So popular was it with the “bloods” of high life that it constituted the best paying literary capital for certain authors and dramatists.
An excellent exponent of the false and forced “high life” which was so popular during the minority of George IV.
It is professedly intended to ridicule the reigning fashions of high life in the year 1742.
Fortunately for the world in general, she has taken it into her head, that condescension is the most distinguishing virtue of high life; so that the same pride of family which renders others imperious, is with her the motive of affability.
Let Miss Mirvan, then, Madam, shine in all the splendour of high life; but suffer my child still to enjoy the pleasures of humble retirement, with a mind to which greater views are unknown.
Those flaunting carriages, powdered and favoured footmen, were in attendance upon members of the Newcome family and their connexions, who were celebrating what is called a marriage in high life in the temple within.
What a pity it is he had not been here a short while since for a marriage in high life, to give away his dear Barnes, and sign the book, along with the other dignitaries!
When Lord Byron says, 'I have seen a great deal of Italian society, and swum in a gondola; but nothing could equal the profligacy of high life in England .
The Rotterdam Gallery has An Interior of High Life by this artist.
Doddington has been already spoken of as a wit; and even Walpole, fastidious as he was, gives some instances of that readiness which delights the loungers of high life.
He had been for some time suffering under the great disease of high life, high living.
Walpole, though formed in courts, fashioned in politics, and a haunter of high life to the last, now and then exhibits a feeling worthy of a manlier vocation, and an honester time.
There all was show and scene-shifting the tinsel of high life, and the frolic, of brilliant frivolity.
As far as I was able to understand, he has a very important case on hand--a sort of romance in high life; and I think he wants your assistance to unravel it; it seems to be baffling him.
I think Mr. Taylor will have no hesitation in agreeing with you that he is clever; nevertheless, it might be worth while to see him and to assist him if you can, because nothing so takes the public as a romance in high life.
When Mr. Hardwick saw her, he asked how much space he should have to reserve for the romance in high life; but she told him there was nothing in the case, so far as she could see, to interest any sane reader.
Having mentioned conditions in England, I will give a glimpse of London "high life" two years before the war.
The great spell of high life in this country seems to be repose.
On this fateful Friday every copy of "High Life" was sold in no time, and before the sun had set Zinka's name was in every mouth.
Will she earn her reward in the form of a coronet and will the pages of 'High Life' ere long announce a fashionable marriage in which this young lady will fill a part?
The touches of nature, the vivid sketches of high life, the subtle renderings of the phases and fancies of society, are also admirably done.
The 'novel of high life,' as it used to be called, has of late years fallen into disrepute.
If they do so now it is an instance of the race for "el high life," of which the writer quoted above complains.
However, even that may come to pass in the struggle for "el high life," of which some of the Spanish writers complain so bitterly.
Nevertheless, a recent Spanish writer laments the fact that in the race for "el high life" his fellow-countrywomen "are not ashamed to drink whisky!
His Uncle has declared his marriage with his housekeeper; and the Morning Erald (that emusing print) has a paragraf yesterday in the fashnabble news, headed 'Marriage in High Life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
