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I couldn't tell you exactly whether a Spaniard would translate 'Buena' 'fine' or 'good. Knowing their high-falutin' rendition of almost everything else I would take my chance on 'fine. Son, your phrase means 'a fine girl." Donald looked down at the flower in his buttonhole, and then he looked straight at his father.
"Airs are something that I don't waste." "Any high-falutin' stuff would be wasted 'round here," went on Barber. "We're just plain, hard-workin', decent people. And now we'll git down to brass tacks." He passed in front of Mr. Perkins and settled himself heavily in the morris chair. The scoutmaster faced about, found the kitchen chair, and sat. "I'm listening," he said.
Send it on to your aunt Phoebe; sorter make the old folks open their eyes oh? Well, seem' he's been to some expense fittin' up an entrance from the other street, we'll let him slide. But as to that d d old Frenchman Ferrers, in the next loft, with his stuck-up airs and high-falutin style, we must get quit of him; he's regularly gouged me in that ere horsehair spekilation."
What else he could have taken I cannot guess, unless it was a copious stream of high-falutin', and at this period Wagner's own resources of the sort were ample. What he wanted was a plot that would afford him an opportunity of planning a spectacular opera on the largest possible scale, and this he found in Lytton.
Well, maybe Marise's metaphor had something in it, for all it was so flowery and high-falutin. Maybe she would say that what he had done was exactly what she'd described, to dig it under the ground and let it fertilize and enrich his life. Oh Lord! how a figure of speech always wound you up in knots if you tried to use it to say anything definite!
And I can't understand what in the world has caused this! FOMÍNISHNA. Lord! I'm past sixty, and how many weddings I've seen; but I've never seen anything so shameful as this. AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. What do you mean, you murderers; do you want to dishonor the girl? BOLSHÓV. Yes, much I have to listen to your high-falutin' talk.
Her idealism came to show as soon as she spoke. It was a necessity of her nature to be enthusiastic; unfriendly critics said hysterical, but I should prefer to say high-falutin' about everything she enjoyed or admired. She was at her best in misfortune; her great vanity gave her a certain proud stoicism which was admirable.
The neighbor answered in a creak meant for a whisper: "I'm right glad she's took to religion for onct, an' is givin' us somethin' about them Crusaders. They was in Palestine, you know. She's been away to boardin' school all winter, an' I guess it'll be a high-falutin' account of the war." The quaint little old lady jerked her head up and down with decisive bobbiness.
"So far, going out to Australia, and looking in at Sydney and Fiji and the islands for cargo, and loading up choke-full with just everything that our skipper counted at the highest freight, with no dead weight to break the brig's back so far, everything went `high-falutin'' as the Yanks say; but when we came to leave Polynesia it ought to be christened Magnesia, I consider, for it contains a bigger continent, with a larger number of islands than Europe and shape a course homewards to the white cliffs of Old Albion, that we longed to see again after our long absence, for we were away good two years in all, the cap'en thinking nothing of time, being his own charterer, so long as he got a good cargo from port to port, and we were engaged on a trading voyage, and not merely out and home again directly then it was that the Cranky Jane came out in her true colours, and made us love her oh yes! just as the skipper did over the left!
They are found at every high-falutin' "function," bending over the white hands of the most accomplished ladies in the land; on every ballroom floor, encircling the waists of debutantes; in the parlors of our best people, paying court to their young daughters.
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