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How to use lofty in a sentence

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He and the hedgie took in funds without making any specific promises, but their investors' expectations were lofty.
Our religion is too lofty, noble and humane to have such thugs and killers.
On the one hand it proclaims lofty ideals, and on the other it prevents disclosure.
The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic.
His actions have distressed the great many journalists who go to pains every day to uphold the lofty ideals of their chosen craft.
To accomplish that lofty goal, Fulham must finish among the top five clubs in the much more competitive league.
Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible.
A noble and lofty goal, the setup is an interesting one but the actual action is brutally difficult.
It's a lofty ideal and one which will probably remain in the ivory tower of newspaper journalism, but I would add one caveat.
However, considerable friction arose from the beginning between lofty republican ideals and the lure of distant lands.
A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission.
In particular, we should aim to follow their example and not let anything stand in the way of lofty intellectual pursuit.
Indeed, the whole of the French governing elite maintained a lofty disdain for the episode.
Will the Irish media engage, or will it maintain its lofty disdain for the president and his people?
Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so.
What you need to cultivate here, as a composer, is an air of lofty disdain for us poor sweat-shop craftspeople down here.
As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
However, the ITA took a rather lofty and somewhat patronizing view of the abilities of independent producers.
Unlike their British and American counterparts, French politicians have generally exhibited a lofty disdain for the concept of crafting an image.
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Because fleece is such a lofty, stretchy fabric, use a 3 mm or 3.5 mm stitch length.
The changes began slowly, when art galleries priced out of SoHo eyed the lofty, low-rent spaces further west.
Instead the prevailing feeling is of woodiness, of being in a lofty barn or, at a stretch, a medieval great hall.
Inside, a lofty ceiling with exposed beams helps keep the non-air-conditioned space well-ventilated.
The scenery on the plateau changes to panoramic views of enormous valleys and lofty mountains.
Thirty miles away, the lofty peaks appeared sugar coated under their mantle of winter snow.
Faulkner is a young, ambitious, ruthless woman who will stop at nothing in order to secure a lofty management job.
The ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows evoke another more gracious age.
Other bands heaped with such lofty comparisons might not be able to deliver the goods.
Why was someone so blessed with perfection of body and mind unable to find suitable aid, which befitted someone of her lofty station?
The three-year-old will need to acquit himself well tomorrow if he is to justify his lofty future options.
The shuttle never achieved its lofty launch schedule promised early in the program.
Standing on another lofty viewing platform, visitors could experience the exhibition itself in a similar way.
It's great to have such lofty goals, girl, but it'll take some extra oomph.
An information desk and a gift shop on the entrance level lead out of a lofty skylit atrium.
Cos the last time a target was just a lofty goal, not a commitment or a promise. Let's nail him down this time.
One clings onto a pair of lofty branches with his arms spread so that the large leaves resemble the wings of a botanic angel.
I pictured the huge flightless bird with a lofty, slender neck and beady eyes.
And whatever the lofty goals of social entrepreneurs, their success comes in no small part because they think big.
But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
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I watch these things from above, sitting on my lofty treetop, observing this human suffering with my beady, soulless, black eyes.
But for some of us, he was magnificent in articulating and carrying out his lofty moral values, like the four freedoms.
If the Declaration inspires us with lofty ideals, the Constitution vexes us with questions of interpretation.
I have the distinct advantage of following someone who set lofty and ambitious goals and achieved them.
The result was a cadre of activists who were well versed in both lofty principles and winning elections, she explains.
Chandler's fiction has just been released in three omnibus editions, a sure sign that he maintains an avid readership and lofty reputation.
Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw.
It was one of those lofty dreams I had, so now I cannae believe I'm here, hen.
It certainly looks a lot smaller than the lofty Range Rover, but parked next to one its appearance is more stumpy than stunted.
For centuries, the llama, a domesticated cousin of the camel, has been the tireless pack animal of this lofty region of South America.
These homespun medications were sold by itinerant hucksters, pharmacies, and whoever could spellbind a listener with lofty promises of cure.
Since that time nearly every military effort has had to cloak itself in some lofty universal principal.
White clouds cling to lofty mountain peaks, which rise vertically from out of glacial basins, stretching all the way back to the Southern Alps.
Of course she knew where he was now, knew that he had come close to achieving his lofty goals, and she honoured him for that.
Far in the west the lofty crest of the Rockies flickered snow white between swirling openings in the cloud cover.
