| To thrust aside his impertinences, I repeated the prayer of praise to the Blessed Virgin, the Ave Maria, and it repressed his attacks. |
| But such impertinences make an artist whom many have deemed redoubtable, if a bit boring, excitingly new and strange. |
| How the impertinences, ignorances, and insults went through the multiplication table. |
| Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences. |
| He had wit enough to appreciate the force of that civility which consists in calling your attention to the impertinences it spares you. |
