What is "haughtily"

Usage examples of "haughtily".

In his delight he would fain have embraced Gudrun, who, however, haughtily bade him refrain from saluting a mere washerwoman.

While my papers were being handed round I saw expressed on every face surprise and indignation, but the superintendent replied haughtily that he was at Amiens to administer justice, and that I could not leave the town unless I paid the fine or gave surety.

He saw the figure of Krane, standing haughtily in the bank of yellow, and he gathered the blue to himself in a coruscating ball.

The woman was peering haughtily up at the ceiling through her lorgnette and pince-nez, as if the driver could see her disdain through the walls of the coach.

Adele was seldom sent for to his presence, and all my acquaintance with him was confined to an occasional rencontre in the hall, on the stairs, or in the gallery, when he would sometimes pass me haughtily and coldly, just acknowledging my presence by a distant nod or a cool glance, and sometimes bow and smile with gentlemanlike affability.

Swithe would stare at him and he would throw back his head, gaze at Swithe haughtily and then go back to his reading, never turning the page.

Reidel knew only that she was one of the aristocratic caste of telepaths from Vialles, and even in the crowded society of the spaceship, the Viallan telepaths held themselves haughtily aloof from the rest.

Like many another misprized soul, he had often yearned to dive haughtily into the void, and abandon there the secrets of his own life.

When the doctor gripped his arm again, Ratty looked haughtily at him, pulled free, and then was gone through the doors.

Seized with mortal dread, Theos gazed helplessly at his reckless, beautiful poet friend, who with head erect and visage white as a waning moon, haughtily confronted his Sovereign and audaciously asserted his right to be heard, even in the Holy place of worship!

Grim brown towers, haughtily crenellated, scowled defiance on the unappearing foe.

Twice before, Marcus had offered to purchase the lands outright, and twice before, Melton had haughtily sent him on his way.

Dagobert haughtily accepted this and our horses were taken and we went to the church on foot, where Frau Graben and Liesel were already waiting.

The fifth was a mature woman, about thirty he guessed, who regarded him frankly, even haughtily.

Achmed, who was sulking, had haughtily withdrawn himself, so the rest of them pooled their memories and guidebooks, and found that the tablet was a copy of the cuneiform alphabet of Ras Shamra, one of the oldest alphabets in the world.