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High-souled

High-souled \High"-souled`\, a. Having a high or noble spirit; honorable.
--E. Everett.

Usage examples of "high-souled".

Age has more charity for these incomplete yet high-souled characters, whose worst real vice is timidity, and who are ultimately punished by general ridicule for their intellectual sins -- sins like Ptolemaism, Calvinism, anti-Darwinism, anti-Nietzscheism, and every sort of Sabbatarianism and sumptuary legislation.

To try and dissuade this young fanatic from all her high-souled foolishness was an attempt foredoomed to failure.

Rosemary, on the other hand, felt for the moment almost ashamed of her robust health, her virile brain, the contentment-if not happiness-in life which was her portion since she had married Jasper, and her compassionate heart longed for the power to comfort and to help this gentle, high-souled girl who looked at her with Peter Blakeney's eyes, and whose lips when she smiled were so like his.

Here AEneas saw the founders of the Trojan state, high-souled heroes who lived in happier times.

On foot, alone, undaunted, high-souled, with but a simple sword, and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fiercest lions that Africa's forests ever bred!