umbrage

• All accounts concurred respecting the just umbrage which that violation of territory occasioned to the King of Prussia. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon
• That the doors of the Senate were closed and that a disposition had been manifested by that body to distinguish the President of the United States by a title, gave considerable umbrage, and were represented as evincing inclinations in that branch of the Legislature unfriendly to republicanism. —  Life and Times of Washington
• Stands there, handsomely abutting on the Lake with two Towers, a Tower at each angle, which it has on that lakeward side; and looks, over Reinsberg, and its steeple rising amid friendly umbrage which hides the house-tops, towards the rising sun. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
• These enquiries naturally have his foes further umbrage, and they in return angrily discharge their venom at him. —  The Life of Sir Richard Burton
• Often, after an active morning, she would spend a sunny afternoon in lying stirless on the turf, at the foot of some tree of friendly umbrage: no society did she need but that of Caroline, and it sufficed if she were within call; no spectacle did she ask but that of the deep blue sky, and such cloudlets as sailed afar and aloft across its span; no sound but that of the bee's hum, the leaf's whisper.” —  The Three Brontes

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