Adjective : the high-sounding titles of minor officials. From Dictionary.com.
Retreat behind the high-sounding words "justice and law". From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
To "help humanity" is a very attractive and high-sounding term. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Very high-sounding title-slips are being prepared for my speeches!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
Paradise Park, The Bowery, New York, is a very high-sounding address. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
We are gravely told, in well-rounded and high-sounding sentences, that. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
It was certainly very nice to be addressed by so high-sounding a title. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
They would not have called native chiefs by such high-sounding titles as. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Germans and by enrolling them in the army under the high-sounding title of. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Bubble-characters have burst, and high-sounding phrases have been exploded. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter high-sounding words. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
They all call themselves Portuguese, and own high-sounding Portuguese surnames. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
My nephew's children named them, which accounts for their high-sounding titles. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
One reads on the walls, to be sure, such high-sounding old names as Vassall and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
"Mounted Ranger," according to General Walker's rather high-sounding classification. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
Saratoga Springs, New York, and the springs bearing this high-sounding name in the Amargosa sink. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Law! it do sound odd, "says Sarah, with a little respectful laugh," but high-sounding too, I think. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Perhaps such art as goes into the average magazine article is not likely to merit much high-sounding praise. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
In striking contrast to Hull's high-sounding proclamation, it revealed that general's real attitude of dejection. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
Consisting mainly of German forces, they needed no high-sounding words to give blood in defense of their homeland. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
It is to be hoped it also included other things more substantial than this high-sounding but sparsely covered game. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference
Let the high-sounding names of scores of painted pine palaces not a thousand miles from this metropolis make answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
It is an amusing circumstance in the history of this little spot, that it had once the high-sounding honor of having a. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference
She has not yet been conquered, nor will she be, notwithstanding Napoleon's high-sounding phrases and so-called victories. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
True, the Red Republicans issued high-sounding phrases about liberty, rights of man, and the right of the people to govern. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
My Tour in France has at least taught me one lesson -- never to be deceived by high-sounding names and pompous designations. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Buoyed up by Trix's advice, by Trix's eloquence, she had once more attempted to put the high-sounding theories into practice. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Men of wealth and position -- the bearers of high-sounding titles -- with politicians and place-hunters, fluttered round her. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
Every time I start looking into organizations with high-sounding and impressive names, I am profoundly impressed with the accuracy of. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference
But how was a needy adventurer to raise the money to pay for the fort and to do all the high-sounding things that he had promised the King?. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
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