He was being enormously toplofty, of course, trying to frighten her.

You know how toplofty and you-be-damned Earthers are, out on the planets."

"From the way he kicks, I venture to think that he will be toplofty and full of his own consequence, like his father!"

"Are you gracious, as a true prince must always be to his inferiors, or are you toplofty and boorish?

The farmer on whose land the barn stood was a toplofty little man whose prosperity was made plain enough by the very fact that he owned several horses.

"How utterly ridiculous you make yourself when you decide to play the part of toplofty aristocrat," she told him, folding her hands in her lap and pressing her lips tightly together.