1714 examples of impatience in sentences

" "I will try my luck," cried Ammalát, burning with impatience to show his prowess before the mountaineers.

But neither then nor at any other time in his life did he show his impatience to a visitor or turn any man from his door.

The master was seized with a sudden, unreasonable impatience.

she cried, stamping the floor in her impatience.

She spent the rest of the day divided between anxiety on that pointfor Mr. Thomasson's intervention went some way to weaken the theory she had built up with so much joyand impatience for night to come and put an end to her suspense.

She counted the minutes, and before it was nine by the clock was the prey of impatience, thinking the time past and gone and the tutor a poor deceiver.

Pomeroy retorted wrathfully, his impatience getting the better of him.

In her impatience she shook the man violently.

No murmuring word escaped her lips, no sign of impatience was visible in her appearance and manner; but expressions of gratitude, praise, and thanksgiving, flowed from her tongue, and indicated the peacefulness and purity of her mind.

The Council of Clermont, at its closing on the 28th of November, 1095, had fixed the month of August in the following year, and the feast of the Assumption, for the departure of the crusaders for the Holy Land; but the people's impatience did not brook this waiting, short as it was in view of the greatness and difficulties of the enterprise.

Some signs of impatience had begun to manifest themselves among his people, ere Raoul made up his mind to the course he would follow.

The few minutes that intervened between the order to advance, and the moment when the boats got within a quarter of a mile of the rock, were passed in a profound quiet, neither side making any noise, though Raoul had no small difficulty in restraining the constitutional impatience of his own men to begin.

" "Then tell me, for pity's sake, where she is!" cried the earl, in an agony of impatience.

The impatience of Robespierre to be released from associates whose views too much resembled his own to leave him an undivided authority, at length overcame his prudence; and, after absenting himself for six weeks from the Committee, on the 8th of Thermidor, (26th July,) he threw off the mask, and in a speech full of mystery and implications, but containing no direct charges, proclaimed the divisions which existed in the government.

Brissot might affect to condemn the massacres of September in the gross, but he is known to have enquired with eager impatience, and in a tone which implied he had reasons for expecting it, whether De Morande, an enemy he wished to be released from, was among the murdered.

I regret my impatience in coming here, rather than waiting the arrival of my friends at home; for the changes I observe, and the recollections they give birth to, oppress my heart, and render the place hateful to me.

We hear, therefore, with great composure, the present triumph of the more violent republicans, and suffer without impatience this interregnum of news, which is to continue until the Convention shall have determined in what manner the intelligence of their proceedings shall be related to the departments.

Augustus had, in truth, been awaiting his father's death with great impatience.

The coroner consulted his watch again, with evident impatience, and rose from his seat.

And once again, and nearer, with a cadence of impatience, and almost doubt, a faint answer went back; and then a gleam of light; a broad, wavering circle of glory, and Barton, with his flashing eyes, and eager, flushed face, with his mass of damp curls filled with snow, and dashed back, sprang with a glad cry to her side!

If it comes to that, isn't it quite as good a discipline for punctual people to learn to wait without impatience for the unpunctual?

she inquired with some impatience.

Then she grew angry in her impatience, slapping her bridle down to range her horse up closer to mine.

"Well?" said he with a frown of impatience and restraint; and Raoul cried: "I sole my pigshoe!"

The excitement of the fire was still there, but it was overlaid and almost neutralized by a vast impatience that seemed to take possession of his whole being.

1714 examples of  impatience  in sentences