Potential Titles: Haughty

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A haughty heart and guilty brain - Benjamin West Ball "Monody of the Countess of Nettlestede"

Nature's mute and haughty horror - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

Never bowed his haughty crest - Frances E.W. Harper "Truth"

And mocked the strength of Babylon's haughty wall - "The Lesson of War" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.1, Jan. 1862]

A haughty old copper-bound albatross - John Masefield "Sea-Change"

When the haughty Cleopatra sailed to meet her Roman Mars - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

Since haughty Babel's prime - John Henry Newman "England"

The haughty, chiding flood - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "To S. C."

Who haughtiest look of pride assumes - "The Peacock" Chatterbox: Stories of Natural History. 1880]

To curb each haughty mad emotion - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]

Beneath the haughtiest of suns - Alice Wellington Rollins "October"

Startled the haughty stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

And haughty in their music - George Sterling "Night in Heaven"

Haughty acolytes of heavenly sorrows - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta IV: Statues"

Shall disown Time's haughtiest lieges - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta XLIV: The Conquest of Immortality"

When haughty expectations prostrate lie - William Wordsworth "On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm"


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