"A lot of impudent little beggars, those American children; I've heard that often enough.
"You have discovered already that I am talkative and impudent.
"A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner.
Her professions of attachment were now as disgusting as her excuses were empty, and her demands impudent.
" Catherine listened with astonishment; she knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing; for she had not been brought up to understand the propensities of a rattle, nor to know to how many idle assertions and impudent falsehoods the excess of vanity will lead.
He was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain face and ungraceful form, seemed fearful of being too handsome unless he wore the dress of a groom, and too much like a gentleman unless he were easy where he ought to be civil, and impudent where he might be allowed to be easy.
This was not the saucy, impudent thing who had laughed at them in this very room last summer.
First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever.
" Here Tink, who was in her bedroom, eavesdropping, squeaked out something impudent.
Don't be impudent!
Don't be impudent!
William Congreve (1670 - 1729), The Mourning Bride, 1697, act III scene 8 A woman impudent and mannish grown is not more loathed than an effeminate man in time of action.
" "You are a blamed impudent little gutter pup," said the caliph.
He made eyes at her, was taken with sudden coughs and "hems," smiled, smirked and went brazenly through the impudent and contemptible litany of the "masher.
Don't be impudent!
" Having finished this note the prince carefully enclosed the ring in it without letting the eunuch see it, and gave him the letter, saying: "Take this to your mistress, my friend, and if on reading it and seeing its contents she is not instantly cured, you may call me an impudent impostor.
" "You are an impudent liar!
" The Boar, somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to him, and told him he was surprised to hear him utter so impudent an untruth, and was just going to show his resentment by giving him a rip in the flank; but wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying: "Go, you sorry beast!
Her granddaughter was an impudent little girl.
A sailor boy had flung his large cap over the bird, and a hand came underneath and caught the clerk by the back and wings so roughly, that he squeaked, and then cried out in his alarm, "You impudent rascal, I am a clerk in the police-office!
