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  • Other modern objectors have said that such female veneration puts women on a loftly pedestal, addresses them in unrealistic terms, and cements their limited role in society.

    The Death of Chivalry Carolingian 2007

  • Other modern objectors have said that such female veneration puts women on a loftly pedestal, addresses them in unrealistic terms, and cements their limited role in society.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Carolingian 2007

  • The flames roared high and fiercely, blackening the prison – wall, and twining up its loftly front like burning serpents.

    Barnaby Rudge 2007

  • Sometimes, this means pushing upwards towards some loftly goal.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Sometimes, this means pushing upwards towards some loftly goal.

    duel vision Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Ooooo can you see me blush in embarassment at such loftly compliments?

    Hic...hic...Happy Birthday, dears- Chocolate Rum Apricot Cake 2006

  • It was useless for any politician, however loftly, to take a high and mighty tone in a crisis like this.

    The Financier 2004

  • For several minutes the thinking machine remained absolutely still as he listened to that eloquent voice sing of loftly passions with an underlying attitude that was definitely (without being too blunt about it) bawdy.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • "Oh, you needn't get so mighty high and loftly!" sneered Ham Spink.

    Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters Ralph Bonehill

  • Some are aloft, and watching with eager eyes to catch the first glimpse of a sail on the distant horizon; and this he must do from his loftly outlook before the officer of the deck or quartermaster espies one, as they sweep the sky with their long-reaching glasses -- else he may suffer reprimand and prison fare.

    Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

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