"' "You insolent scoundrel!

"Confound you, sir," hissed the other midshipman, "don't you dare to be insolent with me.

The Spanish captain sent back an insolent answer, saying that he would not withdraw anything he had said, and that he would prove his words in mortal combat within twelve days, two miles from the walls of Andria.

Irascible, domineering to his subordinates, and insolent to all others he was brought in contact with, he was entirely devoid of judgment or discretion.

"There is nothing to be gained, madame, by being insolent," said he.

" "You are insolent, Louis.

" "You are insolent, sir," cried the guardsman.

" "Insolent!"

If I can only get sight of that insolent Salome, I'll shake a cart-load of dirt over her head.

Wait, you insolent thing!

The new belfry is fortunately a thing of the past, and its insolent hideousness no longer defaces Christ Church, but while it lasted it was no doubt an excellent target for Lewis Carroll's sarcasm.

She saw a young woman, delicate-looking, with a pretty, insolent face and expensive clothes, walk past, and was aware for a moment of a haughty stare that seemed to question her right to be there.

she said, in her slightly insolent tones.

The "Triumph of S. Thomas Aquinas" and the "Miracle of S. John" are remarkable for an almost insolent display of Roman antiquitiesnot studied, it need scarcely be observed, with the scientific accuracy of Alma Tademafor such science was non-existent in the fifteenth centurybut paraded with a kind of passion.

The face and attitude of that unseductive Venus, wide awake and melancholy, opposite her snoring lover, seems to symbolise the indignities which women may have to endure from insolent and sottish boys with only youth to recommend them.

A more insolent display of public wealtha more lavish outpouring of human genius in the service of State pageantry, cannot be imagined.

" Beau Brummell, the Prince of Dandies and the most insolent of men, was once asked by a lady if be would "take a cup of tea."

Apparently he found none, for, leaning across the table and speaking to Calvert quite loudly and in an insolent tone, he said, "'Tis a good thing the coffee is of the best, or, my word of honor, I would not come to a place which gentlemen seem to have abandoned and to which canaille flock."

"An insolent," said Danton, savagely, to Madame, and gazing after Beaufort's retreating back.

The insolent French, long before the war, had been sending clouds of aeroplanes over German cities, bombarding them.

Still, there used to appear in Varvara Pavlovna's drawing-room a certain M. Jules, a gentleman who bore a very bad character, whose appearance was unprepossessing, and whose manner was at once insolent and cringinglike that of all duellists and people who have been horsewhipped.

"It is that insolent Michel Pensonneau," thought Jenieve.

Power in the hands of mean and ignorant men renders them wanton, insolent and cruel.

This demand was made in a manner not less daring than insolent.

He met my gaze directly without flinching; nor was there anything insolent in his tone or attitude.