Use indignant in a sentence
Sentences starting with indignant
- Indignant with himself, he again drew the maps toward him. [10]
Sentences ending with indignant
- At first we were surprised; then we were grieved; then we were indignant. [4]
- In short, he was informed in so many words that every tie that bound her to him must be broken in favor of another, and the hypocritical regret with which she sought to cover up the hard facts only made him doubly indignant. [10]
- I looked forward to the day when I would take you to my 'tan', and there we two would--" A flush sprang suddenly to Fleda Druse's face, then slowly faded, leaving it pale and indignant. [11]
- At the same time, she was indignant. [9]
- I dare say that in the perplexing excitement of the day he did recall for a moment with a keen thrust of regret the scene of the morning-his wife standing there flushed, wounded, indignant. [4]
- Once, when he spoke of the strike, of the foreigners, he grew quite indignant. [9]
- How a stray sentence, a popular saying, the maxim of some wise man, a line accidentally fallen upon and remembered, will sometimes help one when he is all ready to be vexed or indignant! [6]
- She was boring right into me with her eyes, and very indignant. [5]
- I should be no less indignant. [11]
- When the people found it out they were naturally indignant. [5]
Short sentences using indignant
- I was indignant. [11]
More example sentences with the word indignant in them
- I dare say you meant no harm, and perhaps you will not now be able to understand why I was so grieved at what you will probably deem such a trifle; but grieved I was, and indignant too. [14]
- There, I was wrong to be indignant in your presence,--you who seem to have spent your life in trying to get others out of difficulties. [9]
- He wandered on, wounded and indignant, and was resolved to put himself in the way of like treatment no more. [5]
- Plotinus was a worthy man, and he had been highly indignant at these instructions; it was not in his power to contravene them; but at any rate he had led the procession in person, and had not forbidden John's accompanying him. [10]
- The firm "Yes" with which she answered, and her indignant exclamation as she repulsed Hanno's premature attempt at tenderness, might have been heard by the hawk even at a greater distance. [10]
- She was indignant with the Brandon scrupulousness; it chafed her.. Was this simply because she loved her husband, or was this indignation a little due also to her liking for the world which so fell in with her inclinations? [4]
- She was indignant with the Brandon people that they should care so little about this charming life. [4]
- Her fingers, her whole body, trembled; but there was no mistaking the strong will, the indignant purpose. [11]
- The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
- It was only when the indignant orator "thundered and lightened" and was carried away by the heat of passion that he forgot his dignified moderation, and then how grandly voice, eye, and action helped each other! [10]
- Mingling with these were the angry outcries of those whom the lictors or guardians of the peace had laid hands on, or their indignant companions; and the thunder outside rolled a solemn accompaniment to the mutinous tumult within. [10]
- When the steward went to summons the musicians to his master's house he had again had no bidding for Dada, and she was very indignant at being left behind. [10]
- Though Boonda Broke was smiling, the lad's face flushed again with anger, for the man's real character had been revealed to him on the instant, and he was yet in the indignant warmth of the new experience. [11]
- The stout man was sitting with his rubicund moon-face towards the architect, who, indignant as he was, would have gone straight up to him with swift decision, if, before entering the second room, a low but pitiful sob had not fallen on his ear. [10]
- We pushed along, unheeding its fiery signal to bring to; and declining, she let fly a swivel loaded with grape, and again another, riddling our sail; but we were travelling with wind and tide, and we soon left the indignant patrol behind. [11]
- Nitetis looked up uneasily into his indignant face, and stammered in blind obedience, 'I curse. [10]
- She was ready to throw herself at his feet and implore him to control himself, to guard himself against further wrong-doing--but she maintained her proud dignity, and the eyes that met his were not less indignant and defiant than his own. [10]
- I shall speak to him myself," said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this little Natasha as grown up. [2]
- The demolition had to be accomplished in the night, under a guard of soldiers, so indignant were the populace. [4]
- At length, when they had played a great many rubbers and drawn pretty freely upon the case-bottle, Mr Quilp warned his lady to retire to rest, and that submissive wife complying, and being followed by her indignant mother, Mr Swiveller fell asleep. [12]
