Lord Ormont's apologists had to contend with anecdotes and dicta now pouring in from offended Britons, for illustration of animpetuosity fit to make another Charley XII.
We take him with his qualities, impetuosity being one, and not unsuited to his arm of the service, as he has shown.
The only means of avoiding this was by closely hugging the shore, between which and the violent eddy without, the water, broken in its impetuosity by the covering head land, presented a more even and less agitated surface.
In the centre, Granger's impetuosity and Wood's zeal have been communicated to the men.
The impetuosity of Zwingle supported our adversaries; his ardour was never relaxed.
The impetuosity of your senses may have led you to term mere animal desire the source of principle; and it may give zest to some years to come.
You have a heart, my friend; yet, hurried away by the impetuosity of inferior feelings, you have sought in vulgar excesses for that gratification which only the heart can bestow.
Should ten or twenty take to flight, the rest, freed from all restraint of shame, trust their lives to their horses, and rush along with the impetuosity of a river that has burst its banks.
The Abipones are never hurried into a combat with such blindimpetuosity as this.
He looked into her face, and he saw that there was uneasiness in it, just as she, looking at him, saw signs of a change which he was himself unaware of; and in his impetuosity he was very near saying it all out and betraying himself.
Yet you will take upon you to act the censor, and inveigh against the impatience and impetuosity of youth, as if you yourself had gained an absolute conquest over all the passions of the heart.
He was probably bewildered by the fierce energy of its honest and compelling agent, who had descended upon St Petersburg to do the Society's bidding with an impetuosity and determination foreign to Russian official life.
With a lover's impetuosity he entered at once on the subject nearest to his heart.
With his usual impetuosity of character, he swore that he and no other would capture the charming village belle, and took his steps accordingly.
Having been allowed a previous day of unbroken rest, they were quite impatient of delay, and chafed and champed exceedingly on the bits, by which their impetuositywas restrained.
Nor did Fulvius decline the challenge; not so much from any hope of success entertained by himself, as drawn by the blind impetuosity of his soldiers.
These words at length kindled their courage so effectually, and renewing the shout, as if suddenly changed into other men, they bore down upon the enemy with such impetuosity that they could not longer be withstood.
You are no stranger to the impetuosity of my desires, and how readily all obstacles fly before me: but I'll tell you what you don't know, that solitude adds immensely to the ardour of desire.
Mrs. Maxwell had been prompted to this disclosure by a knowledge of her husband's practices, with which his own impetuosity had made her acquainted.
His conversation was occasionally visited by gleams of his ancient vivacity; but, though his impetuosity was sometimes inconvenient, there was nothing to dread from his malice.
Carwin may be innocent, but the impetuosity of his judge may misconstrue his answers into a confession of guilt.
My impetuosity some times compelled him to have resort to misrepresentations and untruths.
In the present impetuosity of my thoughts, I was almost dubious, whether the pit, into which my brother had endeavoured to entice me, and the voice that talked through the lattice, were not parts of the same dream.
You ought to know that this impetuosity never disposes me favourably, Katharine; I will inquire and consider.
They were such as to intimidate the bravest, and check the impetuosity of the most ardent.
The impetuosity of the black knight left the spectators not long in doubt of his purpose.
Yet when it was launched by a firm and skilful hand, there was not any cavalry that durst venture within its reach, nor any shield or corselet that could sustain the impetuosity of its weight.
These armies, both of light and of heavy cavalry, equally formidable by the impetuosity of their charge and the rapidity of their motions, threatened, as an impending cloud, the eastern provinces of the declining empire of Rome.
Her boat ran out from the promontory and shot like an arrow across the water, for she trembled lest some voice should call her back, and urged her light oars with all the impetuosity of her nature.
He took her hands in his, with a manner in which the impetuosity of a youthful lover, and the kind, protecting air of a brother, were strangely mingled.
Breaking camp, they invaded the country of the Avars, advancing with the usual impetuosity of their great leader.
Forgetting every thought but that of victory and the rescue of their beloved leader, they pushed after him in a gallant and irresistible charge, which resembled in its impetuosity that of the Black Prince at Poitiers.
Nothing could withstand the impetuosity of the Maid and her followers, Patay was assailed.
Accordingly the foremost battalion fought for some time against the Spaniards, and when no longer able to withstand the impetuosity of their charge, they retired as ordered into the rear.
The Boers made a short but plucky struggle, numbers pushing up from behind to help their comrades, but nothing could check the impetuosity of our troops.
Arthur Fitzherbert," said the baron, "that stroke has deferred thy knighthood for one year; never must that squire wear the spurs whose unbridled impetuosity can draw unbidden his sword in the presence of his master.
The authority of the commanders was therefore interposed to curb the impetuosity of the Highlanders, and only a few marksmen were sent down the descent to skirmish with the enemy's advanced posts and to reconnoitre the ground.
To measure time by the state of our feelings would be as futile as an attempt to measure space by the slowness or impetuosity of our movements.
