Many a rebuff was the reward of the good man's efforts, but he never wearied.
Besides, had she not been warned by her rebuff from the Prussian General Staff that she had only one thing to do: keep quiet!
Then you will not come back even if they rebuff you at the upper settlements?
Yes, but we're not so sensitive to a rebuff from guns as we are to a rebuff from ladies.
He was horribly mortified; and the fact that Dunsford, whom he looked upon as a very pleasant but quite stupid fellow, had passed made his own rebuff harder to bear.
A fear of rebuff prevented him from affability, and he concealed his shyness, which was still intense, under a frigid taciturnity.
But in this case it was no spontaneous rebuff on your part; it was the malicious interference of a third party; it was Kindelon's mean-spirited persuasion used against me behind my back.
She felt herself in the presence of a novel civility--one that assumed her rebuff to be impossible.
Reynolds, of course, repeated the visit, and felt the rebuff the more because Lord Edward was not among the men he had betrayed.
It was so difficult for her to make advances, so fatally easy for him to rebuff them.
So, with his eyes fixed upon her face, he was already revelling in the situation by way of anticipation, and rejoicing in the coming requital for his own rebuff when the stranger had declined to leave as ordered.
His pride had had a severe rebuff from the indignity which had been put upon him in the elections.
The rebuff which was on Helen's lips an instant before was never spoken.
In spite of the rebuff he had received, however, Francis made an attempt to effect such an arrangement with the Protestant princes of Germany as would secure their co-operation in his ambitious projects against Charles the Fifth.
If Mary's mood had not changed, she preferred not to run the risk of a possible rebuff in so prominent a place.
No more insulting rebuff could be imagined, and the repulse which he received from his peers, and especially the duke, showed him that he was to be excluded from this circle.
The blessing of a woman who feels as kindly towards you as to her own daughter will accompany you, and no Emperor will ungraciously rebuff you, you lovely, loyal, charitable child.
She knew her husband, and after the rebuff he had received on account of the tortured man he would be angry if she should plead his cause with her royal brother.
Her descent to Mergatroyd was in part due to a rebuff she had met with at York, quite as much as to her desire to conciliate her half-brother.
But it served to rebuff the duchesse, who did not interest him, and to make Adrienne very, very happy when he repeated to her the conversation.
Only to meet with a very good-humored but extremely definite rebuff from his charmer.
Her first rebuff had by no means discouraged him; nay, the handsome, spoiled soldier was firmly convinced that her ungracious treatment was not due to his proposal, but to its certainly ill-chosen place.
Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!
I 'll speak my mind out, show the fellow soon Who is the foe to dread: insist enough On my own merits till, as clear as noon, He sees I am no man to takerebuff As patiently as scribblers may and must!
For, saving an occasional rebuff by teasing, Lord Artingale's love affairs seemed to be progressing in the most unromantic fashion.
He paused and I said:-- "But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely?
Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
He was, therefore, personally identified with the rebuff administered to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
She did not know what else he had read, and comforted herself with the thought that he did not care for her very much, since he took the first rebuff so quickly.
He was fond of her in his fashion, but he did n't take the trouble to show it, so Maud worshipped him afar off, afraid to betray the affection that no rebuffcould kill or cool.
Struck to the heart by a rebuff which meant prolongation of the suffering I saw in my dear wife's eyes, I stretched up and kissed her where she sat half fainting on the horse; then I moved on.
With each rebuff I gave her a kiss; and her smile, as her head pressed harder and harder upon my arm, now exerting all its strength to support her, grew almost divine.
