Lexicographical Neighbors of Toploftiness
Literary usage of Toploftiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1859)
"... the General's literary style may be called Corinthian- Gothic, combining the
elements of graceful proportion, toploftiness, and branching- out, ..."
2. Parts of Speech: Essays on English by Brander Matthews (1901)
"Something of the toploftiness of the elder rhetoricians yet lingers in the tone
many British writers of to-day see fit to adopt whenever they ..."
3. With Kuroki in Manchuria by Frederick Palmer (1904)
"While he was indulging in such toploftiness over vodka and cigarettes, the little
fellows who fought this morning were smiling, smiling, smiling, ..."
4. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1902)
"There is no such line in history, and the writers whom Mr. Kidd corrects with
such toploftiness of mind have known better than to draw one. ..."
5. The Marching Years by Norman Bridge (1920)
"... toploftiness he may have shown was gone, and he knew there were girls in the
school only by their voices and by the rustle of the clothes of the more ..."
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