think it is the height of virtue not to elope with a married man, who has entirely and deliberately deceived you, and adds to the wrong of deceit the insult of proposing an elopement!

" "To have that fear would be to offer you an insult," replied Steinmetz.

Now what can we do?" There was a silence; every one felt that a serious crisis had arrived in the history of the Birchites, and that unless some immediate steps were taken to avenge this insult they would no longer be free men, but live in constant terror of the Philistines;every one, I say, felt that some bold action must be taken, yet nobody had a suggestion to make.

"You may have to bear many such insults before the campaign is ended, but I hope and believe that the conduct of the Virginia troops will yet win them the respect of the regulars.

There is no American living who would sooner resent an insult to his native land than myself, and at such a crisis I felt that within me which might rise at any moment and crush the foul calumniator.

In this manner, sir, are the wives of the sailors also treated when they come to receive the pay of their husbands; women, distressed, friendless, and unsupported; they are obliged to endure every insult, and to yield to every oppression.

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.

He had shown himself willing to court a base popularity with the mob by heaping uncalled-for insults on the king and queen.

It would not make us less resolved to do all that we can to better the lot of those who are suffering insult and torture, and to exact full retribution from the enemy.

Why should I, who came of as good family as any in Virginia, be compelled to swallow insults as I had to-night?

Every Indian feels the insult to the Punjab as a personal wrong, every Mussalman resents the wrong done to the Khilafat.

"You see, though we are very young, we are gentlemen, and cannot brook an insult from strangers.

" Babe, forgiving and demonstrative, here forgot the insult to Millings and Jim Greely, put her arm round Sheila, and went down the stairs, squeezing the smaller girl against the wall.

Hernando del Pulgar was not at hand, but one of his young companions-in-arms, Garcilasso de la Vega by name, putting spurs to his horse, galloped to the hamlet of Zubia, threw himself on his knees before the King, and besought permission to accept the defiance of this insolent infidel and to revenge the insult offered to our blessed Lady.

Ned asked, ignoring the insult.

He will avoid such insults as are not to be healed; he will only aim at his adversaries, and not even always at them, nor at all of them, nor in every manner.

"Move on, you sons of !" cried a soldier, again refreshed, hurling the insult common among the lower classes of Filipinos.

I must wash away the insult in burgundy, since I cannot do so in blood.

And the reason for these methods of wiping out insult is, in this code, as follows: [Footnote 1: Translator's Note.

No, was his answer, what he says is not addressed to me Stobaeus has preserved a long passage from Musonius, from which we can see how the ancients treated insults.

But though these open hostilities were not very considerable, the disaffection was general among the English, who had become sensible, though too late, of their defenceless condition, and began already to experience those insults and injuries which a nation must always expect, that allows itself to be reduced to that abject situation.

He flung back the insult jauntily, as he and his companions moved on, but at least one of the group suspected that the words had struck home.

Once, for instance, when somebody kicked him, the patience with which he took the insult surprised one of his friends.

It was deprived of its annual appearance at Drury-Lane Theatre, in the year 1752, by Mr. Garrick; whose good sense would not suffer him to continue so unwarrantable and ridiculous an insult, upon so respectable a body of men as the magistrates of the city of London.

Her parents, too, were stupified by the suddenness of the unexpected shock, and it was longer before their faculties recovered the tone proper to meet an insult so unprovoked and gross.