Crossword-Solution: HIFALUTIN 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Then the old fool judge said that 'as you appeared to be a lawyer, a man of mature years, and a friend of the family, you were an eminently fit person, and ought to be communicated with'--you know his hifalutin' style.

This ducat robber drew forth a roll of parchment, and began reading, in lachrymose tones, a select litany of defunct gentlemen, with hifalutin titles who had departed this life during the present week.

Haven't I lost a lot of horses?" Lewis interposed, impatiently: "Say! Suppose Adolfo tells what he knows about them horses? Suppose he tells how you framed it to have your own stock run across, on shares, so's you could get more money to go hifalutin' around San Antone without your wife knowing it? I reckon you wouldn't care to have that get out." "You can't prove it," growled "Young Ed." "Oh! I reckon it can be proved all right," confidently asserted Lewis.

What he would profit by most as a preliminary, is training in the habit of expressing himself well and clearly in English; training in mathematics and the elements of physical science; in French and German, so as to read those languages easily--especially German; in drawing--not for hifalutin art, of which he will probably have enough in the blood--but accurate dry reproduction of form--one of the best disciplines of the powers of observation extant.

Dunlap was by no means useless; for he invented hifalutin names for the camps, and generally succeeded in proposing a name that was, as his companions agreed, “no slouch.” There was no real organization, nobody obeyed orders, there was never a battle.