Probably it was all right to go ahead, and take the High Hurdle, but the Percentage was against the Candidate, and the Cost of Living was never so altitudinous.
"Ade's Fables"
George Ade
You would not risk your neck to read My much too altitudinous screed, And I, chagrined and half-perplexed, Had missed you when I missed my text- Get Next.
"Impertinent Poems"
Edmund Vance Cooke
That altitudinous figure still dominates the cloudy landscapes of the after-dinner orator; but the frigid, academic mind has turned away from it, and looking through the fog of criticism has descried another Washington, not really an American, not amazingly a hero, but a very decent English country gentleman, honorable, courageous, good, shrewd, slow, and above all immensely lucky.
"The Americanism of Washington"
Henry Van Dyke