umbrages

Whether it's oil slicks, undocumented immigrants or Rand Paul, the flood of voters 'umbrages and upsets across the political spectrum continues to build.

Wayne Trujillo: The Tea Party: Is It A Revival of American Ideals or Merely Alice in Wonderland? 2010

Whether it's oil slicks, undocumented immigrants or Rand Paul, the flood of voters 'umbrages and upsets across the political spectrum continues to build.

Wayne Trujillo: The Tea Party: Is It A Revival of American Ideals or Merely Alice in Wonderland ? 2010

Charles Ritchie reflects those terms of reference set out by John Adams, second President of the United States, when he charged his new Envoys to France "to dissipate umbrages, to remove prejudices, to rectify errors and adjust all differences."

The Canadian Foreign Service as a Career 1964

This may serve to account for many umbrages (which we shall afterwards have occasion to mention) taken by Indians in general at purchases made and titles obtained by private persons, and even by particular provinces: for no Indian, however great his influence and authority, could give away more than his own right to any tract of land, which, in proportion, is no more than as one man to the whole tribe.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

London winter, or the azure splendour of an equatorial day, -- whether your steps be tracked in snows, or in the burning black sand of a tropic beach, -- whether you rest beneath the swart shade of Northern pines, or under spidery umbrages of palm: -- you are haunted ever and everywhere by a certain gentle presence.

Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

I envy you your forest-work, your summer umbrages, and clear silent lakes.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883

The umbrages lining the wrinkles, collecting in the hollows, slanting from sudden projections, may become before your eyes almost as unreally beautiful as the landscape colors of a Japanese fan; -- they shift most generally during the day from indigo-blue through violets and paler blues to final lilacs and purples; and even the shadows of passing clouds have a faint blue tinge when they fall on Pelée.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Again I see the mountain road in the yellow glow, banded with umbrages of palm.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

Thus viewed, the whole island shape is a mass of green, with purplish streaks and shadowings here and there: glooms of forest-hollows, or moving umbrages of cloud.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

The spectres of his fancy have nothing in common with those indistinct and monstrous umbrages: what he most fears, next to the deadly serpent, are human witchcrafts.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877