In one of his short periods of freedom he had the effrontery to take the duties of a country rector, and, as such, accepted an invitation to dine at a neighbouring squire's.
The impudent demands were usually honored by the railroad authorities, who reasoned that they could better afford to bear the shameless effrontery of the ermined extortioner than the damage which might result to them from adverse decisions.
This piece of effrontery is about on a par with the average argument of this class of pleaders.
Posterity regards with disgust the effrontery of the monks in making--for the sake of a few dips--such an enormous dip into the purse of the sovereign.
This effrontery had its effect, for the Commons, having retired to their chamber, voted him an income of a million and a quarter for his life, with other contingencies which only required asking for.
I can't think how you can have the effronteryto speak to me until I give you leave.
His opponents not only attacked his reputation, but had the effrontery to deny his facts.
They prayed that counsel might open their case; and though they had been driven from the commons, on account of their evidence, with disgrace, they had the effrontery to ask that they might call witnesses here also.
He had learned well thateffrontery is often the best weapon of an adventurer.
You pretend to know the way to Kaskaskia, you bring us to the middle of the Indian country where we may be wiped out at any time, and now you have the damned effrontery to tell me that you have lost your way.
With unparalleled effrontery she came here, and trusting to her wonderfully preserved beauty, threw herself and her daughter in my way.
Of course, if she requests it; but their effrontery in coming here caps the climax of all the impudence I ever heard of.
That Phelim might hoax one or two of them was very probable, but that he should have the effrontery to make him the instrument of such an affair, he thought a little too bad.
He has taken from me my heart's blood: he has had Manon shamefully incarcerated in the Magdalen; and had the effrontery to announce it to me this day with his own lips.
He was immediately secured, and being brought to trial, he had the effrontery to declare that he was admitted to share his mistress's bed, and that his custom was always to leave his shoes at the parlour door.
He had the effrontery also to declare to the Court that he had not abridged his wife of any of the necessaries of life; and after sentence of death was pronounced, he reflected upon his daughter as being the cause of his destruction.
The effrontery of an answer like that is so magnificent that it takes one's breath away.
It was in reference to this that Whitwell Elwin declared that Pope "displayed a complication of imposture, degradation, and effrontery which can only be paralleled in the lives of professional forgers and swindlers.
The time for the experiments to begin had arrived; and as effrontery is more readily imparted than magnetism, I was awaiting impatiently, in my easy-chair, an opportunity to display my skill.
Browning's good-humoured effrontery in his rhymes expects too much good-humour from his reader, who may be amiable enough to accept rough and ready successes, but cannot often be delighted by brilliant gymnastics of sound and sense.
But in rhyming ingenuity Browning is inferior to the author of "Hudibras," in a rhymer's elegant effrontery he is inferior to the author of "Don Juan.
The calm effrontery of him, the cleverness of him, to ask a favor of her!
If I can forgive his effrontery in stealing me, surely you all will grant me this favor to top all that you have done for me.
The Holy See has been stained with many examples of nepotism and rapacity, but its history has furnished few transactions of more shameless effrontery in sacrificing those whom it was pledged to protect.
No other trait in Struensee's life denotes an ignoble scamp or vile man: his character was rather to carry frankness to the verge of effrontery and hardness.
The audacious effrontery of the Radical gang now seeks to proceed even farther.
Last year, Nathan, the Jewish Mayor of Rome, carried effrontery to its extreme.
Louis Roederer--who comes third on the list in question--and a fourth of the entire shipments of champagne to the United States.
Wandering through the streets of the little town and peeping in at the open doors with the unblushing effrontery peculiar to the Briton abroad, we were rewarded by glimpses of many quaint interiors.
This evidence, whatever opinion you may entertain of the effrontery or of the impudence of the criminal who has produced it, is of double and treble force.
It would be certainly difficult to match in history the effronteryof such a question.
The Spanish Government had even the effrontery to offer the English envoy a reward of two hundred thousand crowns if the negotiations should prove successful.
If you knew these people, you would at once see pride, arrogance, and unblushing effrontery written on their faces.
Poor had the face to complain the next day to Becker; but to compete with Becker in effrontery was labour lost.
I don't remember ever meeting with such deceit andeffrontery before.
When Jack called at his hotel to leave a card, he had the effrontery to be out.
She bore herself before us with all the effrontery of a harlot; and it was well known to most of us that a more pure, chaste, and modest lady did not live.
There were the eyes that fell away before the spurious effrontery of her own glance.
He looked askance at her, marvelling at the steadiness with which she bore his glance, until it occurred to him that effrontery was an essential part of the equipment of all harlots.
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