1 Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
2 When he climbed into the buggy and took the reins from her and threw her some impertinent remark, she felt young and gay and attractive again, for all her worries and her increasing bulk.
3 Bjornstam told his scapes: selling horses in a Montana mining-camp, breaking a log-jam, being impertinent to a "two-fisted" millionaire lumberman.
4 When Carol was touched by the desire for heroism in Raymie and tried tactfully to express it, Vida made her feel like an impertinent child.
5 There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
6 A nose to the whale would have been impertinent.
7 He deemed all such inquiries on the part of a slave improper and impertinent, and evidence of a restless spirit.
8 Cavalcanti was evidently embarrassed; he bowed to Morcerf, who replied with the most impertinent look possible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 76. Progress of Cavalcanti the Younger. 9 Contrary to custom, this gentleman had not been watched, for as the report ran that he was a person of high rank, and one who would allow no impertinent interference, his incognito was strictly respected.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds. 10 At this rather impertinent order, Peppino raised his torch to the face of Danglars, who hastily withdrew that he might not have his eyelashes burnt.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 11 squalled Polly, bending down from his perch on the back of her chair to peep into Jo's face, with such a comical air of impertinent inquiry that it was impossible to help laughing.
12 No, that I am sure I shall not; and I think it is very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical.
13 I told him of all that had occurred to make my former interference in his affairs absurd and impertinent.
14 If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
15 She saw with maternal complacency all the impertinent encroachments and mischievous tricks to which her cousins submitted.