o' th' window; but it would look so impudent."

"You are a rogue, my man, an impudent and a black-hearted rogue and vagabond.

When they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved, he is only not sensible of his defects."

And afterward she did be impudent unto me, and did deny me to kiss her.

The documents, on the basis of which he had publicly accused them of being paid agents of the Serbian Government, had been supplied to him by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office, and the trial revealed them as impudent forgeries, concocted in the Austro-Hungarian Legation in Belgrade!

I do not know whether his principal had any knowledge of his impudent attempt at bribery.

On the many intrigues of that period I often conversed with M. Zola, who was particularly angered by the blind opposition of President Faure and the impudent duplicity of Prime Minister Dupuy.

impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty^; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, full of sound and fury

discourteous, uncourteous^; uncourtly^; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite^; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar &c 851; dedecorous^; foul- mouthed foul-spoken; abusive. uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious; cool; pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious.

XIV. This, which is an impudent trick, is played as follows: When your opponent has answered several of your questions without the answers turning out favourable to the conclusion at which you are aiming, advance the desired conclusion,although it does not in the least follow,as though it had been proved, and proclaim it in a tone of triumph.

This, too, is why one man will look another in the face, with the impudent assurance that he will never see anything but a miserable resemblance of himself; and this is just what he will see, as he cannot grasp anything beyond it.

We see at once that this letter is one of those impudent and transparent forgeries in which the literature of the first five centuries unhappily abounds.

The impudent spirit of young America has not yet exerted its baneful influence here.

We are afraid of the light, of impudent opinion and the rulers of the hour who call to us saying: "Put it out!

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.

It was King Cophetua wooing the beggar-maidand the beggar was an impudent, ungrateful, idiotic little piece!"

As she came starry-eyed through the gardens, the impudent wind trifling with her hair, I protest she might have been some lady of Oberon's court stolen out of Elfland to bedevil us poor mortals, with only a moonbeam for the changeable heart of her, and for raiment a violet shadow spirited from the under side of some big, fleecy cloud.

I see a day at hand, when these impudent women shall be for bidden from the pulpit to go exposing their naked bosoms.

"Impudent wretch!" moaned Mrs. Heale to herself.

"For my part," cried Olivia, "I don't like him, he is so extremely impudent and familiar."

Is thy hart sear'd, thy browe made impudent, And all thy malefactions crownd[110] with lyes Against just testates and apparent truthes?

Sir, be credible, tis ballanst to be superlative politicke custome in these houres to dwell in shallowe accoutrements, as a defence for the abilitie of his pursse from the infringed Oath of some impudent face, that will borrowe a gentlemans revenewes if he be vestally adornd:

I had, however, scarcely set my foot upon Russian ground, when the impudent begging for drink-money began.

If he denies either of these points, then one must avow that one will say no more; if he denies neither of them, and yet continues to urge his arguments in opposition to one, then one must say that it is impossible for any one ever to expect to see a more impudent man.

As these Gibeonites were Canaanites, and as they had greatly exasperated the Israelites by impudent imposition, and lying, we might assuredly expect that they would reduce them to the condition of chattels if there was any case in which God permitted them to do so.

One day, Paul was imprudent enough to blow the smoke of his cigar in his face; another time, Madame Lormeau was teasing him with the tip of her umbrella and he swallowed the tip.

But soon after this the haughty favorite became imprudent in the expressions she used before her royal mistress; she began to weary of the drudgeries of her office as mistress of the robes, and turned over her duties partially to a waiting-woman, who was destined ultimately to supplant her in the royal favor.

Gentle, humane, and merciful even to a fault, he seems to have been steady in no other circumstance of his character; but to have received every impression from those who surrounded him, and whom he loved, for the time, with the most imprudent and most unreserved affection.

[u], was surrounded by a great number of strangers from that country, whom he caressed with the fondest affection, and enriched by an imprudent generosity [w].

All these imprudent and illegal measures afforded a pretence to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, to attempt an innovation in the government, and to wrest the sceptre from the feeble and irresolute hand which held it.

The great, if not only, weakness of this prince in his government, was the imprudent passion for crusades; but it was his zeal chiefly that procured him from the clergy the title of St. Lewis, by which he is known in the French history; and if that appellation had not been so extremely prostituted, as to become rather a term of reproach, he seems by his uniform probity and goodness, as well as his piety, to have fully merited the title.

Perhaps the cardinal only wanted to get the imprudent poet back to Italy; for, on Tasso's return to Ferrara, he was not only received into the service of the duke with a salary of some fifteen golden scudi a-month, but told that he was exempted from any particular duty, and might attend in peace to his studies.

The commandant judged it imprudent to allow the Africans to enter the town with their muskets full cocked and poised ready to fire.

Being joined by them and by the Creek Indians, and having made a sufficient number of fascines and short ladders, provided all other necessaries for attacking the intrenchments, and brought up thirty-six cohorns, he received notice that the Commodore had resolved to forego the attack; declaring, that, as the season of hurricanes was approaching, he judged it imprudent to hazard his Majesty's ships any longer on the coast.

But even yet granting that these unhappy people deserve no indulgence, it is certainly imprudent in any state to lose the benefit of the labor of so many thousands.

By the "grandees" it was thought imprudent to submit them to an examination, which would make them public; but the answer returned satisfied the contracting

That single imprudent act of an inexperienced and criminally thoughtless officer had thrown away all that had been with so much difficulty attained by the long and galling warfare around the fortress; and those war- vessels of the Romans which his presumption had not forfeited were shortly afterwards destroyed by the folly of his colleague.

Just then she was expressing her grief in lowered tones: "But how imprudent it was, at his age, to persist in living alonelike a wolf in his lair!

"I think Jack was probably rash and imprudent, and I fear, poor boy, he may have come to harm.

"Harrie, this is very imprudent,very!

Moreover, he had certain tricks which lured his antagonist to an imprudent confidence.

Nay as an Episcopalian of the Church of England, I hold it an unsafe and imprudent concession, tending to weaken the governing right of the Bishops.

Louisa finds herself very much embarrassed by Melanthe's imprudent Behaviour.

However, she thought it would be imprudent to break too abruptly with her, and contented herself for the present with encasing her promise that neither mr. Bn, nor any other person should for the future give her the least interruption of the like sort.

Louisa finds herself very much embarrassed by Melanthe's imprudent behaviour.

She made no distinction between the fools who affronted her and the imprudent Clerambault who caused all the trouble; so that at every meal there were awkward remarks meant to induce him to keep still.

Mrs. Haywood indeed drew upon her old stock of love scenes tender or importunate, duels, marital disputes, and elopements to lend interest to her story, but except for the mock-marriage with a scoundrelly valet from which the imprudent Betsy is rescued in the nick of time by her former lover, no passage in the four volumes recommends itself particularly either to sense or to sensibility.

'It was a most imprudent thing to go up Helvellyn in such weather,' said Fräulein Müller, shaking her head gloomily as she ate her fish.

but I think you are two most imprudent young people.' 'Providence takes care of imprudent lovers, just as it does of the birds in their nests,' answered Hammond, smiling.

but I think you are two most imprudent young people.' 'Providence takes care of imprudent lovers, just as it does of the birds in their nests,' answered Hammond, smiling.