The landscape was still lofty and steep but had mellowed from bleak, high Andes to dense, lush cloud forest.
All of the lofty transcendental concepts that are in the higher worlds are meant to become a part of our experience and cognizance.
Shrugging these lofty analogies a bunch of students compared the roof to an inverted computer.
However, lofty doctors who show no warmth, compassion or concern are becoming rare.
He is a compassionate man with vision who tirelessly pursues his lofty goals.
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Think of North East, and the mind involuntarily conjures up images of lofty hills and sloping vales.
Sited on a lofty plinth, the three-storied marble structure has all the hallmarks of exquisite art.
A kitchen galley looks down on diners, perhaps the chefs use their lofty position to gather some firsthand feedback on the food.
From sandy beaches to lofty mountain tops, rolling dales to bustling cities, we've got the lot.
I imagined she must have practiced hours at a time perfecting her petite prance in those lofty heels.
A free five-minute shuttle ride takes you to the beach club or the small town of Calvi, a lofty 13th-century Genoese citadel.
Indeed, 7 Stories has all the makings of an absurdist comedy, but beneath its veil of irreverence lurks a vehicle for lofty, provoking ideas.
Henry's own, lofty response, more in sorrow than in anger, was to deplore the muckraking of his opponents.
And do you want an intimate room, modest in size, or a grand space with a lofty ceiling and broad expanse of floor?
The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill.
He legitimated the cultivation of lyrical tropes, as the poet used them to enrich what is otherwise a lofty epic poem on the First Crusade.
But the lofty merchant princes had fallen hard, the priests had shuffled off, and the profane durwans took over.
The song projects lofty human ideals and nothing of religious sectarianism or exclusivism.
The spacious area was surrounded with lofty walls, whitewashed and cleansed thoroughly, topped with black curved tiles like a sort of roofing.
Neither of those lofty attributes encompassed the desperate desire to win the support of tabloid newspapers.
Heels range from lofty stiletto to non existent, but kitten heels and flat mules appear to be the most popular.
One group of plants that stands out conspicuously are those lofty and lanky woody perennials, the trees and shrubs.
This is a tranquil lofty space, white-painted, lined down each wall with illuminated rendered alcoves and upholstered benches.
Unfortunately, despite our lofty plans and the decent quality of the zines, we only put out two issues.
Scotland, despite a poor series of results leading up to the tournament, possess lofty aspirations.
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His lofty glance seemed to measure her from the roots of her hair to the tips of her toes, leaving the girl stifling with self-consciousness.
This is her favourite pastime as it escalates her already lofty notions of self-importance.
From his lofty perch atop the tallest pine at the highest point of Drangle pass, Forlon surveyed the peaceful terrain with satisfaction.
The 12 girls took to the lofty heights of Lugnaquilla to participate in a sponsored walk in aid of the Special Olympics.
From the lofty heights of Neiphin Mountain, you can view the landscape from Keenagh all the way to Easkey.
The island boasted a cluster of lofty mountains, the tallest of which the locals named Ice Peak.
Daredevil can't shoot industrial strength spider webs or soar between lofty towers.
It is a city rather than a town, that lofty, majestic cathedral ensuring its status.
You still enter a lofty domed hall by a small door set in an imposing gate.
Finally, Ms Earle says human rights lawyers must come down from their lofty perches.
Giant yellow-poplars are remarkable for their lofty heights and barely tapering columnar shapes.
The cottage, rebuilt in 1997 in line with the description in the poems, reminds visitors of Du's simple life and lofty ideals.
Do they have the same lofty goals and aspirations as able-bodied individuals?
They are not interested in lofty visions and high-minded idealism.
They have set themselves the lofty goal of promoting oneness in the banking sector with the ultimate aim to raise funds for the vulnerable people in society.
As such, the cultural marketplace is filled with pretentious imbeciles and their perfectly douchey works, and none of them coming close to achieving their lofty goals.
The choice of the venue at that precise time was calculated to do the maximum damage to the prime minister and to highlight his lofty disdain for anyone who gainsays him.
That might not seem like a lofty goal, but after the plans last year fizzled out and the hoped-for inaugural festival was cancelled, it's a realistic one.
In Munich large paintings were displayed in lofty rooms fitted with top lights, while small cabinet pictures were hung in the surrounding rooms with windows at the side.
Be reliable supports of the Songun revolution possessed of a lofty spirit and rich knowledge!
