Not less distant are the two extremes of their social development; one section of the group partaking of the civilization of China, another exhibiting the rudeness of the Samöeid, and Yeniseian.
Their very politeness was more annoying than rudeness would have been.
It was once more the rudeness which was repellent, and which almost outweighed the pathos of many of the episodes and the undeniable grandeur of the trial and death.
Before the revival of classic literature, the Barbarians in Europe were immersed in ignorance; and their vulgar tongues were marked with the rudeness and poverty of their manners.
I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.
Pleasant keeps always something of the sense of actually giving pleasure, and thus surpasses the meaning of good-natured; there are good-natured people who by reason of rudeness and ill-breeding are not pleasant companions.
The reason of his delay and hesitation was therudeness of his style and language in consequence of his captivity when he had to make use of a strange tongue.
He accordingly demanded an explanation from Abner, but instead of explanation or apology, he received a volley of rudeness and defiance.
They had to struggle against the difficulties incidental to the first beginnings of art and to the rudeness of the Latin language.
Yet the very rudeness of that work is significant of the energy of a man who had to accomplish a gigantic task by his own unaided efforts.
The creation of an untutored age may be recognised in the rudeness of design,--of a Roman mind in the national spirit, the colossal proportions, and the strong workmanship of the poem.
My entreaties alone saved him from being publicly bastinadoed, as the sultan wished, when he heard of all his rudeness and disobedience.
Our troubles on the score of rudeness were happily terminated at Haura, where a huge castle, belonging to the Al Kaiti family, dominates a humble village, surrounded by palm groves.
Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilization.
They have in some cases returned to rudeness again; and it is not from the actual possession of arts, science, or policy, that we are to pronounce of their genius.
In emerging from a state of rudeness and simplicity, men must be expected to act from that spirit of equality, or moderate subordination, to which they have been accustomed.
Though I committed the rudeness of refusing to call, you never in our subsequent intercourse varied your manner by the slightest shade, treating me always with a courtesy I ill deserved.
I felt so irritated by both tone and words that but for the seeming rudeness I should have moved away at once.
Now it had been a principle with Mary's father, and she had thoroughly learned it, that whatever would be counted a rudeness by any customer, must be shown to none.
Hesper, with a rudeness for which, if an apology be necessary, I leave my reader to find it.
He paid some attention to this; but all our drivers exhibited an insolent rudeness which we had never before met with in Siberia, and which was very provoking.
Certainly the spectacle of these exotically plumed bipeds, whose fine feathers were already bedrabbled by sand and growing limp in the sea breeze, was somewhat dissonant with the rudeness of sea and sky and shore.
There was not the slightest trace of any intentional rudeness in the reminder.
With several young men I proceeded on my way to New Hampshire, and making the journey merry with rudeness and laughter, we prosecuted it till I arrived at Gilmanton.
The minds of the children were not softened and controlled by religious reverence, the absence of which is usually followed by a degree of rudeness in regard to all religious form.
Sometimes, through the assumed rudeness of our gaolers we could see a feeling of awkwardness, confusion and even commiseration.
He had been accused of this at Eisleben, and Count Albert of Mansfeld, whose service he had quitted with rudeness and discontent, denounced him as a restless and dangerous fellow.
Zwingli's later replies evince a straightforwardness we miss in the earlier ones, but they are marred by much rudeness and coarseness of language, and display throughout a lofty self-consciousness and a triumphant assurance of victory.
The tall gentleman who so gracefully apologized for his seeming rudeness to you will entertain you while I am absent.
I humbly apologize for the rudeness of which I was guilty, though I assure you I have had abundant provocation for it.
This naturalization of Greek literature at Rome was due to the rudenessand poverty of the national literature of Italy, to the influence exerted by the Greek colonies, and to the political subjugation of Greece.
During the seventh and eighth centuries Latin composition degenerated into the rudeness of the monkish style.
