"Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hoity-toity, child!" exclaimed old Mr. King, holding her closely. "Well, what have we here?"—as Polly led Rag up ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... are too clever a man to attempt the hoity-toity manner with me! You undoubtedly read all of Huntingdon's speeches with care, and you observed that his entire plea was for the states to allow the Federal Government to proceed in its normal function ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... "Hoity-toity," returned my aunt, who had by then succeeded in getting her head-gear safe within; "the fashion, yes until a ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... "Hoity-toity!" laughed Thure. "I reckon God knew what He was about when He made you 'just girls'—just sisters, sweethearts, wives, mothers, the dearest words spoken in every language the world over; and, for one, I am powerful glad that He ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil
... "Hoity-toity!" cried Jake, stepping back; "that's a handsome squaw when she's mad! Say, boys, let's leave her some of the meat. She wasn't to blame; of course, she believes what her ...
— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson
... "Hoity-toity!" Lady Amesbury exclaimed. "That's the real divorce-court tone. There was a young man—-I don't know how many years ago—who used to talk like that to me at the time Amesbury was Ambassador at Madrid and took up with that Lola de Mendoza ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... wasn't to trouble about that: he'd do well enough." He did not actually thank her for her preparations to make him comfortable, but discovered with a kind of indignant surprise that he had come very near to it. Somehow this woman, whom he had expected to find an ignorant fisher-wench, hoity-toity and brazen or tearful and sullen, was making him painfully conscious of his own boorishness. Out she must go, of course, after the funeral; but he wished he had seen a little more of good company in the past, and he kept up his temper by reminding himself that he had been ill-used ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... "Hoity-toity!" shouted a loud voice, and I saw a great, tall, ugly woman bearing down upon me from the doorway. "Out of my way," she thundered at a waiter. The man gasped ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... name for coarseness; but Lady Dunborough's tongue was known in town. 'Ay, that smartens you, does it? 'she continued with cruel delight; for the girl had winced as from a blow. 'But here comes the landlord, and now out you go. Ay, into the streets, mistress! Hoity-toity, that dirt like you should sit at tables! ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... a hoity-toity sort o' voice, "me and the mate is going as far as Aldgate for a breath o' fresh air. ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... 'Hoity-toity!' exclaimed Mrs Pipchin, shaking out her black bombazeen skirts, and plucking up all the ogress within her. 'If she don't like it, Mr Dombey, she must be taught to lump it.' The good lady apologised immediately afterwards for using so common a figure of speech, but said (and truly) ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... they might establish a system of jurisprudence for the world under which it would be lawful to rob and murder by the rule of the strong right hand, but criminal to reduce millions to wretchedness by subtle and cunning arts; and, hoity-toity, the prisons would change their tenants, and the brutal plunderers of the few would give place to the cultured spoilers of ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... GORG. (Alone). Hoity-toity! Methinks they go away dissatisfied. What can be the meaning of this? I must find it out. ...
— The Pretentious Young Ladies • Moliere
... "Hoity-toity! What's that? She too! so she's on your black books, is she? Oho! hurry up and make another acquaintance, or else, bon Dieu de Dieu! we shall have ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... "Why, hoity-toity!" said the old gentleman "what's all this? what's the matter? don't you like it? I thought I was doing the very thing that would please ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell
... seemed suddenly to have disappeared, so he asked for the chance to wash and shave; and half an hour later he came down all slicked up and spruce, with a very visible intention of paying court to the lady of the house. Irish, you see,—white hairs no obstacle. I could not help laughing. "Hoity-toity," I said to myself, "I am getting all kinds of impressions of ...
— A Hilltop on the Marne • Mildred Aldrich
... A few hoity-toity persons of course felt outraged, and would have ordered their carriages had there been any one to order them from. The honest Raffles was, to tell the truth, secretly busy, on a signal from Tom, preparing for the banquet in the dining-room, ...
— Roger Ingleton, Minor • Talbot Baines Reed
... "Hoity-toity! I've never known you to look like that before. A little dash of red sets your cheeks off—" But Genevra threw up her hands in despair and started toward the stairway, her chin tilted high. Lady Agnes, laughing softly, followed. "It's too bad she's down to marry ...
— The Man From Brodney's • George Barr McCutcheon |