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There is a tradition in this country stretching back to Thomas Jefferson of lofty ideals for our colleges and universities.
As always, its leaders paid lip service to lofty ideals to obscure the ugly base alloys.
A grandstand believed to have been at the trotting track since early in the century was shifted to the new football ground, where it offered a lofty view over the valley.
I will not hear of any lofty titles as long as I stay on this island!
I hoped that lofty ambition alone might sneak me through to the finals.
Over the years he admits he has at times strayed from that lofty ideal.
It is a world where nobody aspires to anything lofty, noble, or daring, and where nobody must love another when such love is fragile, mysterious, and hard.
The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
Hopefully, my fortune will assist him in achieving that lofty goal.
On no account is he an aloof, lofty person, but instead he eats and drinks with the Minjung, sometimes asking favours from them or vice versa, granting their requests.
The road runs down hushed aisles of lofty Douglas fir, hemlock and Sitka spruce, and passes through deadened stretches of clear-cut forest, forlorn and empty.
The panorama from his lofty perch, he assures me, is quite spectacular.
In the years after the Second World War, American history, which had been viewed with lofty condescension in most British universities, became an increasingly popular subject.
Unlike some of his predecessors, he never seems lofty or arrogant.
The festival, focussing on gold and allied industry, will open a window to the world to the unique and lofty craftsmanship of gold jewellery in Kerala.
There is little indication that their parents begrudged them their cultivated and hunting ways provided they evinced lofty intellectual interests.
Travel with lofty purpose really began when it was accessible only to a small and privileged class with unlimited time to travel.
Powell ranks with Patrick Smith in the hierarchy of Florida historical novelists and that is lofty territory, indeed.
Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented.
The founding fathers of the European movement had lofty aims in seeking to avoid ever again the terrible wars that have ravaged our continent in the past.
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The funeral procession was solemn but lofty, as befit the prince.
He now occupies the lofty position of Editor Emeritus at the Irish Times, an honorific title given to him for loyal, distinguished service, dedication beyond the call, etc.
The in crowd also favour Fort Rajwada, with lofty interiors by opera set designer Stephanie Engeln, including a sassy bar with a wall of glowing arched niches.
Is it the juxtaposition of Geordie straightforwardness with lofty intellectualism?
His features were smoothly regular and extraordinarily placid, as if he surveyed the world from a lofty perch, far removed from any of its foibles and cares.
From his lofty perch, hanging over the slopes of Kilimanjaro under a parasail with razor sharp rocks below, Judge Bryan Pope gives this DVD a thumbs up.
There is something priestly about him, a lofty, ascetic air.
Yet the ballroom's lofty wood-panelled ceiling and tall seaward windows, along with an adjoining dining hall and arcaded veranda, do evoke another more gracious age.
To the west the Rocky Mountains towered with their lofty snow-capped peaks and to the east the rolling plains extended as far as the eye could see.
In the nomenklatura system, officials at this level expect to move into a similarly lofty and responsible position, such as ambassador or minister at the federal level.
At her age she still has at least one more year in the under-19 section, but scaling the lofty heights of university in Christchurch seems to be her next challenge.
The broad lofty walls were hung here and there with dingy paintings, and curtains, once splendid and gaudy, but now mouldering, dusty and dull, swept in massive folds from the ceiling to the floor.
The Berkeley Court Hotel's opulent ballroom with its lofty ceiling, tall mirrors and huge chandeliers offers the perfect backdrop for a glamorous night.
The autumn sky is so lofty that I feel like roaming around the heavens.
She put a hand on her hip, looking down at me from her lofty height.
There are magnificent views of the whole island from this lofty perch.
While temping at a hedge fund, an unregulated investment pool with lofty fees and million-dollar investment minimums, I accepted a full-time position.
I believe that this is because their view of society is as indistinct as the view of the street below from the lofty heights of a high-rise building.
It is doubtful whether tomorrow's victor will reach quite those lofty heights, but No Kidding is a horse with a bright future, nevertheless, and he is fancied to oblige.
Our lights barely reached the top of this dramatically sculpted abyss, and we sat in awe for a good ten minutes just peering up into its lofty heights.
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Barely anyone valued the river, preferring instead to live at lofty heights that kissed the clouds, so I had been able to rent a small apartment overlooking the Effenlie.
If you're a young man about town, you strut stiffly, head up, as if the place smells of disinfectant, put on a lofty expression and speak through your nose.
How could a man of such a lofty ethical character stoop so basely?
