Usa "hauteur" in una frase

1. Jack was taken aback by the hauteur of her remark but tried not to show it

2. hauteur suffered a wobble as she struggled against the

3. "We have a wise ordinance in our Salique laws, which says, 'The crown of France shall never degrade the lance to the distaff'," said Montcalm, dryly, and with a little hauteur; but instantly adding, with his former frank and easy air: "as all the nobler qualities are hereditary, I can easily credit you; though, as I said before, courage has its limits, and humanity must not be forgotten

4. There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep

5. Despite her hauteur, she was forced to engage with him

6. "No, thank you," said Lydgate, with some hauteur

7. He arose with a jaunty attempt at hauteur, and fell down the steps

8. She aimed for hauteur, managed to avoid a terrified squeak

9. But that wasn’t true, either; it was just the way he held his face, in a frozen grimace of hauteur as he manufactured his diatribes

10. I never seemed in his way; he did not take fits of chilling hauteur: when he met me unexpectedly, the encounter seemed welcome; he had always a word and sometimes a smile for me: when summoned by formal invitation to his presence, I was honoured by a cordiality of reception that made me feel I really possessed the power to amuse him, and that these evening conferences were sought as much for his pleasure as for my benefit

11. 15 21 vous apparaissait d'une hauteur! 'was a wonderful thing indeed!' Vous is the common ethical dative, to be omitted in translation, cf

12. the Shakespearean "Knock me that door!" and "There's perfection for you!' "--D'une hauteur! suppression for emphasis far more frequent in French than in English, cf

13. 30 17, 49 25 Note the play on the words haut, Hauteur 14 5 n'entendait

14. Towards every one, excepting the children, whom he treated with almost reverent tenderness, he adopted an attitude of distant hauteur