The Collaborative International Dictionary
High-stomached
High-stomached \High"-stom`ached\, a.
Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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high-stomached
a. (context obsolete English) Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
Usage examples of "high-stomached".
But it is one thing for husbands of the Bellamy stamp to form high-stomached resolutions, and another for them to put those resolutions into active and visible operation on wives of the Mrs.
Besides, the art of burning to bedrock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with overeating and enforced idleness, and became as irritable as do the bees in the fall of the year when the hives are overstocked with honey.