The Upstart loved to parade his magnificence before strangers; and to a Waldorff-Kielmansegg the palace doors would be open a double battants.
Winters' eyes expressed nothing but malignancy as he muttered between shut teeth: "Because I hate you, and that upstart who hoodwinks you.
Do you tell the truth, you young upstart in the glass there?
Footnote 39: Sequimini culminis summi prosapiam, was the language of Procopius, who affected to despise the obscure birth, and fortuitous election of the upstart Pannonian.
The contagion of loyalty and repentance was communicated from rank to rank; till the plain of Sardica resounded with the universal acclamation of "Away with these upstart usurpers!
Also, the German race asks no upstart rulers; the idea of father and child, duty, discipline and personal responsibility is deeply grounded in the German conception of an adequate State.
His abilities were but slender, and he had little force of character, but the natural instinct which draws the upstart towards money and power served him as well as fixity of purpose.
And so it came to pass that deep plots were laid by all parties alike to rid themselves of this little upstart intruder of a poet who wanted to eat everybody up.
Not until Rand was well and gone from Fontenoy would Colonel Dick let his mind rest upon the indubitable fact that here had been an upstart and an enemy.
Uncle Edward says it is the duty of every gentleman to vote against this damned upstart and the Democrat-Republican party.
He was an upstartand a sovereign; and had therefore something in common with the Jacobin, and something in common with the Royalist.
Official patience with the ordained upstart was exhausted, and the apparitor was sent to summons Whitefield to the court of the Rev.
You are counted as a parcel of ignorant people, poor rabble, who are deceived by a vain young upstart babbler, by a madman, one who is running into enthusiastic notions, and endeavours to lead all his followers into his mad way of thinking.
Her Greek soul despises the barbarian Romans, and would scorn itself if it admitted a thought of love for one of that upstart race.
Their wealth would alone excite the public indignation; and the vanity which almost always accompanies such upstart fortunes, the foolish ostentation with which they commonly display that wealth, excite that indignation still more.
Sely shepardes,' moreover, are put upon by any rich upstartand have no redress.
He was not unpopular with the mammas; but the heavy squires still looked at him askance, and the heirs (whom he had licked at Eton) called him an upstart behind his back.
He inclined his head slightly, shame blazing red in his cheeks, that he should be thus reproved before Fortemani and that upstart Francesco.
That Francesco was an upstart was no longer a matter of surmise with him.
Is there no one here who will take this impudent upstart and tie him up?
During this conversation the hag looked as if the world was coming to an end, that such language should be used by the upstart in the very midst of her stronghold.
The Granite City of Bon Accord, with its old Cathedral and Colleges, if for a little overgrown by that upstart Dundee, comes after Edinburgh and Glasgow in dignity, well deserving such attention as Dr.
In this curious work occurs his famous reference to Shakespeare as "an upstart crow beautified with our feathers.
There he became interested in forestry, again to the disapproval of his parents, who looked upon forestry as an upstart institution, not hallowed by the mellowing traditions of church or navy.
Well, don't you think I'm not of it, when an upstart like that turns up to rail at it!
No lifting of a rebellious leaf like an upstart servant that does not know his place and can never be taught manners, but tranquil, well-bred repose.
Everybody said that so much wealth could not have been honestly acquired; and both rich and poor longed for the day that should humble the pride of the man, whom the one class regarded as an upstart and the other as an oppressor.
As there is no enemy so bitter as the estranged friend, so of all the tyrants and tramplers upon the poor, there is none so fierce and reckless as the upstart that sprang from their ranks.
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