Crossword-Solution: TOPLOFTY 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Phillips, you’ll go; and you, too, eh, Bradley?” Thaddeus was evidently much upset again; for, instead of the whitebait he and Bessie had decided upon for their fish course, the butler had entered, bearing in a toplofty fashion a huge silver platter, upon which lay a superb salmon, beautifully cooked and garnished.

There he proceeded, in a sincere but somewhat toplofty way to enlighten the British public on the subject of culture.

Yes, this man was peculiarly dear to her: she could not bear to have him murdered when in equity he deserved only to have his jaws boxed for his toplofty nonsense about her; and, after all, she did not much mind humoring him in his foolishness.

Flint!--why, I'm sure he wouldn't have noticed me any more than he noticed any other girl--which is, not at all; he being a toplofty and serious Personage addicted to people who do things and write things, particularly things about things that crawl and fly.

Not outwardly, of course, but inwardly, for I'm pretty toplofty about being treated right, and I flare out and say things I shouldn't at times, and afterward I am so ashamed of myself that a worm of the dust is a perky animal to me for a few minutes.