"Highfaluting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... different sorts of fire in the world may be likened unto the different persuasions of Christians in the world. In the first place, we have the Piscapalions, an' they are a high-sailin' and highfalutin' set, and they may be likened unto a turkey buzzard that flies up into the air, and he goes up, and up, and up, till he looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fust thing you know, he cums down, and down, and ...
— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)
... A highfalutin millionaire, you mean. [Chuckling]. Haw! ha ha! really very nearly a pun, that. [He sits down ...
— The Inca of Perusalem • George Bernard Shaw
... Review of Buddhist Texts from Japan, The Nation, No. 875, April 6, 1882. "The Mah[a]y[a]na or Great Vehicle (we might fairly render it 'highfalutin') school.... Filled as these countries (Tibet, China, Japan) are with Buddhist monasteries, and priests, and nominal adherents, and abounding in voluminous translations of the Sanskrit Buddhistic literature, little understood and wellnigh unintelligible ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis |
