| Only one other of his bloodline had ever tried to gain mastery over the artifact, and had been condemned for his impertinence. |
| And politicians have the impertinence, not to mention the brass neck, to continue to wonder why the public is disillusioned with them. |
| It is always great impertinence in a huntsman to pretend to make a cast himself, before the hounds have made theirs. |
| 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. |
| To thrust aside his impertinences, I repeated the prayer of praise to the Blessed Virgin, the Ave Maria, and it repressed his attacks. |
