Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears.
"Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence.
" cried Catherine; "none of your insolence before me!
Where will their insolence stop?
His peevish reproofs wakened in her a naughty delight to provoke him: she was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at once, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words; turning Joseph's religious curses into ridicule, baiting me, and doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness: how the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inc
Mr Tulliver, Mrs Glegg considered, must be made to feel, when he came to his right mind, that he could never humble himself enough; for that had come which she had always foreseen would come of his insolence in time past "to them as were the best friends he'd got to look to.
Without any reason that could justify, any apology that could atone for the abruptness, the rudeness, nay, the insolence of it.
Such insolence of behaviour as Miss Tilney's she had never heard of in her life!
He treated you with every sort of insolence and disrespect, and the bravest of you didn't dare to say a word.
" "Dig away, boys," said Silver with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts and I shouldn't wonder.
And you're the last above board of that same meddling crew; and you have the Davy Jones's insolence to up and stand for cap'n over me--you, that sank the lot of us!
" The old man, furious at this insolence as he considered it, took a cup and threw it at the Caliph, who easily avoided a missile from the hand of a drunken man.
This was all done to humble your proud spirit, and to punish you for the insolence with which you mocked me.
