It is better to be made love to insolentlythan to be ordered about.
Nelly, lolling in another corner, kicked the ground, looking away insolently from the elaborate wink of one of the scullions.
Serenely and insolently they rode by, without paying the least attention to him.
His eyes were fixed insolently on Fulk, as though to cow his courage.
Fulk took the measure of the man who stalked insolently into the hall.
This outrage, insolently vindicated by the municipal claim of Great Britain to the services of her subjects, was enforced arrogantly and perpetually on the high seas, where Municipal Law is silent and International Law alone prevails.
She no longer displayed aninsolently happy countenance.
I claim," said he, "a war against the Emerald Republic, which insolently contends with our pigs for the hegemony of hams and sauces in all the markets of the universe.
He insolently proclaimed that I had spoken of the gods of Rome as false and lying gods, and that I held as the true God the present successor of Jupiter.
Was her confidence, then, so insolently fixed that she had pity left over and to spare for this unhappy child who was to all intents and purposes forbidden to leave the house without permission?
I had seen Jennie's disdainful glance at the coquetry with which she had cast it about me; almost insolently she had allowed her own towelling to drop where it would; and Julia now enveloped me in a double sense.
More respectful and humble than other nations toward blessed Peter and pontifical decrees, the French, unlike other peoples, have been unwilling to behave insolently against God.
A certain knight,[266] whom the king had made prefect of the city of Tiberias, behaved insolentlytowards the king.
You doubted her, but the common village voice, so insolently free-spoken, never did so for a moment!
If you permit me, I wish to show that brute, who insolently makes such a parade before the enemy's line, that I am sprung from that family which dislodged a body of Gauls from the Tarpeian rock.
Louis truly was, as his favourite had so insolently asserted, a mere puppet in their hands; and the consequence of this undignified neglect was fatal to the intellectual progress of the young sovereign.
You heard how insolently they demanded a royal fortress for their leader; and I am well aware that should I grant their request it would only expose me to the necessity of making new concessions.
So that speech of the Rhodian to a lictor of the Roman prætor who was shouting and talking insolently was not inapt, "It is no matter to me what you say, but what your master thinks.
In the matter of the Seistan frontier dispute with Persia, British arbitration was insolentlydefied by the latter Power, yet we urged the Ameer to accept the Shah's terms.
Talleyrand insolently calls the several cordons, or ribands, distributed by Bonaparte among the Prussian Ministers and Generals, "his leading-strings.
Nor do I, by denial, place bounds to the divine power, nor, by assent, insolently extend what cannot be extended.
Though Smerdyakov spoke without haste and obviously controlling himself, yet there was something in his voice, determined and emphatic, resentful and insolently defiant.
He turned and walked insolently away and the girl, with the strain of necessity removed, sank back weakly against the cool solidity of the walnut trunk.
He strolled insolently over to the window which was still open and leaned with his elbows on the sill looking in.
The tall savage exulted in the mortification he had awakened, and as his eye glanced insolently from head to foot along his enemy, its expression told how much he laughed at the impotence of his anger.
The minister, boldly demanded of the king the dismissal of "those petty folks who insolently abused his ear.
As she passed along the streets she heard nothing but a confusion of voices amongst the people, speaking insolently of those who would withdraw in apprehension.
To say that God cannot give thought to matter, is to say the most insolently absurd thing that has ever been advanced in the privileged schools of madness and folly.
He either sneers or insolently asks whether I am less savage to-day.
It was after a day when she had sung more insolently than ever, drunk more than her accustomed allowance, and had shown Ambroise the purse--the sockets of the serpent's eyes untenanted by the beautiful carbuncles.
After his adventure in Balak, he feared neither man nor devil, and he insolently returned the black fellow's gaze.
Ostrov winked at her insolentlyand said: "Thank you most humbly.
The two men quickly overtook her, and as they obstructed her passage they laughed insolently and said: "Ah, my beauty!
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