high and mighty

Example Sentences

• "The high and mighty are to be found at the Fairlawn Country Club on pleasant afternoons."
• "Ever since she was placed in the gifted program, she's become so high and mighty that no one wants to be near her."
• "Ponds drew a chair to the table and seated himself and poured Mrs Dibble a gin, saying solemnly, "Now then, Mrs Dibble, what's it all about?" "I'm upholding my rights agen that woman that's been coming the high and mighty over me like I ain't got the right to say a word in me own business.""
• "When Inanna returns she finds that Dumuzi has not been lamenting her but has been acting high and mighty in his seat of kingship."
• "For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of the law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing in the radiant heat of the Strong Man."
• "To the High and Migthie Lords States-Generall at The Haghe. (…) Most High and Mightie Lords, After I had my dispatch from the king of Barbary Muley Sidan, the same day I was to embarke, came to me the alkaid of Saffia with a packet of letters directed to Your High and Mightie Lords, whearin one (as he told me) for the king of Frannce, which he said the King commanded him to deliver unto me with his owne hands, and that I lykewise should deliver them my selfe."