I'm not rich; I've no rank; and, moreover, I'm not at all his match in years! -- See what a dandy he has become since he has been staying in Petersburg again! What a carriage! What a quantity of luggage! And such a haughty manservant too!" . These words were pronounced with an ironical smile. "Tell me," he continued, turning to me, "what do you think of it? Come, what the devil is he off to Persia for now?英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
``I can get along without that light, Buck,'' I said, and I must have been rather haughty and abrupt, for a stifled shriek came from under the bedclothes in the corner and Buck disappeared swiftly. Preparations for bed are simple in the mountains--they were primitively simple for me that night. Being in knickerbockers, I merely took off my coat and shoes. Presently somebody else stepped into the room and the bed in the other corner creaked. Silence for a while. Then the door opened, and the head of the old woman was thrust in.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"But she has never deigned to forgive him," 'twas also said. "She is too haughty and of too high a temper to forgive easily that a man should seem to desert her for another woman's favour. Even when 'twas whispered that she favoured him, she was disdainful, and sometimes flouted him bitterly, as was her way with all men. She was never gentle, and had always a cutting wit. She will use him hardly before she relents; but if he sues patiently enough with such grace as he uses with other women, love will conquer her at last, for 'twas her first."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
"There is something very disagreeable in seeing that sort of thing in a child of her age," said Miss Minchin, with haughty vagueness.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
Go back, haughty Southron! Go back! for thy gold Is red with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold!"英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
That sort of thing belongs rather to the Palmerston days than to these; belongs to days that were nearer in spirit to the Waterloo of 1815, which a haughty England won, than to the Waterloo of 1914-18, which a humbler England so nearly lost.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
There's a...haughty, condescending attitude flowing from the quant side.美剧 · 《Billions》