ride the high horse

Example Sentences

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Look here, Mrs. Burrill number one, don't you take advantage of your position, and ride the high horse too free.

From The Diamond Coterie by Lynch, Lawrence L.

Is it to have, with endless jargoning, debating, motioning and counter-motioning, a settlement effected between the Honorable Mr. This and the Honorable Mr. That, as to their respective pretensions to ride the high horse?

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

I thought you would ride the high horse to the end of the journey; I didn't think your steed would land you in the gutter.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

You're a fine one to ride the high horse with me!

From The Imaginary Marriage by Cooper, Henry St. John

Highty-tighty! so we're going to ride the high horse, eh?

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce