My recent dissipation, and strange remarks, made so soon after his sister's death, were an insult to her memory.
And everybody knows that they may safely insult me in my own 'ouse while my husband sits sleeping downstairs, and taking no more notice than if I was a dog in the streets.
Then ensued a shameful burst of insult and odious entreaty.
He at first said he would never eat again in that house; and added that he had enough firmness of character, he trusted, to enable him to starve like a man when the alternative was to eat insult with his bread.
He saw that their plain purpose had been toinsult him.
She is not the girl to put up quietly with such an insult as this.
When that day comes, don't drag me out of my grave and give me a public funeral; don't take advantage of my having no voice to raise in my own defense, and insult me by a national statue.
He will repent the insultto the last hour of his life," said Magdalen.
Mrs. Tyrrel was wrong to let her temper get the better of her, and to suppose herself insulted where no insult was intended.
For a man with novel truths to promulgate, or grave moral laws to expound, to postpone doing so until he had hitched them into rhyme would be to insult his mission.
Pope deemed this the most grievous insult of his life, but he said nothing about it; the spiteful pencil proving more than master of the poisoned pen.
Then MYalu considered that not only had he been trapped by one of his own people whom he had deserted, but to add insult to injury he felt he was not understood.
They might browbeat and insult a young queen, but they could not force the plunder from the grip of their aristocratic patrons.
Edward in hunting had shot this stag, and Burdett, in his anger at the deed, had been reported to have said that he wished the horns of the deer were in the stomach of the person who had advised the king to insult him by killing it.
The open insult offered to the court of France, and the rejection of the alliance which he had effected, sunk deep into his proud mind.
Berkeley hated him and greeted him with the most stinging insult he could think of.
Rising indignantly from the table, the veterans told their inhospitable host that they were not dogs, and would consider it an insult to the canine race to call him one.
No sooner had they got there than the chief shouted some words of insult in his own tongue and darted into one of the houses.
You could kill a dozen men and get away with it quicker than you could to insult one little girl.
The prizefighter flung at him the word of insult that no man in the fighting West brooks.
These were the days when, as JA cubedkai has reminded us, the greatest insult you could offer to an Hungarian lady was to address her in her native tongue.
I fancied that I could effectually repel insult of this sort without making you a party to it, for I feared the violence of your temper, and dreaded that the consequences might be bloodshed.
So long as I submit, Perkins will insult and bully, and the city will encourage him, If I resist, I silence this fellow, and perhaps protect other young beginners.
If he does not pronounce in favour of his own religion, Judaism, he stultifies himself; but if he does not award the precedence to Mohammedanism, he will apparently insult his sovereign.
It had been destroyed just two hundred and fifty years before by a rabble of monks, incited by the patriarch Theophilus, who saw in such a vast collection of pagan literature a perpetual insult and menace to religion.
Was not offence like his a complication Of insult and of treason?
He condemns no less severely the Chemosh-worshipping King of Moab even for an insult done to the dead: "Because he burned the bones of the King of Edom into lime.
It showed a perverted and sensuous mind to insult the misery of his subjects at such a time by feeble attempts to rival heathen potentates in costly aestheticism.
Then she mounted the palace tower, and, looking down through the lattice above the city gate, watched the thundering advance of Jehu's chariot, and hailed the triumphant usurper with the bitterest insult she could devise.
Menahem was in a position to march northward three hundred miles, and offer so deadly and wanton an insult to the might of Assyria, is out of the question.
But generally a deep silence was maintained, and neither insult nor indignity offered the fallen foe.
A letter from Governor Vance, of North Carolina, complains of an insult offered by Col.
He says the order is a personal offense to him and aninsult to his State (he is a native Virginian), and he will resent it and resist it to the last extremity.
Cooper (another Yankee) to insult Virginia by preventing the capital from being in the hands of a Virginian.
Clayton, late Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, censuring the commissary agents in Georgia, who are sent thither from other States, who insult the farmers and encourage speculation.
The coachman seeing this Frenchman insult me slashed him with his whip.
The man was coarse and ignorant, but he was capable of keenly feeling the insult that had been put upon him.
At this Vaiti's eyes lit up, for she suddenly saw a plan, a plan which might give her a score of recruits, drive the objectionable yacht out of Sulphur Bay, and pay off every rankling insult inflicted by the Alcyone and her people.
So you will not play with us," said George: "and you have the impudence to insult us, with what you term your good advice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insult" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
