"Insolent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a brazen front! So to abuse us is to oblige us. I believe you are under the delusion that you are really talking to slaves; after the insolent excesses of your tongue, do you propose to ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various
... pass into the open air. This time Braddock walked ahead with his unyielding wife. Apparently he was expostulating with her. She looked neither to right nor left, but walked on with her face set and her eyes narrowed as if in pain. Colonel Grand, the picture of insolent assurance, sauntered behind them, a beatific smile on ...
— The Rose in the Ring • George Barr McCutcheon
... the penalties one always has to pay for a woman's fame,' I said to myself, one day, as I sat sipping my chocolate, while I was forced to overhear from a neighboring alcove an insolent young dandy tell of various scenes, betraying passionate love on both sides, which he had probably manufactured to make himself of consequence. One story he told I felt sure was false, and yet I would ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... the driver urged others to get in. He was even somewhat insolent in his insistence. Finally he drove off with Bruce lazily waving his hand from the rear ...
— Frank Merriwell's Pursuit - How to Win • Burt L. Standish
... the palo verde and the other acacias. Here were the California or valley-quail; and lean, long-legged jack-rabbits. Here too were the coyotes, leaner than the rabbits, but efficient, shifty-eyed, and insolent. One could admire but ...
— Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico • E. L. Kolb
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