent temper, and inveterate disposition to meddle in public affairs, were the real cause of her continual disquietude and ultimate disgrace and ruin.
She was haughty and imperious in her temper; and the only female, who had any influence over her, was a Mogulanee, who taught her to read and write.
Her imperious air as she quietly left the room thrilled me anew, and I began to think that a woman who could assume the haughtydemeanor of an empress might have chosen, as empresses had done before her, to commit crime.
Elsa tossed her head with what was meant to be a haughty air, but which was belied by the blush that mantled her cheek at her own prevarication.
But she had left me with such an air of haughty disdain, I hesitated to send for her again just now.
Don't you think for a moment that I don't see where you stand with regard to the haughty beauty, but that's neither here nor there.
I waited patiently, for I knew she was struggling with a strong emotion of some sort, and I feared if I hurried her, her gentle mood would disappear, and she might again become angry or haughty of demeanor.
When the Grand-Master had the sacred books Kissed of the holy laws, and from the Komtur Received the sword and grand cross, ensigns high Of power, he raised his haughty brow.
There was too much of the haughty pride of a born princess in her to submit tamely to such a fate.
Pet gave all these but a fleeting glance, and then her whole attention was caught and occupied by the person who stood between them, with one hand resting on the back of a chair, and her eyes fixed with a sort of stem, haughty scrutiny on Pet.
She rose to her feet impetuously, her cheeks crimsoning, her large eyes filling and darkening with indignation, her noble brow expanded, her haughty little head erect.
The countess, to be sure, has dark hair and eyes; but still her haughty little daughter does not resemble her in the least.
The look of saucy drollery on her face was replaced on his by a certain fierce pride--an expression at once haughty and daring.
On the plains of Bennington he nobly distinguished himself in that fierce conflict with the haughty Briton and mercenary foe.
He was the friend and confidant of Thomas a Becket, and vainly endeavoured to terminate the disputes between that haughty prelate and the king.
Within its venerable walls they at different periods entertained king John, king Henry the Third, the haughty legates of the Roman pontiffs, and the ambassadors of foreign powers.
The haughty sultan accordingly refused to hear the messengers, and dismissed them, declaring that he would take Jerusalem from the Franks as they had taken it from the Moslems, that is say, sword in hand.
The kings of England frequently resided in the Temple, and so also did the haughty legates of the Roman pontiffs, who there made contributions in the name of the pope upon the English bishoprics.
But the military friars sent back a haughty defiance to the victorious sultan, and recommended him to take Ascalon before he ventured to ask for the surrender of Gaza.
He will know how to withstand a cardinal of Mentz, even were he supported by four emperors; for He is pleased above all things to hew down the lofty cedars and to abase the haughty Pharaohs.
A haughty bronze replied: --I'll complain to Mrs de Massey on you if I hear any more of your impertinent insolence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haughty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