Not that Bob has wigged out, but that the Hotten Courier is housed in such a lofty tower.
Readers shouldn't be intimidated by the lofty concepts or multisyllabic genetics jargon, though.
Your lofty principles and your slangless diction do you honor, but they are too elegant for every-day existence.
According to the Botswana Chamber of Mines, they have lofty ideals to be counted amongst the top five coal producers in the world.
It's a lovely old walled city, touristed with being touristy, and the food easily lives up to lofty expectations.
That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.
We especially liked Pepperwood Springs Vineyards for its lofty view of the entire valley, and a Pinot Noir that has a cult following.
Even without the view the lofty light-filled interior, paved with big golden panels of hoop pine ply, would be exhilarating.
Peter Tither, who paid online firm Noble Titles PS2,000 for lofty Lord of the Manor status, believes he is still a commoner.
He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
For in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights.
On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.
Lamb liquidator, lacking loquaciousness, lay lovely, long, lazy, lofty loops.
Unlike Alex, Doug functioned very well in the debates, as willing as the next deep thinker to go tripping out onto lofty constructions of ideology and rhetoric.
Then the huge reddish trunks of massarandubas began to slide past us, their lofty crowns matting together so thickly that they seemed to make a solid roof.
Gandhi considered Manusmriti to include lofty teachings but a text with inconsistency and contradictions, whose original text is in no one's possession.
A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a sealight forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay.
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There is a comfortable inn at this picturesque spot, where those who purpose speeling the lofty Ben generally prepare for their arduous undertaking.
Nothing could be more exciting and exhilarating than a slide, on sleigh or toboggan, from the lofty summit of the ice-mound or cone down to its base.
The press saw its lofty role to be the advancement of civic republicanism based on public service, and downplayed the liberal, individualistic goal of making a profit.
Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all.
This temple, like many other temples in South India, is a fine example of the Dravidian style of architecture and is remarkable for its lofty gates known locally as Gopurams.

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The temples were built on lofty platforms, to give them a more commanding appearance.
No other mountains in the world are at once so continuously lofty and so near a coast which drops off to abyssal depths.
I found, too, that a lofty idea prevails in Ceylon in regard to the status of the monkhood.
On the 27th of the same month he camped at the foot of the lofty cliffs of Acoma.
We are not for a moment to consider Cesare as actuated in all this by any lofty humanitarianism.
He did love her, love her adoringly, as he loved what was great and lofty in art.
Their notion of the real meaning of the period of affiance commended itself entirely to his lofty sentiments.
They were overawed, too, by the lofty and passionate energy with which agrippina had spoken.
Here and there the airway was lofty enough to allow us to walk with bent heads and rounded shoulders.
An unutterably pure and lofty joy filled my soul, and I felt, as if we were out of the body floating on ambient clouds.
This lofty and blase greeting can come from none other than Roland Barnette.
The condition of any permanent influx is that the attunement should be habitually and continuously lofty.
It must recognize that there is little hope in going back to lofty Augustan ideals.
This Greek bireme, with its shallow hull and lofty, open superstructure, could hardy have been a seaworthy vessel.
In the first stage from the ground, and rising from a channelled base, are two lofty pointed arches resting on slender pillars.
The lofty spur of the Chiltern Hills which overhangs the church of Ellsborough is traditionally the site of his tomb.
Although Cobourg Island was 45 miles distant from us, its lofty rounded outlines were very distinct, and much covered with snow.
Where this chain is lofty, as between Malabar and Coimbatore, the rainclouds are intercepted and give a rainfall of 150 in.
In coley's eyes they were phenomenal, and he was inclined to resent the colonel's lofty manner.
Passing up a valley between lofty hills, noticed a corduroy road made of transverse trunks of trees, as seen in Canada.
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But your Italian is smooth and lofty, and his language is cousin-german to the Latin.
The coved sides themselves are painted with octagonal panels, diminishing upwards to simulate a lofty pierced dome.
Behind, the lofty houses of the city rose in an ampitheatre of cubical form.
The lofty nest, or Termitarium, constitutes a hillock in the form of a cupola.
He worshipped the lofty, but it was with tabor and cymbal and high-sounding lute.
He made a decrescendo tinkling, and his lofty features lapsed into their normal mournfulness.
And this of all the professions is the one on which he would graft his scion of lofty morality?
Pasteur's own thoughts with regard to dissymmetry rose above even the lofty heights of mere earthly biology.
