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It made her laugh; it appeared to be all so senseless that grown people should occupy themselves with such matters. It struck her, nevertheless, as odd that one of the counsel should cross-question Mr Brand so insistently and so impertinently as to his feelings for Miss Lupton. Nancy knew Miss Lupton of Ringwood very well a jolly girl, who rode a horse with two white fetlocks.
The Chinooks and other Indians at the mouth of the river, soon proved themselves keen traders, and in their early dealings with the Astorians never hesitated to ask three times what they considered the real value of an article. They were inquisitive, also, in the extreme, and impertinently intrusive; and were prone to indulge in scoffing and ridicule at the expense of the strangers.
I turned in my chair, holding it up in my hand. "Is this sufficiently dignified and imperious?" I began to declaim it. "Sir, it has been brought to my notice that the pipes ". I broke off short. "Hullo!" said I, my eyes on the wall, "what has become of the key of Jaffery's flat?" There was the brass-headed nail on which I had hung it, impertinently and nakedly bright.
Bland, after slightly looking at it, said, 'the leg must come off, the sooner the better. The man, perceiving that I pitied him, cast such a beseeching look at me, as made me interpose, impertinently perhaps, but I could not resist it. I forget what I said; but I know the sense of it was, that I thought the poor fellow's leg could and ought to be saved. I remember Dr.
These are often imitated by coxcombs, who have no learning at all; but who have got some names and some scraps of ancient authors by heart, which they improperly and impertinently retail in all companies, in hopes of passing for scholars. If, therefore, you would avoid the accusation of pedantry on one hand, or the suspicion of ignorance on the other, abstain from learned ostentation.
Rolla let the window fall again and looked impertinently at him. "My lord," she said, with a courtesy, "before I open this door you will pay me twenty thousand francs." "Woman, are you mad?" "Bah! you would shout so! I said twenty thousand francs, and I mean it. Here is my hand. Count in the money and I will get the key." "Enough of this foolish talk," cried the vicomte, in a rage.
Wherefore when Daemenetus, another demagogue, had brought the same design about again, and blamed him impertinently to the people for things which he did when he was general, Timoleon answered nothing, but raising up his hands, gave the gods thanks for their return to his frequent prayers, that he might but live to see the Syracusans so free, that they could question whom they pleased.
The very title of imperator, from which we have derived our modern one of emperor, proclaims the nature of the government, and the tenure of that office. It was purely a government by the sword, or permanent stratocracy having a movable head. Never was there a people who inquired so impertinently as the Romans into the domestic conduct of each private citizen.
She expressed her thankfulness that the elixir was out of the world, but asserted impertinently, that if a drop of blood had been drawn from Frau Bianca whose features as well as name she had inherited instead of from the little Zeno, or if the women of the Ueberhell family had been allowed to inhale the elixir the consequences might have been entirely different.
He saw that in her present mood expostulation would only aggravate the evil he longed to correct, and hoping to divert the current of her thoughts, he said, "I trust you will not deem me impertinently curious if I ask what singular freak bestowed upon you the name of 'Agla'?" A startling change swept over her features, and her tone was haughtily challenging. "What interest can Dr.
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