" One could hardly resent such charming impertinence.

" "Yes." "I owe you an apology for intruding upon your premises in this way, and beg you to forgive the seeming impertinence.

" "Confound your impertinence!" began Sir Beverley.

No man who looked that way at a woman could mean impertinence; her own intelligence satisfied her that he had not meant and could never mean offense to any woman.

"Let us look at you, Nancy!" says the Brat, taking hold of me by both arms, and bringing the minute impertinence of his face into close neighborhood to mine.

Though they flutter off the next moment, to carry their impertinences to the nearest student that they can call their friend, the tone of the book is spoiled; we shut the leaves, and, with Dante's lovers, read no more that day.

The king's quick wit caught the extravagant impertinence, and in an ecstasy of delight he rolled on the ground with laughter, while a perplexed merriment ran round the circle of courtiers who scarce knew what the joke might be.

And presently, having turned down a grassy lane and crossed a small but very noisy brook that chattered impertinences among the stones and chuckled at them slyly from the shadows, they eventually came upon a small, and very lonely little cottage bowered in roses and honeysuckle,as are all the cottages hereabouts.

Fearful of a serious quarrel between them and being unwilling that any dispute should occur on my account, I requested the Major not to meddle with the business, for that I was sure the Austrian officer would check the impertinence of his servant when he came on board; and that if he did not, I was perfectly able and willing to defend my own cause.

"Do you know, Signore Avvocato, that you are committing an intolerable impertinence?

'Consume your impertinence!'

For I have got such recompense Of that high-hearted excellence Which the contented craftsman knows, Alone, that to loved labor goes, And daily does the work he chose, And counts all else impertinence!

"I won't countenance such impertinence!

I knew the childish temper, the irritating curiosity, the petty jealousy, the familiarity which one not understanding would deem impertinence, with which I would have to contend if I engaged her.

How prevent a man from writing, and how prevent him from denying all the impertinences he has uttered?

Dear Sir, 'I received a Letter from you some time ago, which I should have answered sooner, had you informed me in yours to what part of this Island I might have directed my Impertinence; but having been let into the Knowledge of that Matter, this handsome Excuse is no longer serviceable.

Where'er her eyes dispense their charms, Impertinence around her swarms.

Aye, prywhisperstarequestion, conjecture, sirI suppose I must endure the world's impertinence, but dn me if I gratify it.

Nothing can exceed the cool impertinence with which the poet Martial prefers the favour of Domitian to that of the great Jupiter of the Capitol.

But you will answer by return of post, that this is no business of mine, and that I exhibit the usual impertinence of man when asked to consider woman's serious aspiration.

Johnson, who understands what he does as well as any man, exposes the impertinence of an old fellow who has lost his senses, still pursuing pleasures with great mastery.

Carroll has placed himself beyond the pale by what he has done in having the impertinence to foist himself upon us as a social equal.

Without heeding the veiled impertinence of her manner, Horace commenced his narrative: "Some twenty-five years ago a friendless, penniless Englishwoman died at one of the cheap boarding-schools in Dieppe, where she had officiated for some time as English teacher and general drudge.

Until that journey finally convinced me, I had been wondering all the while in the back of my head whether Grim wasn't intending an impertinence.

He began by explaining who he was, andif you can believe ithad the impertinence to say that he wished to make my acquaintance!