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Then as he turned over the pages his eyes rested on a passage of uncivil and ungenerous sarcasm. Against old Likeman of all people!... What did a girl like Clementina make of all this? How had she got the book? From Eleanor? The stuff had not hurt Eleanor. Eleanor had been able to take the good that Chasters taught, and reject the evil of his spirit....
At their invitation I followed them, and found myself later in a small police box, the street lined with people, facing an officer. The man hailed me in speech uncivil.
Not uncivil in the least, said the Scarabee, with something as much like a look of triumph as his dry face permitted, not uncivil at all, but a rather extraordinary question to ask at this date of entomological history.
So I don't think we had better ever again attempt to find anybody to present us to each other. This doesn't sound right, but you will surely understand. "Please do not misjudge me. I must appear to you uncivil, ungrateful, and childish but I am, somehow, a little frightened. I know you are perfectly nice but all that has happened is almost, in a way, terrifying to me.
Having a magistrate of our party, we were well protected by the police, who, without using any rudeness, kept the people off. So far from being uncivil, the natives seemed pleased to see us at the fair, and readily made way, until we came to the entrance of the chamber in which, under a sarcophagus, the body of the saint was deposited.
She did not say anything openly uncivil to Mary Haselden; but she let the damsel see that she pitied her and despised her infatuated condition; and this was so unpleasant that Mary was fain to fall back upon the society of ponies and terriers, and to take up her pilgrim's staff and go wandering over the hills, carrying her happy thoughts into solitary places, and sitting for hours in a heathery hollow, steeped in a sea of summer light, and trying to paint the mountain side and the rush of the waterfall.
Archibald thought that her husband had been a little uncivil; but almost immediately after he had gone, she, too, jumped up, and, without making any excuse whatever, hurried after him. The reason for this sudden movement was that Mrs. Archibald had seen some one approaching from the direction of Camp Roy.
Dominic, neither of whom was willing to render obedience, the archbishop returning some very uncivil answers. At the petition of Doctor Don Estevan Lorenzo de la Fuente y Alanis, who also had just arrived, they declared that there was no cause for it; and without doubt it would result thus, since the challenge was not sworn to, or presented, in accordance with the regulations of the royal laws.
The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles.
Cold in his manner to Davout, who was perpetually quarrelling with Marshal Berthier, he was uncivil to Murat, who was tired and ill. "Are you not satisfied with being king?" he asked, dryly. "I scarcely am king, sire," retorted Murat.