A dignified, modest reserve is the surest way to repel impertinence.
If you wish to repel undue familiarity or impertinence in your correspondent, then reply to the epistle in the most formal language, and in the third person.
Without the Infidel's scorn, stand forth, be men, Make yourselves strong, repelan impious foe 1802.
Lordship repel deviation From forms long establish'd, yet with high consideration, I plead for the honour to hope that no blame Will attach, should this letter begin with my name.
But if without these gifts thou fight, forc'd by thy private woe, Thou wilt be nothing so renown'd, though thou repel the foe.
Soon after the entire country north of the Antonine wall, was given up, for it was found that while it was necessary for one legion to keep the southern parts in subjection two were required to repel the incursions of the Gael.
A privateer came into the harbor, the alarm was given, and the people assembled to repel the invader.
The intention of the person who uses force to repel an unjust aggressor must be good.
Thus, church law recognizes this right in the words of Innocent III: "All laws permit one to repel force by force, but the defense must not be immoderate, nor exercised from desire of revenge.
It is only when the aggressor is continuing his attack, and imperilling the innocent party in life or limb, that the latter may repel the extreme force by extreme force.
Buffon contends that brutes possess an intellectual principle, by which they distinguish between pleasure and pain, and desire the one and repel the other.
We hope the impulsive sons of the Emerald Isle will repel the insult.
They will repel indignantly the idea that they "lace;" and yet, if they be asked to take a full inhalation, it becomes perfectly evident that the outside resistance is a very positive element.
If an assertion is made, they accept it with enthusiasm or repel it with indignation, but rarely analyze the conditions upon which the assertion is based.
I repel such vile insinuations, Miss Polly, as I am a Westmorland boy.
How would you repel any evil suggestion that came to you, Olive--any unmistakably bad thought, I mean?
Averse to the extension of the empire, he still aimed to secure its limits from hostile inroads, and was thus led to repel invasions in Dacia and Britain.
M1111) The great labors of Alexander Severus were to quell the mutinous spirit of the prætorian guards, who reveled in the spoil of the empire; to subdue the Persians; and to repel barbarian inroads on the western frontiers.
The village of Newport News is enclosed upon the north and west by a palisade and ditch, intended to repel an attack from the rear.
This duty was not very arduous, as our regiment guarded a line of not more than a mile in length, along the river, and held heavy reserves, to repel any force that might attempt to cross from the opposite side.
Was to be, or not to be, a Medium so evenly balanced that the turning of a hair, or of a whole head of hair was to repel me?
You have now in the field armies sufficient to repel the whole force of your enemies and their base and mercenary auxiliaries.
Men do not war against their benefactors; they are not mad enough to repel the instincts of self-preservation.
The injured person may repel force by force against any who endeavoreth to commit any kind of felony on him or his.
This shows how anxious the queen was to repel the charges of cruelty, which she must have felt to be not wholly unfounded.
Yet in some of these instances the words "by the king's special command," were inserted in the commitment; so that they served to repel the pretension of an arbitrary right to supersede the law by his personal authority.
Either party also may demur, that is, deny that, although true and complete as a statement of facts, the declaration or plea is sufficient according to law to found or repel the plaintiff's suit.
Taharqa, thus bereft of his allies, was no longer in a condition to repel the invader: he fled to Ethiopia, abandoning Thebes to its fate.
He had hardly succeeded in establishing his authority on a firm basis when he was called upon to repel the Chaldaean invasion.
The famine advanced with giant strides; every succeeding hour endued it with new vigour, every effort to repel it served but to increase its spreading and overwhelming influence.
I do not believe this, and repel such a suspicion as the deepest injustice.
The movement was made with a view to concentrate the command, and to repel an attack from that portion of the enemy's forces which were known to have been in that vicinity for many months.
He saw that the sparkle of her eyes had no more heart and happiness in it than that of the diamonds on her bosom, and that with the whole strength of her resolute nature she was laboring to repel thought and memory.
The troops from Corinth were brought up in time to repel the threatened movement without a battle.
General Curtis, commanding Department of Kansas, immediately collected such forces as he could to repel the invasion of Kansas, while General Rosecrans's cavalry was operating in his rear.
The works were not strongly manned, but they all had guns in them which fell into our hands, together with the men who were handling them in the effort to repel these assaults.
Major Granville Smith's company, which was one of those that first reached the river, was ordered to line part of the left bank, to repel an expected attack in flank from burghers who had been seen on the plain beyond the further bank.
When night put an end to the engagement, in many companies the soldiers had but ten cartridges left in their pouches with which to cover an attack, or repel a counter-stroke.
The Saracens had time to recover from their panic; civil dissensions were forgotten; and while the garrison of Thoron held out with persevering valour, the sultaun of Egypt advanced to join his uncle, and repel the Christian invasion.
Once a handful had helped a prince of Salerno to repel a Saracen attack.
Its foreign policy was to repel its enemies, Persians to the east, Avars to the north, Arabs to the south; its domestic policy was to hold its provinces together and to extort money.
There came in reply a letter, signed by the King, authorizing him to build the forts at the cost of the Colony, and to repel force by force in case he was molested or obstructed.
In the Aitareya Brahmana they are spoken of as the descendants of Vishwamitra, while in the Mahabharat they are said to have been created by Kamdhenu, Vasishtha's wonder-working cow, in order to repel the aggression of Vishwamitra.
But he had to call in the help of the Peshwa to repel an invasion of the Mughal armies, and left a third of his territory by will to the Marathas.
