When the time approached for Mattathias to die he said to his sons, Now insolence and insult have grown strong, and a period of reversals has come, with flaming wrath.
They come to us full of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us with our wives and children and to plunder us; but, as for us, we are fighting for our lives and our laws.
The insolence of the Hospitallers became in consequence greater than ever.
The insolence of this lad passes the miracles of all saints.
The English, even in the insolence of victory, cheered them with honest admiration.
Yet," said Mary Livingstone, "methinks the daring insolence of the man ought not to go altogether unpunished, madam.
This was the greatest insolence they were guilty of; and so they decided upon executing their plan.
But Roldan found his force increasing by the adhesion of all the discontented men in the colony, and his insolence increased with his power.
Nothing could equal the indignation of the Christian warriors at the insolence of the bravado and the discourteous insult offered to the Queen.
Each subordinate official knew that insolence to the object of the Bishop's envy and dislike, and neglect of his wishes, were the surest ways to the favor of his chief.
That feeling which tells him that man was never made to be the property of man; but that, when in the pride and insolence of power, one human creature dares to tyrannize over another, it is a power usurped, and resistance is a duty.
Adversity revived a sense of moderation and justice, and the insolence of conquest was chastised by the signal defeat and irreparable dispersion of the Heruli, who were seated in the southern provinces of Poland.
The Persian alliance restored the troops of the East to the defence of Europe: and Maurice, who had supported ten years the insolence of the chagan, declared his resolution to march in person against the Barbarians.
Perhaps he might plead the insolence of their prosperity, and their deadly hatred of the Christians, whose blood they had recently shed in a malicious or accidental tumult.
Justinian and Theodora received him with cold ingratitude; the servile crowd, with insolence and contempt; and in the evening he retired with trembling steps to his deserted palace.
A greater misfortune," said the pharaoh, "is the insolence of the priesthood.
But the insolence with which he burst in proves that the criminal is not a genuine Egyptian.
This royal act has stirred them greatly, and given insolence to common men, who to-day are like a rising deluge.
But to-day I am ready to laugh at my insolence when I think that the great pharaoh in building his tomb paid sixteen hundred talents (about ten million francs) for the vegetables alone which were used by the laborers.
Rameses had thought, however, that his cabinet was safe, and that the insolence of priests had stopped at the threshold of the supreme ruler.
He was displeased by the insolence of the Phoenicians who dared to lay down conditions to him; so he answered coldly,-- "I will reflect and give Hiram my answer.
She was leaning back lazily, a suggestion of insolence in her assurance.
The insolence of the Chancellor's reply appears to have shocked the other Commissioners, and he was forced to make some awkward apologies.
When they appeared before him he treated them with aninsolence such as had never been shown to their predecessors by the Puritan visitors.
What insolence to plead either natural justice or positive law in opposition to an express command of the Sovereign Sharp was forgotten.
To the general delight, he passed at once from the extreme of insolence to the extreme of meanness, and could not refrain from weeping with rage and vexation.
Already thousands of Protestant colonists, flying from the injustice and insolence of Tyrconnel, had raised the indignation of the mother country by describing all that they had suffered, and all that they had, with too much reason, feared.
He soon found out that the Vice chancellor was weak, ignorant, and timid, and therefore gave a loose to all that insolence which had long been the terror of the Old Bailey.
He had the insolence to cashier the Captain of the Lord Lieutenant's own Body Guard: nor was Clarendon aware of what had happened till he saw a Roman Catholic, whose face was quite unknown to him, escorting the state coach.
A new quarrel had arisen between the Court of Versailles and the Vatican, a quarrel in which the injustice and insolence of the French King were perhaps more offensively displayed than in any other transaction of his reign.
Owen, whose anger now rose at the insolenceof this taunt.
Allow your conceit and insolence and spite to feed on his disgrace and danger!
It is an insolence toward the majority of the purchasers, for it is a very frank and impudent way of saying, 'Get the translations made yourself if you want them, this book is not written for the ignorant classes.
An English gentleman who had been living there several years, said: "If you could disguise your nationality, you would not find any insolence here.
Our grief was increased by the insolence with which the newly created duke carried on his encroachments even as far as Muenster.
In this holy war there was to be none of the insolence and coarseness of the old soldiers, to disgrace the cause for which they fought.
Such a Nature, tickled with good successe, disdaines the shadow which he treads on at noone, but I do wonder, his insolence can brooke to be commanded vnder Cominius?
I will report you to the Provost-Marshal, to the Major-domo of the palace, and your backs shall pay for this insolence to my niece!
The King has resolved to bear no longer the insolence of Guise and his brothers.
On my knees I entreated that fiend who rules you to let me pass, and she barred my access by the guards, whom she had the insolence to command to arrest the mother of their king!
An accommodation such as this would give him time to defy this outrageous insolence with arms in his hands and an army behind him.
Always strike hard, Charlie; stand noinsolence from a creature like that.
The insolence of Olivant grew as the meal progressed.
It was a smile that became absolutely slavish whenever Murray Olivant threw a word to him; but it was a veiledinsolence when Lucas Savell ventured a remark.
Had the insolence of these unruly citizens be come unbearable even to this prudent, merciful man?
House of Peers, by a severe rebuff to the insolence of Jefferies, the Chancellor.
There is no difference of opinion as to the brutality and insolence of the German soldiers in those days, and the Romans were excited and in no humour to accept any insult at such a moment.
Compelled to believe in a total removal, la Peyrade now supposed that in the rupture with Brigitte, mentioned as probable by Madame de Godollo, some brutal insolence of the old maid had necessitated this abrupt departure.
Insolence is shameful towards any man,' returned his uncle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insolence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
