I am extremely sorry for it, Sir,and you shall see how I will have this fellow handled for the Affront to a Person of your Gravity, and in my House.

Take notice I am affronted in your Lodgingsfor you, BellmourYou take me for an Asstherefore meet me to morrow Morning about five, with your Sword in your Hand, behind Southampton House.

it doth spring from profane boldness; when men design to put affronts on religion, and to display their scorn and spite against conscience, affecting the reputation of stout blades, of gallant hectors, of resolute giants, who dare do anything, who are not afraid to defy Heaven, and brave God Almighty Himself.

Mrs. Marston, although she sometimes rebuked these artful affronts by a grave look, a cold tone, or a distant manner, yet had too much dignity to engage in a petty warfare of annoyance, and had, in reality, no substantial and well-defined ground of complaint against her, such as would have warranted her either in taking the young lady herself to task, or in bringing her conduct under the censure of Marston.

Before I could recover my sight, the lady of my love had disappearedirreparably affronted at what she chose to consider my premeditated rudeness in passing her by ungreeted.

Neither can I excuse the wanton affront of .

But he met with no other affront from Apollyon quite through the valley.

My uncle tells your ladiship the truth: We are noe peasants or unhonorable To be affronted with indignities.

A lie is not only an affront against the person to whom it is told, but it is an offense against humanity.

I might be affronting within the next second or two a gang of desperate thieves, but I did not quake.

One affront after another was put on the Sultan, one blow after another was struck at his empire.

Bonaparte had never mastered the art of flattering women in the light, frivolous style of the fashionable coxcomb; and when he attempted it his compliments were frequently of so unusual and startling a character that they might just as well contain an affront as a tribute of eulogy.

Besides beings rude and unmannerly, that was distinctly illegal; but Simeon put up with the affront for the sake of peace.

Is it treachery to punish affronts like those?

Here, it may be observed also, the true foundation of the word lie, being esteemed still so great an affront above all others, as whenever it is pronounced to cause "an immediate affray and bloodshed.