Lofty

//ˈlɒfti//

"Lofty" in a Sentence (16 examples)

That's to me like a flower on lofty heights.

The world loves to blacken the radiant and to pull the lofty into the dust.

This mountain isn't a lofty one.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

We have lofty expectations.

My goals are lofty.

Here and there were lofty vines, thickly laden with clusters and climbing up the pear and apple trees, whose own fruit ripened beside the black grapes.

Yea, and more, / in war enduring, ere he built a home, / and his loved household-deities brought o'er / to Latium, whence the Latin people come, / whence rose the Alban sires, and walls of lofty Rome.

All hushed intent, when from his lofty seat / Troy's sire began:

"Then, but for folly or Fate's adverse power, / his word had made us with our trusty glaive / lay bare the Argive ambush, and this hour / should Ilion stand, and thou, O Priam's lofty tower!"

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The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.

When the night was half spent, I rose and walked on, till the day broke in all its beauty and the sun rose over the heads of the lofty hills and athwart the low gravelly plains.

a lofty goal

A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.

that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers

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