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Example sentences for "indignantly"

Lexicographically close words:
indigent; indigested; indigestible; indigestion; indignant; indignation; indigne; indignities; indignity; indigo
  1. But this the Commons indignantly repelled.

  2. The charge of inclining towards popery, brought by one of our religious parties against Laud and his colleagues with invidious exaggeration, has been too indignantly denied by another.

  3. Verling, who indignantly repelled it and withdrew from his duty.

  4. Report accused him of having indiscreetly ventured in disguise far into France; but he indignantly denied it.

  5. Mrs. Westerfield's first impulse led her to rise and point indignantly to the door.

  6. He pointed indignantly to a supreme preparation of fowl on his friend's plate.

  7. She knew, as well as she wanted to, that her dear Amos had been indignantly put in his place by Clemence, if he had made the slightest impudent advance.

  8. The ayes had it, and twenty-four hours afterward the noes indignantly denied that there had been any opposition, so completely had the dignity and attraction of the place driven away the very recollection of their contumacy.

  9. He tendered this sum to O'Leary, who indignantly refused to give up his favorite animal.

  10. Smith had indignantly rejected every offer held out to him by the artifices of the council.

  11. But notwithstanding the defects and deformities of a charter which, in modern times, would have been indignantly rejected as an invasion of the rights of man, the London Company eagerly prepared for their proposed scheme of settlement.

  12. The prince rose indignantly and exclaimed, that if there should be a single tile missing from the temple or a single brick from the tower, it should be paid by so many lives that the streets of Seville should run with blood.

  13. My party spirit will never sway my judgment,' indignantly replied the senator.

  14. What can be accomplished,' indignantly replied the general, 'when one has to do with a boy who is governed by fools?

  15. We may protest against it as indignantly as the Prussian soldiers protest against their equally universal reputation for ferocity in plunder and pillage, sack and rapine; but there is something in it.

  16. I do not claim to be generous, and the world would indignantly defend me from such an imputation!

  17. Was Peter worthy to preach the Gospel of Him, whom he had thrice indignantly denied?

  18. A well-known traveller in that region was once taxed with slave trading; he indignantly denied the charge.

  19. There ought to be a swift remedy for wretches like Blagg," Mrs. Chiverton indignantly exclaimed when they were clear of the foul-smelling hamlet.

  20. And she walked indignantly into her bedroom and shut the door almost with a bang; for the little woman was furious with him for what she deemed his crass stupidity.

  21. And Noreen swept indignantly from the room.

  22. The magistrate, indignantly believing the whole, said, "Dorcas Hoar, why do you hurt these?

  23. In striking contrast appears a chafing, petulant suitor, privately protesting against such infatuation and indignantly railing at spiritual advisers.

  24. Oswald had no censure for this high-principled, conscientious girl's infatuation, but indignantly railed against her spiritual advisers.

  25. When the Romans heard the message, they indignantly replied, that the Volscians were the first that took up arms, but the Romans would be the last to lay them down.

  26. The tears, however, must have been extremely near the surface, since they dried so instantly, and Mollie jumped to her feet indignantly when a hard ball of snow went whizzing past her ear, almost striking her.

  27. When we were saying good by an old gentleman who sat next him was particularly sympathetic, and you should have seen how indignantly Ascott replied, "It's only my aunt!

  28. And the people of America will be disposed indignantly to draw back the proffered hand of friendship, when they learn how imperfectly the favor is appreciated by the Chinese government.

  29. Barging in, he said indignantly to himself; barging in when nobody had asked her opinion or explanation of anything.

  30. He indignantly asked himself what this maiden lady could know of love.

  31. Thyone, too, did not favour her, and had glanced indignantly at her when Althea made her rude remark.

  32. This latter assertion was indignantly denied by an officer who had his home in one of the gaps.

  33. Raw recruit as he was, cowardice was no part of his nature, and he indignantly repelled the taunts of his comrades.

  34. The sutler indignantly demanded an investigation, and three officers, presumed to possess a scent for whiskey above their fellows, were detailed for the duty.

  35. She indignantly replied, that she had never suffered, either from a sore tongue, or from a sore mouth.


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