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There you are, enough to make doctors or professors of every man Jack o' you, if you'll on'y take it all in." "Professors!" growled Joe Stubley, who had come on deck, still suffering from his strange internal complaint. "More like to make fools on us. Wot do we want wi' books and larnin'!" "Nothin' wotsumdever," answered Pat Stiver, with a look of the most patronising insolence.
Waving them back, he said to the bully: "I have no weapon, and if I had, I could not take your life, nor try to take it; and you know that very well. But I propose to meet your insolence the first shown me in this town." Here murmurs of approbation went round. "You will, of course, take the revolver from your pocket, and throw it on the ground."
How can I ever forgive him when he tears your life by thrusting me forth from it me and everything I am and mean! You have witnessed it, Karen you have seen my efforts to win your husband. You have seen his contempt for me, his rancour, his half-hidden insolence.
In short, in all the overt acts, the demeanor and the language of this excitable State, there was such insolence, besides hostility, that her emissaries must have been surprised at the urbane courtesy with which they were received, even by a President of Mr. Buchanan's views. After the secession of South Carolina the other Gulf States hesitated briefly.
The Major paid the levy with the first mortgage he had ever given in his life, and straightway Jerome Conners, who had been dealing in mules and other Government supplies, took an attitude that was little short of insolence toward his old master, whose farm was passing into the overseer's clutches at last.
He had always in his heart been afraid of this boy with his wild and reckless temper, and felt that in his present mood Ned was capable of anything. Still as Mr. Mulready took his seat in his gig his predominant feeling was satisfaction. "I am glad I have given him a lesson," he muttered to himself, "and have paid him off for months of insolence.
Adams remarked: "There is a tone of insolence and insult in his intercourse with both houses of Congress, especially since his reëlection, which never was witnessed between the Executive and Legislature before. The domineering tone has heretofore been usually on the side of the legislative bodies to the Executive, and Clay has not been sparing in the use of it. He is now paid in his own coin."
Nothing could be so exquisitely human, nothing especially could be so exquisitely masculine as that combination of self-love and self-assertion and even insolence with a naked and helpless sensibility to the slightest breath of ridicule. Pip thinks himself better than every one else, and yet anybody can snub him; that is the everlasting male, and perhaps the everlasting gentleman.
But on this one night Dilly found out that Annette's life had been a continual laying hold of Eternal Being, not for herself, but for the creature she loved; that she had shown the insolence and audacity of a thousand spirits in one, besieging high heaven and crying in the ear of God: "I demand of Thee this soul that Thou hast made." And somehow Dilly knew now that she was of those who overcome.
They could do that sort of insolence as well as the driver they copied it from for, let it be borne in mind, the overland driver had but little less contempt for his passengers than he had for his hostlers.
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