Firmly but quietly afford her protection, but do not demand satisfaction for discomforts orinsults for which there is no satisfaction and whose discussion only increases the offense.
Mysterious allusions or assumed understandings with one or two members of a group are insults to the others.
He deeply regretted his ignorance of the Spanish language, however, for a thousand epithets and insults clamored for translation.
The servant of God bore the personal insults with great patience, although it pained him to the soul to see that the corregidor's contempt was resulting in prejudice to the Catholic religion.
When the Duke insults him he bandies taunt for taunt: Brach.
In the following year the Countess opened her gates of Canossa to an illustrious fugitive, Adelaide, the wife of her old foeman, Henry, who had escaped with difficulty from the insults and the cruelty of her husband.
When three of the assassins entered, she knelt before the crucifix, and there they stabbed her in the left breast, turning the poignard in the wound, and asking her with savage insults if her heart was pierced.
It is not the fashion in France to suffer insults in silence.
There are some insults upon which no man, English or French, can with honour turn the back.
For her the magpie was an untiring patrol, and further, one gifted with a tongue that would make the boldest fox shrink from the insults it was capable of raining on him.
The polecat was greatly disconcerted by the mobbing of the bird, and presently, unable to endure the insults longer, leapt at it where it fluttered just beyond his reach.
Thus the pursuit came to an end, but not the incident, for from his vantage ground the stoat chattered insults at the bird as she flew back to the tree to await the appearance of the other stoat.
All sneers orinsults against priests and ecclesiastics were also made capital crimes.
This is probably the same castle mentioned by Adrichomius and others under the name of Margath, to which the bishops of Balanea were forced to translate their see, by reason of the insults of the Saracens.
He must always deny them to those who are incapable, for otherwise he insults the Sacrament.
Satisfaction for insults or other injury, or the avoidance of the reputation of being a coward, is the reason given for so-called affairs of honor.
As to the internal disposition, one should be ready and willing to suffer insults without making any answer to them, if this is necessary.
The cowardly dog, who will take insults and not resent them, but has puppies at his heels to throw lasooing at people.
He invited me to dine with him every Thursday, and undertook to send me a janissary who would protect me from the insults of the rabble and shew me everything worth seeing.
A visit to a dancer, a brute professing to be a nobleman, who insults her in my presence, who wants to kill her, who allows her to be carried off in his very teeth, and whose only opposition is to give me an appointment!
The insults offered to our country by the belligerents increased in aggravation as the contest between them became more violent and convulsive.
And all this because I must needs resort to them, and take all the insults they choose to fling at me, and every outcast has me at his mercy.
To-day he can take his revenge on his householders for the insults and injuries of a whole year!
Louise du Chatelet followed the example of that King of France who left the Duke of Orleans unavenged; she chose to forget the insults received in Paris by Mme.
Boniface Cointet never excited himself; he would listen to the grossest insults with the serenity of a bigot, and reply in a smooth voice.
But they jeered at him, indulging in many insults directed at both Belisarius and the emperor.
And at length they began to heap many insults upon Alaric, reviling him on account of his fear of the enemy and taunting him with the delay of his father-in-law.
I know the insults you have heaped on France, and how many shameless libels you have to suppress or to burn today.
From Spain, therefore, unassisted, we have nothing to apprehend, and yet from thence we have been threatened with insults and invasions.
If any gentleman in this house can accuse me of having neglected my duty, or deserted it, let him not spare insults or invectives, let him now expose my cowardice or my carelessness, let him prove me unworthy of trust or of command.
What but poverty and distractions at home, and the contempt and insults of foreign powers?
These plantations, which afford us almost all the profitable trade that is now left us, have been exposed to the insults of the enemy, without any other guard than two ships, almost unfit for service.
The hands and feet of the rebel were amputated; he was placed on an ass, and, amidst the insults of the people, was led through the streets, which he sprinkled with his blood.
Of these competitors, one had been removed by exile, and afterwards by death; and the emperor himself had inflicted such cruel insults on another, that he must either dread his resentment or despise his patience.
Yes; she is at liberty to make him undergo all the insultsher inventive spirit can furnish her with.
Listen to me," said Don Tadeo, "your insultscan never rise to the height of my contempt.
We are contemptible beings, creatures without heart; condemned to be your very humble servants, and to endure, with a smile upon our lips, all the insults you please to heap upon us!
Then very soon there were insults and violences that rendered the position of the victim untenable, unendurable.
Henrietta had to bear the insults as best she could.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insults" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
