high-stomached love

Definitions

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  • adjective obsolete Having a lofty spirit; haughty.

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  • adjective obsolete Having a lofty spirit; haughty.

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Examples

  • But the high-stomached Norman is there and the stubborn Saxon.

    Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • Unlike the cowardly Melanesians, the people were high-stomached and warlike.

    YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010

  • 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.

    The Men of Forty Mile 2010

  • Then it was the men became high-stomached, and revived ancient quarrels, and crossed the divides to the south to kill the Pellys, and to the west that they might sit by the dead fires of the Tananas.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • 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.

    The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

  • And further, I felt it my duty to prove the white man's wisdom and bring sore distress to Moosu, who had waxed high-stomached, what of the power I had given him.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • Then it was the men became high-stomached, and revived ancient quarrels, and crossed the divides to the south to kill the Pellys, and to the west that they might sit by the dead fires of the Tananas.

    THE LAW OF LIFE 2010

  • And I wonder me here in Folsom, while democracy dreams its enchantments o'er the twentieth century world, whether there, in the rock-hewn crypt of that secret, desert valley, the bones still abide that once were mine and that stiffened my animated body when I was an Aryan master high-stomached to command.

    Chapter 21 2010

  • Moosu, who had waxed high-stomached, what of the power I had given him.

    A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

  • In this deputation were some high-stomached Sheiks, who, taking

    The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

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