Polly her most "toploftical stare," as the girls called it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

Jim was very toploftical to Miss Lily for several days.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference

It had a head that was a cross between an intelligent antelope and a rather toploftical baby rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kit of Greenacre Farm] Reference

I suppose they're well enough, but their pictures look a little toploftical, and I'm not over fond of that kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half a Dozen Girls] Reference

I was very toploftical, Anthony -- and was prepared to read her a sermon on the duties of a doctor's wife, when all at once I had a vision of myself in that rosebud organdie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory of Youth] Reference

"Yes," said every one of the men, only seeing the old gentleman, "but he's too toploftical to live" -- or something to that effect -- and then they would forget all about it till the companion's opera glasses leveled in the same direction, brought the conversation around to the old topic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Little Peppers Grown Up] Reference

As the voice of the American has retreated from his chest to his throat and nasal passages, so there is danger that his contribution to literature will soon cease to imply any blood or viscera, or healthful carnality, or depth of human and manly affection, and will be the fruit entirely of our toploftical brilliancy and cleverness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

"Fenton, you were almighty toploftical about those railroad shares, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philistines] Reference

"That's about it," Irons assented; "and I think Herman is too toploftical and full of cranky theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philistines] Reference

Don't you get superior and toploftical with the boys when they come, because every last one of them is the right sort, and they're expecting to find Gilead folks waiting for them with open arms from what I've told them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Kit of Greenacre Farm] Reference

Your toploftical pride, I suppose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference

Now her tone was slightly toploftical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen] Reference

"toploftical stare," as the girls called it.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

Weather ") not from two or three influences, however important, nor from any learned syllabus, or criticism, or what ought to be, nor from any minds or advice of toploftical quarters -- and indeed not at all from the influences and ways ostensibly supposed (though they too are adopted, after a sort) -- but slowly, slowly, curiously, from many more and more, deeper mixings and siftings (especially in America) and generations and years and races, and what largely appears to be chance -- but is not chance at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good-Bye my Fancy ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

Literature formates itself (like language, or "the weather") not from two or three influences, however important, nor from any learned syllabus, or criticism, or what ought to be, nor from any minds or advice of toploftical quarters -- and indeed not at all from the influences and ways ostensibly supposed (though they too are adopted, after a sort) -- but slowly, slowly, curiously, from many more and more, deeper mixings and siftings (especially in America) and generations and years and races, and what largely appears to be chance -- but is not chance at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference