The whole performance was so indescribably ludicrous that I could not possibly keep my countenance in that sober frame which befitted the solemnity of the occasion, and nearly scandalised the whole assembly by laughing out loud.

In the meantime Mistress Oldfield interceded with the mighty Robert Walpole, and the result of all this wire-pulling was that Savage received the king's pardon,[A] being thus left free to continue the persecution of his alleged mother, to beg from friends and strangers alike, and to follow a mode of life which scandalised even his kindly biographer.

This man ruled like a tyrant of the worst sort, scandalising good citizens by his brutal immoralities, and terrorising them by his cruelties.

There is always the same open-doored, high-ceiled house, with matting on the floors; the same come and go of dark-skinned servants, and the same assembly of men talking horse or business, in raiment that would fatally scandalise a London committee, among files of newspapers from a fortnight to five weeks old.

exclaimed a voice in the passage, and the door, being thrown wide open, revealed the portly form and scandalised face of no less a person than Mrs. McNally herself.

" The facile assumption of superiority recalled a paradoxical remark that Huxley made about thirty years ago, when that apostle of evolution suddenly scandalised progressive Liberalism by asserting that a Zulu, if not a more advanced type than a British working man, was at all events happier.

Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muckhowever we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.

In the old days at school he used to scandalise Clerambault's provincial mind by his impudent disrespect for all values, political and socialcountry, morality, and religion.

We must play for love, or we shall excite ourselves, and scandalise Mrs. Lavington's piety.'

Nay, now I see thou wilt not be reclaim'd. Go and bestow this hot love on the earl; Let not these loose affects thus scandalise Your fair report.

I shock the cart sometimes by my boldness with the fair, so that it raises scandalised shafts in horror to the sky!Hang care!A barleycornEat and be merry.

Small profit for him in that: the next we know of him he is scandalising Handy Solomon by having a fit on the deck.

About 1770 the prelate then holding that high office, and his wife, gave some balls and parties which scandalised even the gay votaries of fashion who attended them.

Writing to the princess on the 21st of June, 1872, he mentions Wagner, whose marriage to Cosima von Bülow (nee Liszt) scandalised the world and alienated even Liszt.