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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to high life.
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Examples
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But as every reader, however beggarly himself, is fond of high-lived dialogues, with anecdotes of Lords, Ladies, and Knights of the Garter, I must beg leave to give him the concluding part of the present conversation.
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QUOTATION: They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
Quotations 1919
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The poor Miss Flamboroughs, their former gay companions, were cast off as mean acquaintance, and the whole conversation ran upon high life and high-lived company, with pictures, taste, and Shakespeare.
The Literary World Seventh Reader Hetty Sibyl Browne 1907
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The poor Miss Flamboroughs, their former gay companions, were cast off as mean acquaintance, and the whole conversation ran upon high life and high-lived company, with pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste,
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Susan Tucker, one of the gals, was a high-lived thing, and the calkalation was, to go down about three miles, and the wind was quarterin 'on the larboard side.
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Well, she had attended and cherished me since I was so high-lived with my mother.
The Parisians — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company; with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakspeare, and the musical glasses.
Pelham — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Well, she had attended and cherished me since I was so high-lived with my mother.
The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company; with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakspeare, and the musical glasses.
Pelham — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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