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In spite of contempt for the gasconader, his lordship was half angered by his impudence.
For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.
One moment of South American impudence was followed by a piece of South American brutalism.
But Lorillard's impudence, and the comfort it promised, did impress many men to order dinner jackets of their own for private stag events.
She had the impudence to get impatient, tapping her fingers on the desk, and tidying empty bags as she waited.
Yet she could not help herself and paid dearly for this impudence.
The multitude were deceived with his artifices, and pleased with his frontless impudence, which they called boldness, and manly openness of character.
The Minister of the Interior can detain defendants for crimes related to national security, honour or impudence.
A combination of refined elegance and stylish impudence, it ranks as one of the most handsome of all postwar Alfa Romeos.
The fabric of society was changed as scarce peasants could demand wages for their work and not be killed for their impudence!
I don't like impudence and insolence, but in the same time I can stick up for myself with a help of words.
At a Chapter of this Order held in 1619, it was decided to ask King Louis XIII. to put an end to this impudence.
On the first glance, charging 33 times the normal admission seems to be pure impudence.
However, I affect supreme ignorance of any possibility of their objecting to our choosing each other's company, and call frequently with the most unblushing impudence.
You see, the Governer of Jamaica lived just up the road at King's House, and his wife, a white woman from England, took umbrage at this impudence.
The impudence and the irony of the attack can escape no one.
She sashays with admirable impudence into the back quarters of the salon.
Two similar expeditions followed. Through encroachment, diplomacy and impudence, Muraviev made an astounding landgrab.
With his speed, power, technique and impudence, he was more than a handful for the defenders tasked with marking him.
In January 1622, James dissolved Parliament, angry at what he perceived as the members' impudence and intransigence.
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When, some mornings, I return, to retrieve a few final oddments — andirons, picture frames — the space of the house greets me with virginal impudence.
Next day, in the morning, as if nothing had happened, we had the daring, the shame, the insolence, the impudence to present ourselves as usual in the temple.
Now that the rewards are smaller and the appetites and impudence of bureaucrats greater, large Russian firms are reducing the domestic sector of their business to a minimum, while smaller ones are looking to sell up.
The breadth of monitoring includes every detail of communication and the impudence of the directive is so great that it calls on those being monitored to pay the cost of monitoring.
Yea, have not too many amongst us added to their unreformation an impudence in sinning?
We, on the other hand, will be banking on the impudence of youth.
The impudence of his moves, the acrobatic leaps to attempt a scissors kick above his head, the uncanny vision to pick out a teammate with a pass that commands that player's movement and the trademark toothy grin are all back.
They make their outward impudence their mask, as foxes, the better we may not see where they truly tend, nor their true black tergiversation beneath.
According to Suetonius, he bore the frank language of his friends, the quips of pleaders, and the impudence of the philosophers with the greatest patience.
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Indeed no criminal has yet had the impudence to argue as every vivisector argues.
In 1895 I bought the Emporia Gazette on credit, without a cent in money, and chiefly with the audacity and impudence of youth.
You, with the impudence of your class, think you can come to me and bribe me to betray my employer.
Why, they've got the impudence to assert that he occupies a good position in Paris!
Yet man has the impudence to expect the fannies to abstain till he is ready to bestow on them his name.
Mr. fantom believed, not in proportion to the strength of the evidence, but to the impudence of the assertion.
But Uncle Lucien was so certain of the boy's guilt that he mistook his pride for impudence.
The American, that curious compound of impudence and sensitiveness, was annoyed.
It was unnecessary to admit for a moment the existence of impudence or ruffianism.
In spite, however, of contempt, the impudence of this Frenchman half angered him.
Furthermore it was immediately demonstrated that his impudence had not deserted him.
It was a challenge of sheer reckless impudence, the tempting of a man whose reason was blind drunk with rage.
He asked the amadan who he was, and what he had done to have the impudence to come there and meet him.
Which yet they do with so happy an impudence that oftentimes the civilians envy them that faculty.
Wentworth was so confounded with the woman's impudence that he could make no reply.
No man shod in the brogans of impudence should walk into the temple of another man's soul.
While on the subject of innkeepers there is an example of the consummate impudence of terrae Filius which is most worthy of note.
Indeed, I always observed that Tom, with all his impudence and waggery, had a great deal of consideration and kindness.
But there had been, he thought, an impudence in the conjoint attack which it was his duty to punish.
The wife of the prisoner had been employed in a department near him, and had been discharged for impudence to him.
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Not till La Ricaneuse stands before her with bare, black arms akimbo, uttering a volley of vile abuse and of brazen impudence.
He had the impudence to tell me that he came from the conservatoire.
The request had sounded pathetic, almost sacredly so, but then it might have been the exhibition of the coolest possible impudence.
All the gamin's impudence melts at a touch of true kindness.
His impudence still rankled when I came into the dining room at tiffin time.
By his suavity and impudence, he gained control of General Morris.
The Count Valentin looked at our hero from head to foot with his peculiar smile, in which impudence and urbanity seemed perplexingly commingled.
We should have boorishness accounted manliness, and impudence wit.
Then he seemed to breathe more freely, and recovered some of his jaunty impudence.
It was for this venomous performance rather than for his lies, impudence, and laziness that his uncle used to knock him down.
Then Massot, with his sarcastic impudence, summed up the situation.
The impudence of it, Choate knew, was only equalled by its coolness.
Cassidy sneered, outraged by such impudence on the part of an ex-convict.
Then Irish impudence must cut the string of that tongue, Florry.
These changes were regarded as impudence on the part of so unknown a man.
Either this writer is ineffably ignorant, or his impudence is astounding.
He was no Colonel Waugh, rich only by means of his rich impudence.
It was beautiful, the pluckiness of it, the impudence of it.
And with these cracked words he finally departed, leaving me, for the moment, in no small wonderment at his frantic impudence.
He has an astonishing amount of artfulness and unblushing impudence.
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Are you the trollop that has the impudence to come for my place?
What king, savage or civilized, could condone such impudence?
You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence.
Being a hardened reporter, and it being apparently a public inn, I did not need to summon much of my impudence to sit down at the long table and order some cider.
Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader, and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings.
