Do we say rude or rued

rude 3358 occurrences

The Town is now filling every Day, and it cannot be deferred, because People take Advantage of one another by this Means and break off Acquaintance, and are rude: Therefore pray put this in your Paper as soon as you can possibly, to prevent any future Miscarriages of this Nature.

I am not able to express the Pleasure we enjoy from Ten at Night till four in the Morning, in being as rude as you Men can be, for your Lives.

A rude camp-table was spread with plates and their accessories, and a portion of the articles of food were carefully arranged.

The spot where General Lyon fell was marked by a rude inscription upon the nearest tree.

The device was rude, but it was applied with considerable skill, and it was undoubtedly framed with much ingenuity.

Yet in spite of this rude barbarism of outward life, the warriors had formed for themselves a high and exacting code of honor, which may be regarded as the first steps toward what in later times and other countries became known as "chivalry"; save that there is in the acts of the Irish heroes a simplicity and sincerity which puts them on a higher level than the obligatory courtesies of more artificial ages.

The latter, to be serviceable for the purpose, should be cut into the rude shapes of horses before the metamorphosis can take place.

Slavery was introduced at an early date, and flourished, the warm climate being congenial to the negro, and the rude manual labor of the field suited to his meagre capabilities.

Tu vois, cette Narbonne est rude; Elle a trente châteaux, trois fossés, et l'air prude; A chaque porte un camp, et, pardieu!

" "In my young days," announced the Fat Lady, with disconcerting suddenness, "it was thought rude to whisper.

HIGH PLACES, elevated spots on which altars were erected for worship in the rude belief that, as they were nearer heaven than the plains and valleys, they were more favourable places for prayer.

This Persian belle; (confound the belle) Excuse me, please; I won't be rude; She's in my way, so I can't tell My tale, so much does she intrude; I wish I knew her age, and whether she Was single, married, or engaged to be.

Rude relic of a lost and savage race!

Cold is the hand that fashion'd thee, rude dart!

Unnumbered years have o'er their ashes flown; Their unrecovered names and deeds are gone; All that remains is this rude pointed stone, To tell of nations mighty as our own.

In the rear of this apartment is the kitchen, a still smaller room, of a similar rude aspect; it has a great, rough fireplace, with space for a large family under the blackened opening of the chimney, and an immense passage-way for the smoke, through which Shakspeare may have seen the blue sky by day and the stars glimmering down at him by night.

There is an indescribable differenceas I believe I have heretofore endeavored to expressbetween the tamed, but by no means effete (on the contrary, the richer and more luxuriant) Nature of England, and the rude, shaggy, barbarous Nature which offers us its racier companionship in America.

Even the rude rancheros and tradesmen who were permitted to enter the walls in the exercise of their calling began to speak mysteriously of the beauty of this garden of the almarjal.

The bunk that the Old Man had occupied was stripped of its blankets; the few cheap ornaments and photographs were gone; the rude poverty of the bare boards and scant pallet looked up at them unrelieved by the bright face and gracious youth that had once made them tolerable.

But to her the strange shell she inhabited suggested more of the great world than the rude, chaotic civilization she saw from the cabin windows or met in the persons of her father's lodgers.

" "Were you rude enough to tell him so, Miriam?"

Sow them on the rock's rude bosom, Night and morning stroll to view them, With thy briny tears bedew them, And when they shall sprout in glory I'll return me from the foray.

On the shore stood several houses, square and rude, which resembled nothing that I had ever seen in house architecture.

Then she came unsteadily back, sank upon her knees, and hid her face in her grandmother's lap, murmuring through her fingers: "I have been rude to you, grandmother!

" "Oh, what a rude speech to a lady!"

rued 21 occurrences

PART EIGHT - HARVEST "Time was I coveted the woes they rued Whose love commemorates them,I that meant To get like grace of love then!and intent To win as they had done love's plenitude, Rapture and havoc, vauntingly I sued That love like theirs might make a toy of me, At will caressed, at will (if publicly)

This kept him away pretty effectually after that first fiery scene, when Laurella had flown at him like a fierce little vixen and told him that she never wanted to see his face again, that she rued the day she married him, and intended to leave him as soon as she could put foot to the ground.

" Then the Sheriff turned away with a sore and troubled heart, and sadly he rued his fine show of retainers, for he saw that the King was angry because he had so many men about him and yet could not enforce the laws.

Then bitterly the Sheriff rued the day that first he meddled with Robin Hood, for all men laughed at him and many ballads were sung by folk throughout the country, of how the Sheriff went to shear and came home shorn to the very quick.

There came the day when I rued Andrew's angry action as much as he did, though not for the same reason.

Doubtless Helvia, if she survived her sons and grandsons, must have bitterly rued the day when, with her husband and her young children, she left the quiet retreat of a life in Cordova.

Fain would I feign my fall, so fair a fare Lessens not hate, yet 'tis a lesson good: Gilt will not long hide guilt; such thin wash'd ware Wears quickly, and its rude touch soon is rued.

("Penny wise, Pound foolish," P.R. Menon forever rued, he never carried much of an impression about the managerial abilities of Goan mineowners all his life, after all, Menon had worked in a establishment owned by the Karnanis, Marwaris to the core!)

Rebellion, worse than witchcraft, they pursued; The pulpit preach'd the crime, the people rued.

If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread, and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued his bloody blunder more than I now rue mine.

The song he sang, however, was differentit was: O solitude Of lonely wood, A vanished good In dreams pursued, In absence rued, O solitude!

Alfred, who came to be his guest, And deeply rued that his behest Had all unguarded left that nest, To meet such ruin drear.

Long, long has she rued her fatal wish who set this transient life above the eternal joys of heaven.

Was it strange that Valentine, looking back, should not with any special keenness of pain have rued his mistake in taking Melcombe?

But it was to happen so; for this reason I took no heed of his improper conduct, and his not coming I imagined to be the affectation and airs of those [who are conscious of being] beloved; its consequences I have sadly rued, and thou art now also informed of these events without hearing or seeing them; or else where were you, and where was I?

The rebel at Port Royal felt The Unity overawe, And rued the spell.

The arsenals were yielded; The sword (that was to be), Arrested in the forging, Rued that marching to the sea: It was glorious glad marching, But ah, the stern decree!

The Major took him by the Hand Into the friendly clasp it bled (A ball through heart and hand he rued): "Good-by" and gazed with humid glance; Then in a hollow revery said "The weakness thing is lustihood; But Mosby" and he checked his mood.

"I was afraid you had rued your promise and were not coming," said Marion, springing forth from the door-way eagerly, to greet me.

So far I had delayed the revelation of my true history and name, preferring to postpone this to my majority and our marriage-day; but, after his departure, I rued my resolution, and concluded to write to him a hasty summary of my life and motives of action.

Gladly would I, if thou hadst rued thy deed, Have sent thee back again. MEDEA.

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