Before the long European war had been brought to a formal ending we received some rude rebuffs from another opponent of unsuspected vigour.

The pan-Slavic idea has received a distinct rebuff.

Something was wanting to a perfect confidence between us, and I was in too sensitive a frame of mind to risk the slightest rebuff.

If he had been a lover besieging a beautiful girl's heart he could not have been more attentive, while he was absolutely impervious to all the chilling rebuffs she gave him.

He openly declared his love, and, receiving constant rebuffs, resolved to have revenge and overcome her resistance by punishing her.

She had never enjoyed Isabel's confidence in regard to her love affairsand the girl had had her share of these; every attempt to gain it had been met by rebuffs so courteous but decisive that they had always wounded her pride and sometimes had lashed her to secret fury.

" Freytag's zeal received a cruel rebuff: orders arrived to let the poet go.

I should have been, I suppose, ashamed of her, indignant for her, but I could only feel that she was, poor child, in for the most desperate rebuff.

" Greenleaf saw with a pang how silently, but effectually, he was disposed of; a downright rebuff would not have been so humiliating.

The reformer meets with fewer rebuffs; the philanthropist does not despair as he did.

The day after his memorable rebuff, he was sitting in the choky little counting-room of a crammed commission-warehouse in India Street, musing and mousing over the various schemes that occurred to his fertile brain for increasing the profits of his business.

Her vivacity during the earlier years of their acquaintance exposed her to an occasional rebuff.

"You could eat shell as easily as make it," was one of the first parliamentary rebuffs received by Irishmen asking the establishment of national munition factories at the beginning of the war, according to Edward J. Riordan.

Even if unsupported by any outside alliance the Americans would doubtless in the end have driven a French army from New Orleans, though very probably at the cost of one or two preliminary rebuffs.

Subsequently, with his homeless ward upon his arm, the benignant old lawyer underwent a series of scathing rebuffs from the various high-strung descendants of better days at whose once luxurious but now darkened homes he applied for the desired board.

But in a purpose that lay much nearer to his heart he had failed lamentably; for, always sensitive to the charms of the other sex, Heine had conceived an overpowering passion for his cousin Amalie, the daughter of Salomon, only to meet with scornful rebuffs at the hands of the coquettish and worldly-minded heiress.

A coxcomb of the first water, Sir Timothy receives a sharp rebuff when he opens his suit, and accordingly he challenges Bellmour, but fails to appear at the place of meeting.

"But them if we rate, or with rudeness repel, Though some will be passive enough, From others who're more independent 'tis well If we meet not a stinging rebuff.

With her coming Hugh's expansiveness had suffered a sudden rebuff.

I have hitherto met with most absurd rebuffs for my scrupulosity.

Both sexes thronged to the stores, eager to supply themselves with groceries and garments; but there they experienced a wholesome rebuff, for which some of them were not entirely unprepared.

Thrice I put myself in the way of a more authoritative rebuff, by sending a paper to a magazine.

She was not sure yet that she had forgiven him for the brutal rebuff the night of the dance.