Sentence Examples

  • Having all his fathers ambition with much of his strength and haughtiness, longed to get away from Germany and to claim these remoter districts.
  • The simplicity of the Czartoryscy was even more mischievous than their haughtiness.
  • The papal letters were translated into Persian, and thence into Mongol, and so presented to Baiju; but the Tatars were greatly irritated by the haughtiness of the Dominicans.
  • He had in fact already summoned a Russian army corps to assist him to reform his country, which sufficiently explains his own haughtiness and the unwonted compliancy of the rival magnates.
  • His chief fault is his overweening haughtiness, due to an over-exalted opinion of his position, which leads him to insult Chryses and Achilles, thereby bringing great disaster upon the Greeks.
 
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