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And a good bit older, too, if you must know it, though of course she did not look so with her almost too blonde hair coiffed elaborately under the wicked wings of her impertinent toque and her pleasure-loving chin nestled in her white furs.
Nokes was a big fellow, with a broad, solid face, which would not have condemned him among physiognomists but for a bad eye, which could not look you in the face. He had been a boundary rider for Heathcote, and on an occasion had been impertinent, refusing to leave the yard behind the house unless something was done which those about the place refused to do for him.
Foreigners would be right in maintaining the assertion that the French soldier is frivolous, presumptuous, impertinent, and immoral, if they formed their judgment alone from these officers by courtesy, who, in place of study and faithful service, had often no other title to their rank than the merit of having emigrated.
Now her maid and my man come along with the luggage in the heavy car, and we take the little racer. Jolly hard work they have to keep anywhere near us, I can tell you. Say, may I make a rather impertinent remark, Sir Henry?" "You have earned the right to say anything to me you choose," Hunterleys replied. "Go ahead." "Why, it's only this," Richard continued, a little awkwardly.
"The prisoner is impertinent! Make him bow!" At once several sprang behind Dick and forced him to move his head up and down. "Let up, my head isn't on a hinge!" he cried. "Cut it short, for I'm sleepy." "Make him drink the poison and at once!" put in another of the masked cadets.
Owning, further, that the recurrence of these idiotic speculations, feelings, questions, wrote him down as both dull fellow and impertinent, he was unabled to restore Aminta to the queenly place she took above the schoolmaster, who was very soon laughing at his fever or flash of the afternoon. The day had brought a great surprise, nothing more.
I knew, too, that his apartment was narrow and ill-ventilated. But I need not vex you with impertinent details. I need not describe the easy artifices by which I substituted, in his bed-room candle-stand, a wax-light of my own making for the one which I there found. The next morning he was discovered dead in his bed, and the Coroner's verdict was "Death by the visitation of God."
I don't know when I have felt so thoroughly satisfied with said Ellis Carleton of whom I am overfond of speaking I even mimicked the meadow-larks, until they watched me with heads tilted, not knowing what to make of such an impertinent fellow.
Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn. But if you will listen to his letter, you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself." "No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could he not keep on quarreling with you, as his father did before him?"
"Gilbert isn't like me," she continued. "He says to himself, 'I must have this thing exactly in this way. If I can't have it exactly in this way, then I won't have it at all! and it's so silly of him to behave like that!" Henry looked up at her in a puzzled fashion. "What is it he wants?... I beg your pardon, I'm being impertinent!" "Oh, no!" she replied, smiling graciously at him.
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