A high-toned restaurant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He writes for a high-toned literary review. From Dictionary.com.
"Chassagne and Meursault are softer, less high-toned.". From Wordnik.com. [The Grace Kelly of Wines] Reference
Seems like you be too high-toned fur this sorter work. From Wordnik.com. [Dick the Bank Boy Or, A Missing Fortune] Reference
Once there came an oldish, high-toned lady from Richmond. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The drama is at present a particularly high-toned subject. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Those high-toned sentiments were received with loud cheers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
It may be truthfully said that the high-toned principles of. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference
These irritating proceedings made this body still more high-toned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Clarke's biography is a weird mix of deep dish and high-toned prose. From Wordnik.com. [Wrong End Of The Rainbow] Reference
He was a high-toned gentleman, and his whole heart was in the enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Surely then, these three high-toned financiers still had the game in their own hands. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
You're real high-toned and ever so improving, and that's better than tickling; every time. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891] Reference
A high-toned temper for Royal prerogatives on his part, and an indomitable resistance of the. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer] Reference
How little could Clotilde have intended that I should suffer thus for her high-toned delicacy!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
But the bells never ceased; some were deep-toned and some high-toned; voices were intermixed with them. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
We were not "high-toned" people; quite the reverse, in fact, as, I believe, I have previously described. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 1] Reference
No man is to blame for setting his face like a flint against old-fashioned Roman Catholicism, and high-toned. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880] Reference
LINCOLN B. SWEZEY was a high-toned and inquiring American citizen, who came over to study our Institootions. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 14, 1893] Reference
She died at last and he gave her a high-toned funeral; had a coffin from the city and a preacher and all that. From Wordnik.com. [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference
Châteaubriand, -- with the high-toned Montmorencys for her friends, and the simple-minded Ballanche for her slave. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
His religious feelings were such as might be expected from his well-spent life, -- pure, benevolent, and high-toned. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
With the limitations named, it is a sublime outlook upon life and a high-toned morality which the Psalter discloses. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Both were graduates of medical colleges -- well educated, cultured, and both high-toned gentlemen of the "Old School.". From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
Zillah already had understood and appreciated the delicate feeling and high-toned generosity of Obed Chute and his sister. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
He was a high-toned, honorable gentleman, very neat and exact in his personal appearance, but entirely free from pretension. From Wordnik.com. [A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren] Reference
The sound of a string band drifted down to him, and then laughter -- cultured, high-toned laughter that grated on his nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
"Goodness," said Amy happily, "I suppose when he gets home he will be altogether too high-toned to notice common folk like us.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge Or, the hermit of Moonlight falls] Reference
A few curmudgeons consider her work "The Bridges of Madison County" on canvas: high-toned at first glance, sentimental at bottom. From Wordnik.com. [GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS] Reference
His character was so high-toned, and even so punctilious in its regard to nice points of honor, that he was not even worldly wise. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The making of programmes has in many cases been influenced by the fact that some subjects are considered more "high-toned" than others. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
Emerson, a preacher in revolt against the old theology, as one of its leaders; high-toned men, whose minds revolted alike against the old. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
The family circle can be instructed and impressed by high-toned moral and religious lessons in no better way during a leisure hour of the. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference
The Virginians were the cavaliers of the South, high-toned, high-bred, each individual soldier inspired by that lofty idea of loyalty of the cavalier. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
While his high-toned manners opened the way to favor, his nervous logic followed up the advantage so gracefully won, and drove home his purpose to its end. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
I wonder how many fathers have recently inculcated these and similar high-toned principles on their little boys, only to meet with the same uninterested acquiescence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
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