Victor heard him, and put up his eyeglass in amazement; but he, in his turn, had only a shirt on, and the hauteur was a failure. From Wordnik.com. [Comedies of Courtship] Reference
That "hauteur," however, has proved beneficial for the institution he has directed for almost a third of a century. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the Met's Director] Reference
The Archbishop looked at him with extreme hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
Hadria stood before them, in an attitude of hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
There is perhaps a suspicion of hauteur in her tone. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Rebel A Novel] Reference
It was a hard, cold look of the most imperious hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Hargrave, with a little hauteur condescends to do the same. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Then aloud he demanded, with hauteur: "Who do you wish to see, lady?". From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
There was just a touch of hauteur as he said: "We'll see 'Hot Seat'.". From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
De ce côté-là, le résultat n'est pas à la hauteur de mes espérances. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
"Do I owe you any account of my conduct?" asked Marsa, with crushing hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Her lip curled not with hauteur, nor was her brow raised one shadow the more. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
The QUEEN catches the look of hauteur and hatred that is exchanged between them. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
"I would thank you to explain your language," said the young man with great hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune] Reference
"'Going to have the honor' of taking me in to dinner, you mean!" she said, with mock hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
On their heels hastened the Apúkhtin, who played the few seconds of farce with angry hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
"Oh I'm immune I suppose," and she smiled with her handsome face turning up in becoming hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
But her companion was not influenced and indeed paid no attention to the younger girl's hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army] Reference
There was a touch of hauteur in his tone when he replied, "Do you suggest that I am hiding him?". From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
She was so delighted with this that the distance and hauteur with which she had lately treated Sir. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover] Reference
Their hauteur and reserve insured desired social entrée, while hedging against impertinent curiosity. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
I repelled some advances she made me with a hauteur and coldness that it mortified me afterward to remember. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
"The man who was hurt first," she asked abruptly, with a touch of her old hauteur in her voice, "is he dead?". From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
His pomposity was on the surface, and his stiffness and hauteur were but the mannerisms with which some men are cursed. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"I can readily believe it," answered Blanch with a contemptuous laugh and hauteur of manner that were almost insulting. From Wordnik.com. [When Dreams Come True] Reference
"It is true I wrote you," she continued with a hauteur which would have reduced a less buoyant nature to instant dumbness. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
In fact, for all his perfectionist hauteur, there is something else to know about Bill Bradley: he loves to win, and is used to it. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley’S Shot] Reference
The exclusive spirit of the old aristocracy, with its hauteur and its lofty patronage, found itself face to face with fresh ideals. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Mademoiselle was quick to see my embarrassment, and I suppose her pride was touched, for when she spoke it was with her old hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
At the same time, detecting in her manner what impressed him as a slightly Bostonian attitude of mental hauteur, Smith remained wary. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Her manner changed instantly; rising with all her accustomed hauteur and turning from him with a gesture of dismissal, she replied. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
And speaking of critics, Peter O'Toole, dripping effete hauteur, delights in the role of Anton Ego, the most feared food critic in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Pixar's Latest: C'est Winner! Say What?] Reference
The young man's face was fired with that spirit which ever lay so near the surface and he looked at his whilom host with a mighty hauteur. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
And it had come to a point at last where even the hauteur of her class would no longer suffice to cover the humiliations of her daily life. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
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