"What did you do?" "I was guilty of unpardonable rudeness," answered Vernon.

They would never have perceived it unless some extraordinary rudeness were shown.

Though you may lose your life in the processthat is, your life here in the world of three dimensionsyou would lose thereby nothing of great valueyou will pardon my apparent rudeness, I knowand you might gain what is infinitely greater.

Then this awkward agethis period of transition from an atmosphere of, to say the least, negative rudeness to one of gracious politenessdisappears.

Such worse than barbarian rudeness embittered me.

He was clad with the utmost rudeness, and resembled nothing so much as a half-civilized bear.

The friar was still regarding him with a gaze so penetrating, yet apparently so guiltless of intentional rudeness that it ceased to be an impertinence, and amused the young Venetian by its unconventionality.

Then, of course, he was reproved for speaking disrespectfully; and so in the space of three minutes the beautiful opening of the new day, for both parents and children, was jarred and robbed of its fresh harmony by the father's thoughtless rudeness.

They are awfully flat and flabbythey have all been rolled about in some one's mind, till they are as smooth as pebblessome bits of the crudest rudeness, not worked up tosome knock-down schoolboy retorts which most civilised men would have had the decency to repressand then we get back to the real Boswell again, and how fresh and lively it is!"

I was received with excessive rudeness by a dirty and hag-like concierge, who, after refusing all information for some minutes, informed me at length that the young lady in question had quitted Paris in company with a gentleman.

Regret as we may the fantastic rudeness and unscrupulous barbarisms into which Mr. Browning's art too often falls, and find what fault we may with his method, let us ever remember how much he has to say, and how effectively he communicates the shock of new thought which was first imparted to him by the vivid conception of a large and far-reaching story.

In a moment they had reached the mass of humanity that was writhing over him, and they began to tear them off and fling them back upon the ground with fierce rudeness.

Justly enraged by such foolish and ill-timed rudeness, he flung a knife, which he had idly taken up, violently upon the table, swearing that his friends should, in his house, be treated as gentlemen; at the same time calling to the mulatto, Fanny, he bade her prepare breakfast, and added, in a tone but half-suppressed, "You are the only woman on the place who behaves like a lady."

"Do you wish me to walk the rest of the way home?" "No," said Cass, hurriedly, with a crimson face and a sense of gratuitous rudeness.

She desired toto apologise forfor rudeness of which she had been guilty, rudeness in which her family had no part, which they utterly deplored, but for which they were to suffer severely.

he asked, with his habitual rudeness.

In this way temerity replaced true courage; so good, polite manners replaced heroic rudeness; so foolish generosity replaced the charitable austerity of the early chivalry.

2. Those blows o'th' face have made a new cause on't, The rest were but an horrible rudeness.

But such language is unworthy of those persons, and cannot easily be drawn from them, who are wont to exercise their thoughts about nobler matters, who are versed in affairs manageable only by calm deliberation and fair persuasion, not by impetuous and provocative rudeness; which do never work otherwise upon masculine souls than so as to procure disdain and resistance.

"If he were a king's son, you could not speak more confidently," I rejoined, with inexcusable rudeness.

Later he says to Murray, "You and your friends, by your injudicious rudeness, cement a connexion which you strove to prevent, and which, had the Hunts prospered, would not in all probability have continued.

He paid some attention to this; but all our drivers exhibited an insolent rudeness which we had never before met with in Siberia, and which was very provoking.

"Othello," a free person of color, contributing to the American Museum in 1788, made the institution responsible for the intellectual rudeness of the Negroes who, though "naturally possessed of strong sagacity and lively parts," were by law and custom prohibited from being instructed in any kind of learning.

a stranger might suppose them paid to insult, rather than to oblige ... from the clerk at the railway depôt to the secretary of the office where a man is compelled to go about passports, the same laconic rudeness is observable."

I am sure that in more than half the cases where family life is marred in peace, and almost stripped of beauty, by just these little rudenesses, the parents are utterly unconscious of them.