How To Use Impudence In A Sentence
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He had the impudence to correct me.
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Craigengelt had his own purposes in fooling him up to the top of his bent; and having some low humour, much impudence, and the power of singing a good song, understanding besides thoroughly the disposition of his regained associate, he headily succeeded in involving him bumper-deep in the festivity of the meeting.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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One sister had the impudence to wear the other's clothes.
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What it was all in all, it seemed to Helen, was a per formance - an exercise in impudence stretched to the breaking-point.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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In each the larger animal keeps a contemptuous good humour; in each the smaller annoys him with wasp-like impudence, certain of practical immunity; in each we shall find a double life producing double characters, and an excursive and noisy heroism combined with a fair amount of practical timidity.
Memories and Portraits
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But Lorillard's impudence, and the comfort it promised, did impress many men to order dinner jackets of their own for private stag events.
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There was none of the extreme 'bumptiousness' and pugnacious impudence of twenty years ago; indeed, the beach-boys, nowhere a promising class, were rather civil than otherwise.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
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To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are
Pneumatologia
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Krusee is fiftyish, handsome, and blond, with the charm and slight impudence of someone who might have been a troublemaker as a child.
Interstate 69
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Levite, forsooth, has the impudence to tell me that I don’t understand Hebrew; and affirms that the word Benoni signifies
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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Nor could she move anything, for that would be impudence, a claim to refinement that she, a simple maid, could never possess.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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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.
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The story does, however, tell a truth about him - he is cast as the backslapper because his contemporaries expected impudence and a light heart from him.
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The shout of laughter that followed this was not in proportion to the depth but the unexpectedness of the joke, and John Adams went on his way, chuckling at the impudence of what he called the precocious snipe.
The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
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The notion that any clergyman should have the 'impudence' -- (this was the word used by Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay) -- to pause in the service because people came in late, touched the very apex of absurdity.
God's Good Man
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He used to brag to me always of a great acquaintance he had there, what an esteem my lady had for him, and had the vanity (not to call it impudence) to talk sometimes as if he would have had me believe he might have had her, and would not; I'll swear I blushed for him when I saw he did not.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Epicharis, when questioned and confronted with Proculus, resolutely denied that she had ever held any such conversation with Proculus as he alledged, and feigned the utmost astonishment at what she termed the impudence of his accusation.
Nero Makers of History Series
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This observation produced a long 'Na -- a-- a' of acknowledged detection; but, with his natural impudence, and confidence in my good nature, he immediately added, 'that he thought I would like a fresh trout or twa for breakfast, and the water being in such a rare trim for the saumon raun, [The bait made of salmon-roe salted and preserved.
Redgauntlet
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She had the impudence to get impatient, tapping her fingers on the desk, and tidying empty bags as she waited.
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Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him -- rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
Chapter 6
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A piece of impudence on my part, really, but I have a strong sense of civic duty.
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He insisted upon whopping Scaife for what he called disobedience and impudence.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him -- rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
Chapter 6
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Even then he had the impudence to ask me for a "cumshaw" (tip), and in order that he might not lose face among the little crowd which had collected at the outer gateway, he only laughed as he rubbed his head and listened to a tremendous dressing-down delivered by the three of us.
A Tour in Mongolia
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Upon all these occasions the world seems to have embraced a maxim of our law, viz., cuicunque in arte sua perito credendum est8: for it seems perhaps difficult to conceive that any one should have had enough of impudence to lay down dogmatical rules in any art or science without the least foundation.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.
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The procedure against the "corrupter" (_mésith_), who sought to injure the purity of religion, is explained in the Talmud, with details, the naïve impudence of which provokes a smile.
The Life of Jesus
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Picpon (then in his gamin stage) had been enrolled in the Chasseurs at the same time with the "ci-devant," as they called Bertie, and, following his gamin nature, had exhausted all his resources of impudence, maliciousness, and power of tormenting, on the
Under Two Flags
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Old men and governors wore broadcloth; "full dress" was broadcloth with "doeskin" trousers; and there were seen men of all ages to whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to impudence as a
The Magnificent Ambersons
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With all his daring disregard of orders and established customs, with all his consummate _sang-froid_ and what some called impudence and others "cheek," every superior under whom he had ever served had sooner or later become actually fond of Sam
Waring's Peril
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Yet she could not help herself and paid dearly for this impudence.
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Here there has just taken place a "raid" rivalling in turpitude and impudence the famous deed of Bennett Young.
Echoes of the Week
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The beldame has the impudence too, after she has brought me into this dilemma, to solicit my assistance to stock the farm anew!
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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465 Her impudence is intended to be that of a captive Princess.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He stared at me with a mixture of impudence and hostility.
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Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
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For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.
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Mortimer made half-accusations against the freshmen they had "frisked" earlier in the evening, and had been soundly trounced for their impudence.
Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery
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The irascible Irishman replied that a Scotchman was the incarnation of impudence -- and hereupon a war of words ensued, until the officers 'attention was attracted and brought it to an abrupt conclusion.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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One sister had the impudence to wear the other's clothes.
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In addition, he possessed of himself all the natural attributes of chiefship: the gigantic stature, the fearlessness, the pride; and the high hot temper that could brook no impudence nor insult, that could be neither bullied nor awed by any utmost magnificence of power that walked on two legs, and that could compel service of lesser humans, not by any ignoble purchase by bargaining, but by an unspoken but expected condescending of largesse.
THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
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His whole appearance gave one the idea of impudence; his dress was shabby.
The Idiot
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The impudence and the irony of the attack can escape no one.
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And of more importance in your case - restrain your impudence.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense . But good men starve for want of impudence.
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He has to a very slight extent, but still perceptibly, encouraged a kind of charlatanism of utterance among those who possess his Irish impudence without his Irish virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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Margot's very blue eyes flashed at this piece of impudence and she flushed.
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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My presence in his sanctum was evidently esteemed a piece of impudence too shameful for remark.
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Never since I was born did I ever see such brazenfaced impudence!
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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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.
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Old men and governors wore broadcloth; "full dress" was broadcloth with "doeskin" trousers; and there were seen men of all ages to whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to impudence as a "stove-pipe.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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One moment of South American impudence was followed by a piece of South American brutalism.
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‘Yes,’ the queen replied, curtly, still ruffled by her husband's impudence.
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Now that they are on top, they have a particular and curious kind of impudence, which is only known among slaves.
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
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'An old man's opinion of two youngsters is not what I call impudence,' began Louis, with an emphasis that made Jem divert his attack.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1
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He had a kind of resourceful impudence, coupled with executive vigour and a good deal of wit, which had made him useful in the less martial duties of his command.
Abraham Lincoln
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Laura looked at Warrington with the archest sparkle in her eyes — Warrington fairly burst out into a boohoo of laughter: even the widow was obliged to laugh: and the Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.
The History of Pendennis
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Athanasius, but had the impudence to "excommunicate" Pope Julius himself.
Saint Athanasius The Father of Orthodoxy
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She sashays with admirable impudence into the back quarters of the salon.