highsounding

All highsounding organizations that all good Americans should be proud to belong to.

The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

First, they question the contents of those highsounding words: honour, freedom, justice.

Peoples and Nations in a Changing World 1961

Vers libre was in vogue, and tons of souped-up prose and other dribble poured from young free-verse artists who were suddenly experiencing a gorgeous release in the disorderly highsounding tangle of non-metrical lines.

Introduction Elwyn Brooks 1950

Herr Knapf unhappy, and the too fashionable silk umbrella that was to appall Frau Knapf, and ascended the little platform at the end of the dining room, and began to speak in what I fondly thought to be fluent and highsounding German.

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

For this is his wont, when necessity constraineth him to say any highsounding thing,

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

Page 76 v. So-liç-it, to urge to desire a. So-no-roous, loud or highsounding a. Spe-çif-ic, peculiar to itself

The Scholar's Spelling Assistant; Wherein the Words Are Arranged on an Improved Plan, According to Their Respective Principles of Accentuation. In a Manner Calculated to Familiarize the Art of Spelling and Pronunciation, to Remove Difficulties, and to Facilitate General Improvement Intended for the Use of Schools and Private Tuition 1861