Which preposition to use with rebuffs
The German Executive in July of last year (1914) showed extraordinary want of tact in not seeing that Russia, rebuffed in 1908 over Bosnia and Herzegovina, would never put up with a second insult of the same kind over Servia.
How sheepish must the god of thieves look upon this rebuff to his vanity!
The real misery was simply and solely the horrible feeling of not belonging anywhere; not knowing what a moment might bring forth in the way of treatment from others; never being sure which impulse it would be safer to follow, to retreat or to advance, to speak or to be silent, and often overwhelmed with unspeakable mortification at the rebuff of the one or the censure of the other.
He took all rebuffs with resignation, and could generally muster a smile soon after.
Subsequently, with his homeless ward upon his arm, the benignant old lawyer underwent a series of scathing rebuffs from the various high-strung descendants of better days at whose once luxurious but now darkened homes he applied for the desired board.
The conductor, still surly from his fancied rebuff at Mercy's hands, walked away, and took no notice of them.
You take all sorts of rebuffs without even raising your back.
The lovers accepted the rebuff as a temporary sorrow only, and Providence, like a playright, removed the stern parent in the next act.
It had not been the intention of Lord Cadurcis to return to the drawing-room after his rebuff by Lady Annabel; he had meditated making his peace at Monteagle House; but when the moment of his projected departure had arrived, he could not resist the temptation of again seeing Venetia.
I have hitherto met with most absurd rebuffs for my scrupulosity.
The cause of American womanhood, embodied for the moment in the liberty of a single individual, received a rebuff on June 17, 1873; but, just as surely as our Revolutionary heroes were in the end victorious, so will the inalienable rights of our heroines of the nineteenth century receive final vindication.
Livingston encountered rebuff after rebuff, and delay after delay.