How To Use Loftily In A Sentence
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The king of the said land of Iaua hath a most braue and sumptuous pallace, the most loftily built, that euer I saw any, and it hath most high greeses and stayers to ascend vp to the roomes therein contained, one stayre being of siluer, and another of gold, throughout the whole building.
The Journal of Friar Odoric
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The gale rose again after sunrise, and when, after doing sixty miles in fourteen hours, we reached the heads of Hakodate Harbour, it was blowing and pouring like a bad day in Argyllshire, the spin-drift was driving over the bay, the Yezo mountains loomed darkly and loftily through rain and mist, and wind and thunder, and
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.
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While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured.
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'A dook, in course, 'said Grattles loftily;' but we don't, in consequence of 'er Nibs bein' mixed up with the old man's mother, reweal the family skeletons to low piemen, 'then, with a fresh grimace, he darted along the street as quickly as his bandy legs could carry him.
Madame Midas
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Interviewees have thus been treated to loftily dismissive asides, barely stifled yawns and muffled harrumphs.
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she bore herself loftily
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‘When I dispraise,’ he says loftily, ‘I am usually quoting cliches.’
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To which a cardinal mildly remarking, "_Domine, schisma est generis neutrius_ (schisma is neuter, your Majesty)," Sigismund loftily replies: "_Ego sum Rex Romanus et super grammaticam_ (I am King of the Romans, and above Grammar)!
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
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I wouldn't bemean myself," countered Horace loftily, and didn't.
Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life
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In a fanciful mood, one might imagine a tenth circle of the Inferno, wherein those stern grey arches should loftily rise, in blind and endless sequence, limbing an abode of horror, a place of punishment for those, empty-hearted, who had lived without colour and sunshine, in voluntary abnegation, caring only for gain and success.
The Daughters of Danaus
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Our fear is based on ignorance, they loftily believe, and can be safely dismissed.
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When Brown speaks loftily of his moral compass, of wanting unity and social justice and of caring for the poor of the world, he forms and traps a world in his half eaten maulers, which he then avariciously crushes to his chest in one of the best sign language renditions of 'mine, all mine!'
If you can keep your head .....
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Yon whelp I skelpit the day was naething but an Irishman," he cried loftily.
St. Cuthbert's
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He has at last loftily declared his extremely qualified support for Charlie - providing the laddie bucks up.
