"Uppish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the other girls had a bad time with me. I was very uppish and British, and insisted on getting my own way. Did you have a ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... I, impatiently; and, too much chagrined to bear with any more of his remarks, I ran up stairs; but I heard him say to M. Du Bois, "Miss is so uppish this morning, that I think I had better not speak ...
— Evelina • Fanny Burney
... rest will go to the Government." Upon that the disillusioned suitor would fly out upon the new order of things brought about by the inquiry into illicit fees, and curse both the tchinovniks and their uppish, insolent behaviour. "Once upon a time," would the suitor lament, "one DID know what to do. Once one had tipped the Director a bank-note, one's affair was, so to speak, in the hat. But now one has to pay a rouble per copyist after waiting a week because otherwise it was impossible ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... of thing don't make the people any happier," pursued Mr. Stackpole; "only serves to give them uppish and dissatisfied longings ...
— Queechy, Volume II • Elizabeth Wetherell
... with a large brood of children and it had been a long time before she could number one friend among her neighbors. The chief complaint entered against her was that she was not sociable, and if you were not sociable at Mulberry Court it meant you were lofty, uppish, considered yourself better than other folks. What it really meant, however, was that you did not hang out of your window and chatter to the inhabitant of the opposite tenement; or loiter in the doorway or on the sidewalk to gossip with the women who lived ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
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