Lexicographical Neighbors of Impertinencies
Literary usage of Impertinencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... him with his arrow, and sent him into the fire, which was presently extinguished.
" These impertinencies were first transcribed out of this author by ..."
2. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... and impertinencies (as at best they account them) with a sinister eye ; and
always suspect mischief at the bottom, though they do not discern it. ..."
3. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1887)
"... there should be removed too all that relates to the castle of Fame, and other
impertinencies of still greater consequence ; let them have the benefit, ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"J. Minnes, as God would have it, not being there to hinder us with his impertinencies.
To my wife at Woolwich, where I found, as I had directed, ..."
5. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1887)
"... there should be removed too all that relates to the castle of Fame, and other
impertinencies of still greater consequence ; let them have the benefit, ..."
6. Private Thoughts Upon Religion, and a Christian Life by William Beveridge (1816)
"... God shall set me over, with wholesome food, "' neither starving them by
idleness, poisoning them with error, nor puffing them up with impertinencies. ..."
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