The figure wore a lofty bridal coiffure picked out with sprigs of orange blossom, and smiled with a dollish smile.
The lower ranges of the hills are everywhere covered with scrubby eucalypti, which only occasionally grow into lofty forest trees.
This woman is of a duplicity, a falseness, impossible for your lofty soul to comprehend.
I felicitate you on the superior and lofty aims which have drawn you together.
Behind us, to the north, the panorama of a mighty crest unrolled itself, with flattish 110 lofty domes covered with eternal snow.
At each angle of the crossing are masses of shafted piers, connected by wide and lofty rounded arches.
But the heroic quatrain was regarded in general as too lofty, stately, cool, for elegy.
Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn schemes began their struggling claim for his attention.
All the time the hoarder stands with nose in the air, the picture of lofty indifference.
Well may the Socinian assume this lofty tone, with those whom we are now addressing.
The church has a tower with triple belfry windows, which is lofty and finished with pinnacles and spirelet.
In 1848 the inner city of Vienna was enclosed within a broad and lofty bastion, fosse, and glacis.
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Its lofty mountain peaks basking in the clear blue ether, beckoned to us inspiringly and raised our expectations of success.
He was, as I have intimated, a person of lofty demeanour, with a vein of high seriousness.
The night we started back for London, by jaunting car, on the road to Oxford, the Bard was in a mood of lofty contemplation.
All around were swan-white mansions, lofty domes and turrets high, Like the peaks of white Kailasa cleaving through the azure sky!
Beyond the Karakoram pass is a lofty bleak upland with salt lakes dotted over its surface.
Through the sea of green, lofty tree-ferns thrust their great delicate fronds, and the lehua flaunted its scarlet blossoms.
The first beam has struck one of the lofty pinnacles, and made laughter and gaiety of its tercentenary gloom.
Such absolute and lofty ideas they are, that they can descend to no compromise.
In a lofty way he received the attentions of the multitudes of strange gods.
Some of them curve to make way for the lofty patriarchs of the estate, which we hope may long wave over us.
The Manbo lives in as dark forests and on as lofty mountains as those occupied by mandyas.
From the top a vast plateau stretches to the lofty chain which forms the inland rim of the Andean massif.
The church is Romanesque and dark with a lofty clerestory but no triforium.
It stands at the end of mercery Lane, a lofty building with towers at its corners, and two storeys above the archway.
But I will not press this view, which may be too rarefied and lofty for the vulgar mind.
Here was pointed out a fine, lofty specimen of the umbrella tree, of the pine family, with broad leaves of a deep green.
And even if he did, it would only be as a lofty and unapproachable spectator.
Their lofty neighbour Bolt Head on the left remained as yet ungilded, and retained its gray.
North loomed up the lofty, steep rim of the Mogollon Mesa, with its cliffs of yellow and red, and its black line of timber.
To the west they were defended by the lofty cliffs which rose from the bay of Morbihan.
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Where were the ideals of his youth, the lofty aspirations that had upborne him then?
The lofty, wooded ranges of the mysian Olympus lay before us, and our day's work was to pass them.
At the ninth mile is the Ponte di nono, a magnificent old bridge with seven lofty arches of lapis-gabinus.
His lofty lady, although a Welshwoman bred and born, entertained a very different set of ideas on these subjects.
We find upon these broad surfaces enormous mesas and lofty, ornately carved edifices of rock which the floods have left standing.
To the rear of these, overtopping all at intervals, lofty snow-clads lifted their white crowns into the sunshine.
The routes to Kashgaria and the Pamirs are mere bridle-paths over the mountains, crossing them by lofty passes.
This marsh is surrounded with very lofty oaks, and abounds with pondweed, the water-plant named by botanists potamogeton.
The voyage up to Rijeka is delightful, as the boat threads her way through a narrow channel between lofty green hills.
From Ross Island, as far to the eastward as the eye could see, there extended a lofty, impenetrable wall of ice.
Meanwhile, the proud Verbeena just roweled that lofty, haughty boy to rags.
The brothers had hardly crossed the threshold of the house when an eldritch scream rang through the lofty hall.
Every leafless bough of yonder lofty elder-tree is thick with birds.
The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble.
Around this fragment of terra firma grew reeds as lofty as trees are in Europe, and stretching away out of sight.
I have had the privilege of being called a 'honky', a lofty, baldy, curly, fatso', plus many other unprintable descriptive phrases.
