Meanings of high-sounding names in English

All ate wheat bread, drank from marble troughs, and had high-sounding names.

The people on that river were fond of giving high-sounding names to their houses.

The big, well-cared-for farms got high-sounding names from the roosters-suchas Luckymeadows, Eggberga and Moneyville.

Their presiding officers were called kings, princes, captains, archdeacons, or rejoiced in similar high-sounding names.

But there were high-sounding names in the history of Chelsea besides those of More and Turner.

Some good high-sounding names figured in the list of directors, and the chairman was Captain H. N. Cromie Paget.

His intellect is keen, but his nature is coarse, and so he glorifies his selfish lusts under high-sounding names.

Hereabouts we do not give them such high-sounding names as you apply to them, we call them hashes or stews.

It's because they are so big and grand themselves, that it did not seem to me they needed high-sounding names.

You know, Philip, that Latin is still the language spoken in that country; and that will account for our high-sounding names.

To persons not initiated in the rudiments of astronomical science, they rest upon the great and high-sounding names of Galileo, Kepler, Halley and Newton.

Legions of irregulars with high-sounding names "Avengers of Defeat," "Citizens of the Tomb," "Brethren in Death"-passedin their turn, looking like banditti.

High-sounding names were there-muchintellect and beauty; all were assembled to do honour to the coiffeur from the banks of the Garonne.