83 examples of scandalise in sentences

he!" "Do you actually mean to say you don't know that?" responded the Philosopher, scandalised at the irreverence of the insects, but inwardly rejoicing at the prospect of a controversy in which he could not be worsted.

" A wealthy brother of Mr. Wesley professed himself quite "scandalised" at the constant struggles of the family, and did a little for the wiping away of the reproach, but no more.

The practice of swearing is an abuse very contrary to that good purpose, serving to corrupt our neighbour, and to instil into him a contempt of religion; or however grievously to scandalise him.

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.

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

What if I thought Cromwell and Pierre Leroux infinitely more faithful men in their way, and better members of the "Invisible Church," than the torturer-pedant Laud, or the facing bothways Protestant-Manichee Taylor?' It was lucky for the life of young Love that the discussion went no further: Argemone was becoming scandalised beyond all measure.

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.

Madame ,[10] who, though a learned lady, has not lost her modesty and character, is extremely scandalised with the two other dames, especially with Moll Worthless, who knows no bounds.

De debbil come out here at night, and walk about;' and he was much scandalised when the young gentleman rejoined that the chance of such a sight would be an additional reason for bivouacking there.

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.

Call not the eight; I did not bring them hither, because they could not see me thus agonising without being scandalised; they would yield to temptation, forget much of the past, and lose their confidence in me.

In consequence of all this neglect, I saw the weak scandalised, the Adorable Sacrament profaned, the churches deserted, and the priests despised.

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.

Thy thriftless waste doth scandalise the elect, And maim thine usefulness: thou dost elude

Almost simultaneously a tousled head was thrust out of a dug-out almost into the great man's face, and Gilbert's cheerful roar was heard by a scandalised company.

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.

"In the mean time, Sir, this gloomy writer, who is so mightily scandalised at a gay epilogue after a serious play, speaking of the fate of those unhappy wretches who are condemned to suffer an ignominious death by the justice of our laws, endeavours to make the reader merry on so improper an occasion by those poor burlesque expressions of tragical dramas and monthly performances.

Emerson once scandalised some of his admirers by saying that he preferred a person who did not respect the truth to an unpresentable person.

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.

In vain did his scandalised wife nudge and reprove him; he sobbed on, and she grew alarmed.

" Juliana McNally, a frosty-faced person, no longer in her first youth, looked round with a scandalised face.

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 Minister had arisen, half-scandalised, on the point of calling for silence; but his eyes fell on Tilda, and he too dropped back into his chair.

Sir Philip laughed heartily, for both he and the Doctor had been so much entranced and amused as to be far more diverted at the lad's discomfiture than scandalised at the bride's escapade, which they viewed as child's play.

Cette prudence ne vous rit pas, elle vous répugne; votre belle âme de comtesse s'en scandalise, mais tout le monde n'est pas comtesse: c'est une pensée de soubrette que je rapporte.

83 examples of  scandalise  in sentences