And you, the base abettors of the doom, That sunk his blooming honors in the tomb, Th' opprobrious tomb your harden'd hearts decreed While all he asked was as the brave to bleed!
The opprobrious name of Yankee is applied to these last, who do not always stand high in the estimation of the natives of the south and west.
For if experiments would answer their encomiums, the Stone and Quartane Agues were not opprobrious unto Physitians: we might contemn that first and most uncomfortable Aphorism of Hippocrates, [SN: Ars longa vita brevis.
In the course of which, Russel, being a very sensible man, reasoned learnedly against his accusers; while they in return made use of very opprobrious language.
The opprobriousepithets which he applied to her stung her to the quick.
He reviled her, called her by opprobrious epithets, and told his father that he would never consent to see her.
To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
The bailiff asked him if he did not wish to retract the evil thought that had made him break up the images and the impious error that by reason whereof he had uttered words opprobrious to His Divine Majesty and His Royal Majesty.
It now burst upon me in a torrent of opprobrious epithets.
Whom will you convince that her illicit intercourse with Welbeck, of which the opprobrious tokens cannot be concealed, has not fitted her for the company of prostitutes, and made her unworthy of protection?
The path at this place making an abrupt turn, the person who uttered the opprobrious epithet could make his escape with comparative ease.
She had fully intended to add an opprobrious epithet, but she burst into a shrill, almost frenzied, laugh instead.
If wholesome ridicule has no effect, you'll die an old woman in the opprobrious sense of the word.
Do I play like an old woman in the opprobrious sense of the word?
At the time of the examination the streets were filled with harnessed men, who spake very opprobrious words to the citizens, which the latter, although two hundred to one, bore patiently.
Neither defame one another; nor call one another by opprobrious appellations.
The good people of the town will not need to be told that for the opprobrious expression here quoted no one but Mrs. Dods is responsible.
Ghudu, meaning ash-heap, is an opprobrious name given to children of those whose offspring have died young, in the hope of securing long life to them.
Dhaniala Jati, or coriander caste, is an opprobrious name applied to Komatis, indicating that, in business transactions, they must be crushed as coriander fruits are crushed before the seed is sown.
He could never refer to him except with oaths and opprobrious terms.
He was boiling over with animosity toward Margaret, whom he called "Queen Breechless," and never referred to, except with opprobrious epithets.
He accordingly, with many opprobrious invectives, bade me defiance, and offered to box me for twenty guineas.
He likewise hurled what sounded like very opprobrious epithets at such natives as did not get out the way quickly enough to suit him.
I hurled clods of earth and opprobrious shouts and epithets in the four directions of my four obstreperous friends, and I thought I counted four reluctant departures.
