“She had the impudence to get impatient, tapping her fingers on the desk and tidying empty bags as she waited.”

“One moment of South American impudence was followed by a piece of South American brutalism.”

“For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.”

“I confess, indeed, that to compare myself unto him for aught I have yet said, were both impudency and arrogancy.”

“The first four poems repeat ideas from the second section, which compared rocks with sins, such as the shame, impudency and injuriousness shared by rocks and sinners.”