She arose, and bowing her stiff, lofty bow, she went away, stopping for neither, thanks nor applause.
And his unrepentant death seemed to lift for a moment the curtain on something lofty and sinister like an Olympian's caprice.
Though the shop owners are not quite double-dealers, still they normally impose lofty interest rates to protect their risk.
The cretaceous limestones of Mexico were folded into lofty mountains.
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Alleyne, glancing round for shelter, saw a thick and lofty holly-bush, so hollowed out beneath that no house could have been drier.
Indeed, these lofty plats of table-land seem to form a peculiar feature in the American continents.
Beyond are seen lofty mountains, uncultivated and uninhabited.
She had also a lofty ideal of the sacredness of the marriage tie.
So lofty is the opening that a sailing boat can pass through with ease.
Now from lofty Mysticism to base Satanism there is but one step.
Clopin Trouillefou, on arriving in front of the lofty portal of Notre-Dame had, in fact, ranged his troops in order of battle.
It rested like a swallow's nest on the lofty edge of the Moabite plateau.
And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.
Catharine, with an eagle eye, watched these indications of a lofty mind.
This lofty rhyme is built up of strophes, anti-strophes, and an epode.
On her left hand she saw a row of lofty windows, set deep in embrasures, and extending over a frontage of more than a hundred fee t in length.
Excalibur's intellect may have been lofty, but his memory was treacherous.
A FEW DECADES ago, mind-reading and precognition were hailed as lofty powers, possessed from birth only by a select psychic elite.
All around were lofty mountains covered with verdure and glory.
Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls.
Meantime, raising my eyes, I beheld the glitter of a lofty sky above the Diana's mastheads.
King of Japan, whose lofty jet they say at times assumed the semblance of a snow-white cross against the sky?
On the east the Gilead hills present a lofty, bold sky-line.
But there was no isolated bush, nor modest brushwood, at the bottom of lofty trees.
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The resting-place of the griffon Vulture is always on some lofty spot.
We also advise them to have lofty, napless, steeple-crowned hats.
Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty mansion, and your question will be answered.
Up toward its source we traveled until on the tenth day we came to a little spring far up upon the side of a lofty mountain range.
And if those scholars occasionally knock Washington off his lofty perch as the flawless Father of Our Country, that's OK by Mount Vernon.
This lofty rhetoric, however, narrowly applied to a special stratum of the population and ignored those who were not propertied white males.
We occupied, in this place, the centre of a vast glade surrounded by the lofty foliage of the submarine forest.
Thus he invites us to follow him towards the lofty blue peaks.
The flier passed on above her to disappear beyond a grove of lofty skeel trees that grew within the palace grounds.
Cunningly tied inside the lofty crown was the gift of nur Mahal.
It was a wonderful flower, growing there in the cathedral nave of lofty trees.
The poet ought to traverse, with a rapid flight, the lofty regions of philosophy, without deviating from the narrow way of truth.
The village is situated at the bottom of a valley, bounded by lofty and jagged walls of stratified lava.
Jacky stopped suddenly, and withdrew from the laughters in lofty offence.
It billowed up and up, and rolled in huge clouds about the lofty roof.
It stands in Southgate Street, and has a beautiful and lofty tower.
Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves.
The two continued their way along the crests of a chain of lofty hills.
There is no well-defined timber-line, as on other lofty mountains.
She smiled a lofty, condescending, tantalising smile and left him.
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His lofty figure was as alert and lightsome as it was majestic.
The same father is said, in the lofty woods, to have sung 'Linus!
Then he mounted his lofty box, swung his explosive whip, and away he went again, like a storm.
And now the tone of the speech, instead of being more conciliatory, becomes more lofty and commanding.
He regarded the lofty ridges and the deep gaps with apprehension.
Lifted sashes and lofty ceilings were insufficient to attemper it.
Right life, for me, is life that wends By lowly ways to lofty ends.
Coconut palms, banana trees, and lofty breadfruit trees gave food and sun-shelter.
Sometimes the travellers passed beneath cascades which pitched from such lofty heights that the water fell into the stream like heavy rain.
From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray.
This place affords a very fine view of the lofty Catskill Mountains.
That lofty green eminence and its quaint coronet form quite a striking picture, you may be sure, in the flush of the evening sun.
Chimborazo was long supposed to be the most lofty mountain on the globe.
It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge baulks of age-blackened oak.
In came a fiddler with a music-book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.

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