Let us show by a simple example to what rebuffs our reason is exposed when counting on the support of its logic, face to face with the reason of facts.
The natural instinct of man to get his fun at his neighbour's expense meets with wholesome rebuffs in the outer world," said the Professor, "but in the family it has its chance.
It was like a cold word that rebuffs an offer of sympathy, or an appeal for it.
These rebuffs in infancy, Hadria conjectured, might account for much!
Alfred has experienced many rebuffs but none so overwhelming as the refusal of Mr. Jeffres to consider his proposition.
There are but few boys who have not an exaggerated ego, and it is well that they are so constituted, they will better battle with the rebuffs and the disappointments that youth always walks into.
This trait now kept him trudging grimly from one office to another, offering himself a target for rebuffsthat to him had the sting of insults.
But the rebuffs which Gioberti had received gradually convinced them that no further help was to be found in appeals to foreign Powers; and, urged on by a strong popular feeling, Charles Albert for the last time declared war upon Austria.
In the meantime, the discussions on public affairs were growing more and more keen; and, as the news arrived of the variousrebuffs to Metternich mentioned in the last chapter, the reformers gained heart.
But such little rebuffs as I got were far from discouraging me.
To this day, he rebuffs Hercules and me whenever we try to help him.
He had not gone beyond them, had accepted her gentle rebuffs with a very good grace, and had not thenceforth encroached upon her intimacy further than she wished.
Her apparent indifference and repeated rebuffs nearly drive her poor wooer to distraction.
The Master conceals Himself from her; treats her anguish with apparent indifference; preserves a frigid silence in face of her passionate entreaty; and offers exasperating rebuffs in reply to her desperate arguments!
There must be rebuffsand stings and hardness, and they must be endured; but as to finding good in such things--why pretend it?
But if therebuffs he met with were long remembered, they taught him something of value, and enlarged that stock of worldly wisdom so prominent in his later writings.
She could not deny a particle of admiration for this strange man, who proceeded toward his ends with the most intricate subterfuge, and who never drew a long face, who accepted rebuffs with smiles and banter.
And, in short, almost every day he found some excuse for coming to the cottage, overlooking all Hannah's rude rebuffs with the most imperturbable good humor.
So Clive went home, and, arriving at an opportune moment of national depression after a series of rebuffs abroad, was honoured as something of which England could be proud.
And this was because in theserebuffs and in the sternness of her countenance I found no distaste for myself, nor desire to mortify me.
But in spite of her dumb rebuffs and reproofs and although she used seldom to look at me, I felt myself happy beside her.
Everything was going from bad to worse, but it was not Napoleon himself who met these rebuffs it must be remembered.
Napoleon turned his attention to the drawing up of a definite scheme of campaign for the Army of Italy, now meeting with rebuffs at the hands of the Austrians.
The bruises of rebuffsand the wounds of injured vanity will heal quickly enough if you keep busy.
But now she encountered occasional rebuffs from certain people, not only because she was common, but because she was reputed to be fast.
He had suffered such rebuffs from her that he was bitterly aggrieved.
He now began to explore the columns of the daily papers, in the hope of finding some opening, but met with the usual rebuffs and refusals when he called upon advertisers.
However, Walter was sanguine, not as yet having put himself in a position to meet the rebuffs which are sure to lie in wait for agents of any kind.
Against all rules, after we had met nothing but rebuffs in return to all our proposals, we made two confidential communications to those in whom we had no confidence and who reposed no confidence in us.
When he learnt from various rebuffs that they would not confide themselves to him, he lost all pleasure in the tour.
Under these rebuffs the old man became quite obsequious.
He told them about his journey and his rebuffs in a humorous way; he looked like a schoolboy on holiday.
That was bitter to him, but instead of rousing his energy, these rebuffs only discouraged him.
So he took her rebuffs with a smile, and waited his time.
He took his rebuffs smilingly, which irritated her all the more.
France and Russia also improved their armaments, for it was clear that Austria, as well as Germany, intended to pursue an active foreign policy which would inflict other rebuffs on neighbours who were unprepared.
There were no rebuffs but some of the Southerners would say that it would be a bad thing for the South.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebuffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
