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Struck down with the disease called "Little Irons," he thought he was being torn limb from limb by devils, giants, and lion-headed demons, and he made both in his delirium and after his recovery all kinds of wild charges against Burton, and interlarded his speech with contumelious taunts his chief grievance being Burton's refusal to accept the Victoria Nyanza-Nile theory.
It is commonly said that public bodies are most insulting and contumelious to a good man, when they are puffed up with prosperity and success.
Judge North, on my first trial, plainly told the jury that any denial of the existence of Deity or of Providence was blasphemy; although on my second trial, in order to procure a conviction, he narrowed his definition to "any contumelious or profane scoffing at the Holy Scriptures or the Christian religion." It is evident, therefore, what his lordship believes the law to be.
He begged her to discontinue this sad perusal. He wanted to gather up again the contumelious writings, but Marie Antoinette held his hand back. "I must know every thing, every thing," said she. "Go on bringing me every thing, and do not be hindered by my tears. At this moment the door of the cabinet was dashed open without ceremony, and the Duchess de Polignac entered.
And yet from this window, though open, escape would seem to be impossible, even with much assistance." "If I thought that the contumelious boy had dared to be guilty of such an act of gross impudence," cried the colonel, "I should be tempted to resume my arms, in my old age, to punish his effrontery.
M. Étienne glared at him in speechless wrath. It would have liked him well to bring this contumelious varlet to his knees. But how? It was a byword that Vigo minded no man's ire but the duke's. The King of France could not dash him. Vigo went on: "It seems I have exceeded my duty, monsieur, in coming here.
"What?" he ejaculated. "Yes," said Adrian, blandly. "I think the suggestion is decidedly a happy one. I think I shall pay my court to her." "You? Man, you 're bereft of your senses," said Anthony, with force. "You need n't be so violent," said Adrian. "It's your own idea." "I was making game of you I was pulling your leg. Marry her? She would n't look at you," said Anthony, contumelious.
Tonia sat on the steps of the Espinosa ranch house flicking gloomily with a quirt at a tuft of curly mesquite. She displayed a frown and a contumelious lip, and endeavored to radiate an aura of disagreeableness and tragedy. "I hate railroads," she announced positively. "And men. Men pretend to run them. Can you give any excuse why a trestle should burn?
Friedrich Wilhelm never would or could dismount from his Hobby: but he rode him under much sorrow henceforth; under showers of anger and ridicule; contumelious words and procedures, as it were SAXA ET FAECES, battering round him, to a heavy extent; the rider a victim of Tragedy and Farce both at once.
The soldiers would have slain these praetors in a fury, for their bold language to Sylla; contenting themselves, however, with breaking their rods, and tearing off their purple-edged robes, after much contumelious usage they sent them back, to the sad dejection of the citizens, who beheld their magistrates despoiled of their badges of office, and announcing to them, that things were now manifestly come to a rupture past all cure.
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