I mean that it should elevate you to have been obliged to bear humiliation and bitterness in your own person; it gives you a loftier consecration.
But what it does demand is this: that whether married or unmarried, whether a slave or free, in sorrow or in joy, you are to live in a spirit higher and loftier than that of the world.
There are precepts in it far nobler andloftier than can be found elsewhere.
Then, when you lift it up into the loftier region, into which Christianity buoyed it up, the same double meaning attaches to it.
As an artist in his noblest work paints or chisels simply for love of pouring out his soul, so, but in infinitely loftier fashion, the great Artist delights to manifest Himself, and in manifesting to communicate somewhat of Himself.
They open out one into the other like some majestic suite of apartments in a great palace-temple, each leading into a loftier and more spacious hall, each drawing nearer the presence-chamber, until at last we stand there.
The little tapers are tempted, if I may use so incongruous a figure, to wish themselves set up on loftier stands.
And if that be so, then these accumulated words with which the Apostle, in his fiery, impetuous way, tries to set forth the greatness of what he is speaking about, receive a loftier meaning than they otherwise would have.
It also seems certain that the two last springs are higher up than was supposed, and that the Djoliba rises in a yet loftier locality.
He seemed to belong to some loftier race, and might well have been regarded as the offspring of some divine adultery.
Music raises us to a loftier plane of thought and feeling.
But in the love and enthusiasm which are directed to some actual object, it is the sustaining flame of life, and of all loftier aspirations which, as they spring from the source of fancy, attest its co-operation.
In the upward distance, at which the journeyers looked, the loftierroofs and steeples lifted themselves dim out of the livid atmosphere, and far up and down the length of the street swept a stream of tormented life.
The minor of thy loftier strain, Our hearts shall breathe the old refrain, Thy will be done!
It would not be easy to open on any one of his loftier strains, that does not contain examples of this; and more in proportion as the lines are more excellent, and most like the author.
Nor is this all my hope; there is a loftier and more steady comfort than that which mere philosophy can bestow.
Clarence, with the enthusiasm of a young and pure heart, to which everyloftier sentiment is always beautiful.
Wreaths of mist hung about the tops of the loftier headlands, and long shadows draped their sides.
War may change its shape, the struggle here intensifying, there abating; it may be uplifted by ever loftier purposes and nobler causes--but cease?
Leave him still loftierthan the world suspects, Living or dying.
None more impressive, none loftier has ever arisen within the consciousness of a people.
On the broad slopes of the loftier mountain ridges rise splendid forests of tamarisks, planes, cypresses and nut-trees, and above all magnificent cedars.
God hasten this day is my prayer, for then man will become more spiritual and aspiring for advancement and knowledge, thus, setting up vibrations that will create higher and loftier conditions for the physical man.
Humble Calvary is the seat of a loftier power than towering Horeb.
I bid you doubly welcome to the higher halls, loftier columns, wider arches, and grander views she now opens to your sight.
She would be borne afar from the very sphere of his existence,--carried into a loftier region, accessible only to his dreams.
Some one belonging to his own humble race had, then, preceded him in his struggling flight towards the loftier regions of Intelligence and Desire.
And so, where Nora loved, so submissively did she believe in the superiority of the lover, that she would not pause to hear a murmur from her own loftier nature, or question the propriety of what he deemed wise and good.
Tell us not that the Past, examined by cold Philosophy, was no better and no loftier than the Present: it is not thus seen by pure and generous eyes.
And, believe me, Leslie, Ambition is only sweet while it is but the loftier name for Hope.
They climb trees with ease, and during the day hang by their hind limbs, their wing membrane wrapped around them, from the loftier boughs.
The children's features were lightened up with the thought of their happy treat; also the older people seemed to wear pleasant countenances, and apparently enjoyed the time, notwithstanding their thoughts were in a much loftier strain.
Thus toned the Titan his tremendous knell, And lash'd his ocean to a loftier swell; Earth groans responsive, and with laboring woes Leans o'er the surge and stills the storm he throws.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loftier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
