Effrontery in example sentence
Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?--Merchant of VeniceOswald, returning, whispered into the ear of his master,"It is a Jew, who calls himself Isaac of York; is it fit I should marshall him into the hall?""Let Gurth do thine office, Oswald," said Wamba with his usual effrontery; "the swineherd will be a fit usher to the Jew.""St Mary," said the Abbot, crossing himself, "an unbelieving Jew, and admitted into this presence!"
More example sentences with word effrontery
But, as is commonly said, one evil calls up another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one still greater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant, until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot, moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use violence. 
