Meaning of high-stomached | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a lofty spirit; haughty.

archaic

Examples

“Then call⟳ them to our preſence face⟳ to face⟳, / And frowning brow to brow, our ſelues will heare / Th’accuſer, and the accuſed, freely ſpeake; / High ſtomack'd are they both, and full of ire, / In rage, deafe as the ſea; haſtie as fire.”

“They, a chosen people, a vessel of Him they call⟳ Jehovah, ay, and a vessel of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth, and a vessel of the gods of the Egyptians—a high-stomached people, greedy of aught that brought them wealth and power.”

“Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay⟳ in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut⟳ in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness”

“Then it was the men became high-stomached, and revived ancient quarrels, and crossed the divides to the south to kill⟳ the Pellys, and to the west that they might sit⟳ by the dead fires of the Tananas.”

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