high-and-mightiness

“Because I, for one, am sick of your high-and-mightiness.”

CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

In fact, one of the first topics I wrote about when I started my 'blog was a Christmas Day letter to the editor inviting liberal dissenters to quickly utilize the interstate to depart the author's secure bastion of high-and-mightiness.

once again i remind you 2005

“Because I, for one, am sick of your high-and-mightiness.”

CONFESSIONS KATE BRIAN 2007

He never came in to see Axel now that Barbro was gone, but went straight by — a piece of high-and-mightiness ill fitted to his state, seeing that he was still living on at Breidablik and had not moved.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

This evening, too, he was all high-and-mightiness, not to be outdone by anybody.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

This evening, too, he was all high-and-mightiness, not to be outdone by anybody.

Wanderers Knut Hamsun 1905

At the first reply or two to his letters he frowned; at the second or two he smiled in the way any elderly gentleman may smile when he finds himself recognized by high-and-mightiness as a person of importance.

The Rough Road William John Locke 1896

If I might have described just _one_ of your days to his high-and-mightiness!

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

If I might have described just _one_ of your days to his high-and-mightiness!

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

Well, and how goes her little high-and-mightiness?

Girls of the Forest L. T. Meade 1884