Granny had offered it to Florence for a dress, but it had been loftily declined.
Tode was someway not in a mood to be laughed at, so he gave vent somewhat loftily to a solemn truth.
That's because you are not far enough advanced to understand," answered Winny, going loftily back to her seat.
Of course it is one thing to have all your guns in readiness and get a few good round shots in, and quite another to be calmly and loftily ignored, and Paddy's instant impulse was to hurl every portable article within reach at his head.
Basil looked annoyed, but could hardly do other than follow the others from the room, though he loftily declined the invitation to the surgery.
Our way now lies past the vicarage, a modern house standing 'four-square to all the winds of heaven,' and so loftily placed as to be a landmark for miles around.
Mrs. Stimpson wasloftily condescending, and asked Mr. King if this was his first visit.
While the subject of it was breathing injury in a corner, the Chief loftily addressed this gentleman.
In those early times there was no artillery to endanger their loftily secure repose.
If we please, we may stop on the way to view the Abbey of St. Wandrille (recently purchased by Maeterlinck) and also the loftilyimpressive ruins of the Abbey of Jumieges.
She had loftily climbed to the position of second assistant buyer in the lingerie department, at fourteen dollars and eighty cents a week That was quite all of her history except that she attended a Presbyterian church nearly every Sunday.
He paid the man eight dollars on account and loftily dismissed him.
They were constantly at me to come and try it, too, but I sat loftily apart, hugging my delicious secret.
I am not," I replied frigidly, and looked loftily past him for the remainder of the five minutes' ride to the station.
There was little of theloftily spiritual in his manner or appearance.
Altogether Reade seems to have been the sort of man whom the "Saturday Review," for example, ought to have taken promptly up and patted on the back and loftily patronized.
The patronesses of those establishments, albeit so loftily inscrutable, being as nicely weighed and measured there as any other article of the stock-in-trade, are perfectly understood in this new fashion by the rawest hand behind the counter.
He made her a slight bow, and loftily said he was always accustomed to ride at that hour!
The lady wasloftily indifferent to their presence; and she was, besides, on the further side of the vehicle.
As he spoke freely and boldly to others, so he spoke loftily of himself; at p.
The clean-shaven man regarded him loftily with folded arms, while the tassel and the trousers victoriously inquired if I had a cigarette?
Twice he went over Jean's entire body, while Jean, his arms raised in a bored gesture, his face completely expressionless, suffered loftily the examination of his person.
He turned loftily to Metta as one who had not even heard her tasteless taunts.
Merton listened loftily to this village talk, gossip of a rural sport who got a peach on and started something--And the poker game in the back room of the City Drug Store!
A tall, lean, dusky figure; much seen to by neighbors, as he stalks loftily through this puddle of a world, on terms of his own.
And Wied perseveres upon Braunau; and Braunau proving impossible, pushes past it deeper into Bohemia, Daun loftily regardless of him.
She must be above them, loftily enthroned, white-fingered, perfect; yet here he was ensnared by this Theresa with her red hair and her quickness and her fearless glances of eyes that were rarely veiled.
In uttering commonplaces, she had a dignity which forced the listener to reach deeply or loftily for truth, and return from that vain pilgrimage with a sensation of having been robbed by the wayside.
Stephen some space disdained him loftily With dumb and blank refusal of reply; Then grudged him this: "I into the wolf's den Enter to rend the ravin from his paw.
He condescended loftily to leave The case of Stephen in the centurion's hands; And the centurion presently retired With Paul and Stephen both.
I was speaking of the best way," declared Sauce Pan glancing loftily at Mary Frances.
It was not so with the sufferer himself, for he talked as largely and loftily of what he was to do within the next ten years, as if he was to survive the century.
He sprang up and cried angrily: "Loftily dost thou wear thy helmet now, Einar, and always thou showest thyself as my opponent.
You then, as well as the rest of us, have been taken in by this loftily sublime World-soul.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loftily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grandly; gravely; loftily; nobly; proudly; soberly; solemnly
