He treats with haughty insolence the Pope himself, and sends an ambassador to his court on purpose to insult him.

" The gambler looked at him with the cool insolence that characterized him.

Hitherto he had, of course, been particularly, not to say unpleasantly, civil to Ida, but after his repulse his manner became marked by a covert insolence which was intended to remind her of her dependent position, and the fact that her most direct means of escape from it was by accepting him as her lover.

A certain calm insolence about his expression told Frederic Fernand that the teeth of the dragon were not drawn.

There were but few in the last senate, and I hope there are none in this, who did not see the meanness of suffering incontestable claims to be disputed by commissaries, the injustice of the demand which was made upon the South-sea company, and the contemptuous insolence of amusing us with the shadow of a stipulation, which was to vanish into nothing, unless we purchased a ratification of it, by paying what we did not owe.

Mr. de , who has been in the service thirty years, delivered his arms to a boy, who behaved to him with the utmost insolence, whilst we sat trembling and almost senseless with fear the whole time they remained in the house; and could I give you an idea of their appearance, you would think my terror very justifiable.

I see it in Wishkobun's avoidance of me, in my father's silence, in Mr. Crane's confusion, in your reluctanceyes, in the very reckless insolence of Mr. Trent himself!"her voice broke slightly.

He would not even pay him the ordinary compliment of appearing in uniform, but headed his new troops in plain clothes; and even those were not such as belonged to his rank, but were the ordinary dress of a plain citizen; while Bailly's address, as Louis entered the gates, was marked with the most studied and gratuitous insolence.

She seemed wholly unable to find words enough to express the superlative insolence of her servant.

They have behaved with incredible insolence and boorishness to our Consuls.

The press, which was once entirely subordinate politically to parliamentary politics, adopts an attitude towards parliament and party leaders nowadays which would have seemed inconceivable insolence in the days of Lord Palmerston.

Clement soon dying, Pope Paul the first, a man of unbounded insolence, and elated with his spiritual superiority, let loose all his rage against the state.

I continued to suffer a good deal of annoyance from the capricious insolence and tyranny of the marshal, Robert Wallace; but I intend to go more at length into the details of my prison experience after having first disposed of the legal proceedings against us.

Looking upon so splendid a figure, it was no wonder that the mountain desert had forgiven the crimes of Lord Nick because of the careless insolence with which he treated the law.

He does not seem to have felt the turbulence and carnal insolence which break our sense of dignity and beauty now.

They had many motives to aggravate their resentmentthe greatness of their taxes, which were levied with unremitting severity; the cruel insolence of their conquerors, who reproached that very poverty which they had caused, but particularly the barbarous treatment of Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, drove them at last into open rebellion.

It's the most damnable insolence I ever heard of!

A deferential insolence lay behind the affected meekness.

"Thanks," snapped Gibelin with deliberate insolence, "I prefer my own.

"Again let me impress upon you the advisability of implicit obedience," he said, with delicate insolence.

And I assure you no contemptuous white intonation ever equalled the prepotenza of the despotic insolence of this address of these poor wretches to each other.

It is difficult to believe that the man who feels so poignantly the detestable insolence of oppression would not actually, if he had the chance, lay the oppressor flat with his fist.

I will at present recite only his drunken insolence and abuses in these very positions.

These ladies were young, neither much older than Lanyard, both were very much alive, openly betraying an infatuation with existence very like his own, and both were lovely enough to excuse the exquisite insolence of their young vitality.

For the moment she found Flint's forthright insolence more tolerable than Stillman's sterile deference.