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He wrote a few letters in a high-flown, bombastic vein of gratitude; but in practice he suffered no man to intrude upon his self-respect. On the other hand, he never turned his back, even for a moment, on his old associates; and he was always ready to sacrifice an acquaintance to a friend, although the acquaintance were a duke.
To unsettle everything in Ireland, so that anybody might hope to be anything, or to own Heaven knows what to legalise gambling for existence to a people who delight in high play, and yet not involve us in a civil war was a grand policy, Kearney, a very grand policy. Not that I expect a young, ardent spirit like yourself, fresh from college ambitions and high-flown hopes, will take this view.
It will be remembered that there existed at Paris a coterie of fashionable women who pretended to the most exalted refinement both of feeling and expression, and that these were waited upon and worshiped by a set of nobles and litterateurs, who used towards them a peculiar strain of high-flown, pedantic gallantry.
"I think," said M'Kinley, with a comical grin, "you might know that by his high-flown manner of sleeping he snores very politely, and like a gentleman, all out." "Well done, Alick," said the priest, laughing; "go home, boys, it's near bed-time; Paddy, ma bouchal, are the horses ready?" "They'll be at the door in a jiffy, your Reverence," said Paddy going out.
And he endeavoured to convince me that I might lose more than I gained, even though I should get more money by going elsewhere. "It is for you," said he, "to think whether our names on your title-page are not worth more to you than the increased payment." This seemed to me to savour of that high-flown doctrine of the contempt of money which I have never admired. I did think much of Messrs.
The knight treated this intruder's mistake for certainly Christie had no idea that all these epithets which sounded so rich and splendid, were lavished upon a small quarto volume with a stare, and then turning again to Mary Avenel, the only person whom he thought worthy to address, he proceeded in his strain of high-flown oratory, "Even thus," said he, "do hogs contemn the splendour of Oriental pearls; even thus are the delicacies of a choice repast in vain offered to the long-eared grazer of the common, who turneth from them to devour a thistle.
These fifteen hardy souls proudly dubbed themselves the Marion Rangers. No one thought of finding fault with such a name it sounded too well. All were full of notions as high-flown as the name of their company. One of their number, named Dunlap, was ashamed of his name, because it had a plebeian sound to his ear.
"Never," he said firmly, solemnly even, "and I counsel you, Miriam, in turn, to seek your draughts of soul from our pure 'wells of English undefiled, rather than such high-flown fancies and maudlin streams as flow from the pen of this accomplished Hebrew. There is a little too much of the Jeremiah and Isaiah style about such extracts as I have seen, to suit my taste."
"Ay," whispered Lord George to Dashwood, "and let's settle our wager about mademoiselle and my blackamore don't think I'll let you off that." "Off! I'm ready to double the bet, my lord," said Dashwood aloud, and in the same moment turned to mademoiselle with some high-flown compliment about the beauty of her complexion, and the dangers of going without a veil on a hot sunny day. "Well, Mr.
Frau Brandt had sunk back in her chair, and was nodding her white-capped old head again. "Oh, my child, my child," she grieved. "Will you never rid your fancy of these high-flown, unpractical, romantic whimsies? It all comes of reading poetry." She herself, good woman, read little but her prayers. "Oh, my dear true Heart," responded Maria Dolores, laughing.
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