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Down with them! In the midst of which an indignant freedman advanced to rebuke the mob, receiving, as the reward of his temerity, a shower of missiles and a volley of curses; after which he was thus addressed by a huge, greasy butcher, hoisted on his companions' shoulders: 'By the soul of the emperor, could I get near you, you rogue, I would quarter you with my fingers alone!
"Who are you, who dare to come and invade our territory?" exclaimed one, advancing before the other. "Away away away! We are monarchs and rulers here. This land is ours, won by our trusty swords and battle-axes. Away, I say! or meet the consequences of your temerity."
And Baum, astonished at the temerity of his foes, and scarcely less so at their evident ability to do execution with small arms at such a distance, instantly issued orders to fit out parties of tories and Indians, to go and dislodge them.
And before company, too! company with whom Hannah had not been "made acquainted," as Hannah, and the sisterhood generally in Merleville, as a rule, claimed to be. It was dreadful temerity on Rose's part. "Oh! Hannah, I forgot all about it." But the door was suddenly closed. Rose hastened after her in haste and confusion.
Rebecca had just taken a hot plate from her pan, but she paused ere setting it down, alarmed at Phoebe's temerity. "Don't you dast to dream o' sech a thing, Phoebe!" she cried, with frightened earnestness. But Phoebe was confident, and crossed the threshold with a little laugh. "Why, Rebecca, what you scared of?" she said. "It's just as easy as that see!" She pulled the starting lever.
'Tis no great matter to add ridiculous actions to the temerity of my humour, since I cannot ordinarily help supplying it with those that are vicious.
To encourage his own people, or rather the people with whom he had cast in his fortunes, he went well to the front, and mounting on a bank of earth, hurled defiance at the enemy. He was picked down by a stray shot, and if he had been taken prisoner it is probable that he would have paid for his temerity with his life.
I know I have no right to ask it, but, but " "What is it?" inquired Captain Jules, smiling. "Have you your diving suit?" asked Madge. "If you have, and you would show it to me some day, I would be too happy for words." Madge blushed at her own temerity. The captain shook his head. There was little encouragement in his expression.
This was the very school in which men were likely to acquire the dissimulation of Mazarin, the judicious temerity of Richelieu, the penetration, the exquisite tact, the almost instinctive presentiment of approaching events which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury, that "it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God."
Bays was for delivering the girl at once. His new venture at Indianapolis had stimulated his sense of self-importance, and he insisted, with a temerity never before dared, that Dic, whom he truly loved, should have the daughter whom they each loved.
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