Which preposition to use with insulting
It was an insult to an estimable lady, and an outrage on the audience, sir!"
But even under the insult of that "meanest word in the language," Potts sat glaring defiantly, with his half-frozen hands in his pockets.
"I am the owner of this garden," he enunciated, with leisurely distinctness, "and it is not my custom to permit gentlewomen to be insulted in it.
" These tidings gladdened the heart of Gushtásp, and he said: "If this miscreant had been slain in his expedition to the Brazen Fortress I should not now have been insulted with his claim to my throne."
He proposes a poem to be called "Elegiac Stanzas to a Sucking Pig," and of "Alice Fell" he writes that "if the publishing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste, we are afraid it cannot be insulted."
"You see, though we are very young, we are gentlemen, and cannot brook an insult from strangers.
I can insult over him with an invitation to take a day's pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May-morning.
The old cannibal observes the change of base, feels insulted at the implied distrust, and resolves to have satisfaction.
I wish to make a most earnest apology for remarks of mine that were construed as being insulting to the members of the brigade.
Hence they voted him the house and protection from any insult by deed or word.
" The colonel accepted the insult without the quiver of an eyelid.
No, humbug, I won't let myself be insulted for nothing.
It's a preposterous insult against midshipman honor.
It cannot but be immediately considered, upon hearing this account of the soldier's condition, with how many reproaches he would receive his victuals, how roughly he would be treated, how often he would be insulted as an idler, and frowned upon as an intruder.
A lukewarm apology is more insulting than the insult.
Of course no crab of spirit is going to receive an insult before his beloved and not resent it; with one painful quiver of his little legs, he sets the lady crab down, and then the two amorous lovers proceed to deadly combat.
" 'Your letter to me, asking me to visit you, is almost an insult after your years of silence and neglect and your refusals to assist my poor mother when she was in need.
"Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost.
Then it works on the principle of poison fight poison, eh?' "Sandy says after a minute: 'I'm the most quietest, gentle, innercent cowpuncher that ever rode the range, but I'd tell a man that it riles me to hear good bar whisky insulted like this.
Damophilus and Megallis were brought with every insult into the theatre.
Nothing can more contribute to dispirit the nation, than to protract the consequences of a war, and to make the calamity felt, when the pleasures of victory and triumph have been forgotten; we shall be inclined rather to bear oppression and insult than endeavour after redress, if we subject ourselves and our posterity to endless exactions.
Sometimes she still goes out of her way to be insulting towards me, and sometimes she treats me with a sweet frankness which has something sisterly in it.
Unfortunately, this Sibich had a remarkably beautiful wife, whom the emperor once insulted during her husband's absence.
But her courage had never forsaken her; 'she most courageously withstood all Angria's base usage, and endured his insults beyond expectation.'
Sir, if thou must have a fell Vengeance for this act of mine, Take my life, for it is thine; But my honour do not dare To insult through one so fair.