impertinents

No one can fire these impertinents of the web from the editorial board of a daily paper, nor promise them a week in Varadero or a Lada car as compensation, much less entice them with a trip to Eastern Europe.

Yoani Sanchez: Silencing a Blogger 2010

Denied the sun, and all comfort: all my visiters low-born, tip-toe attendants: even those tip-toe slaves never approaching me but periodically, armed with gallipots, boluses, and cephalic draughts; delivering their orders to me in hated whispers; and answering other curtain-holding impertinents, inquiring how I was, and how I took their execrable potions, whisperingly too!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Sir Hargrave said to that fellow, You know what tale to tell, if you meet with impertinents.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

For never was any man plagued with impertinents as I am.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

‘I fear there are a great many impertinents, and I am willing to acknowledge myself one of the number.’

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

There is one in the room so very judicious, that he manages impertinents with the utmost dexterity.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

That her rapture should have been spoilt by the impertinents who forced themselves on the little party later, is

Inns and Taverns of Old London

Trespassers, interlopers, impertinents-why should they be tolerated?

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 Various

On the other part, I will not add myself to those impertinents who -- as I understand you to report -- wish you "to improve."

Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

And yet, as we pursued our way, by the Borg 'Ognissanti towards the river, I could not but be struck by the subdued aspect of the citizens, who, far from being the lively impertinents they had been reputed, went gravely and silently about their business, cloaked in sombre black.

The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892