- In spite of the vehement and indignant tones in which his lodger spoke, the senator remained perfectly calm, and presently went away to ask his wife whether she by chance, while he was asleep, had opened the house to the missing woman. [10]
- The souls of the slain would have carried the news of the deeds he had done even to Hades; and if Tarautas were to come and fetch him away, he would be met below by legions of indignant shades--a hundred thousand! [10]
- She felt herself the richer by a painful experience, indignant, and offended. [10]
- In face of the raids, which coincide with the coming of the moon, London is calm, but naturally indignant over such methods of warfare. [9]
- The conductor said the most outrageous things, and Georgie pretended to be very indignant, too, and gave him the tickets under protest. [9]
- She was all the more indignant when, soon after, Barbara gave half the new wealth to the Prebrunn town clerk to distribute among the poor journeymen potters whose huts had been burned down the previous night. [10]
- The shouts of the indignant multitude had rung in their ears, and, in spite of her warning, they had sounded like a terrible threat. [10]
- Angry and uneasy, the indignant mother hastened to Ani, and implored him to keep Nefert at home by force; but the Regent wished to avoid attracting attention, and to let Bent-Anat set out with a feeling of complete security. [10]
- She had heard the alien spoken well of by some people; others had seemed indignant that the Armours should try to push "a red woman" into English society. [11]
- First, the indignant surprise of a generous nature, when it comes unexpectedly into relations with a mean one. [6]
- His fellow-clergymen called, some to express sympathy and encouragement, more of them to voice in person indignant and horrified protests. [9]
- Stung by the slanderous report of an anonymous eavesdropper to whom the government of the day was not ashamed to listen, he had quitted Vienna, too hastily, it may be, but wounded, indignant, feeling that he had been unworthily treated. [6]
- Our leeches extract salves from bitter gall and deadly poisons; and folks like these--" "Hatred speaks in thee," said the haruspex, interrupting the indignant old man. [10]
- She carried herself rippingly without the blanket, and I never saw a more beautiful hand in my life--but one," he added, as his fingers at that moment closed on hers, and held them tightly, in spite of the indignant little effort at withdrawal. [11]
- As her thoughts ran on, the indignant tears would spring to her eyes, and she would spit out fierce little ejaculations at intervals. [5]
- He was not prepared for Dyck's indignant outburst. [11]
- Had she not praised him, and defended him, and become indignant when I spoke my mind about him? [9]
- But when she perceived that he purposed involving his father in the Magian's snares by calling up his mother's Manes, she could no longer be silent, and she broke out with indignant warning: "Leave my father alone, Philip! [10]
- If the bill passed, he declared, the men who voted for it, the men who were behind it, would ultimately be driven from political life by an indignant public. [9]
- Phanes, furious with pain and rage, led on his heavy-armed troops, indignant too at the brutal barbarity of their countrymen, and dashed into the ranks of those very soldiers, whose love he had tried to deserve during ten years of faithful leadership. [10]
- Dada had no other presentable garment, so, in spite of her indignant refusal and many tears, she had to remain indoors with Papias. [10]
- Behind them came Orpheus, now and then throwing out a persuasive word to soothe the indignant matron. [10]
- Sincerely indignant, she ordered him to go away at once, but her first words were interrupted by the shrill voice of the marquise, who had now left her litter, and with loud shrieks ordered the steward to seize the burglar. [10]
- When serious men of the people like Mr. Redbrook and that nice Mr. Jenney at Leith and a lot of others who do not ordinarily care for politics are thinking and indignant, I have come to the conclusion there must be a cause for it. [9]
- The swift throbbing of her indignant heart made it impossible for her to think calmly, but its vehement pulsation reminded her of the object of her presence here. [10]
- Ah, you do not know how discipline gets into a man's bones, the pride, the indignant pride of obedience! [11]
- The ancestor need not be indignant with his descendants when they use the language of their new home, so long as they continue to act in accordance with his spirit. [10]
- I give you my word of honor that I have never been so indignant in my life. [9]
- And this, it must be observed, or the illustration would be incomplete, although in a business point of view she had the strongest sympathy with Mr Sampson, and would have been beyond measure indignant if he had thwarted their client in any one respect. [12]
- He had been more indignant than any of them, at first, but he had an unusual sense of justice when he got face to face with it, as Richard had here helped him to do. [11]
- It was the look of the great when they are justly indignant, when their trust--nobly given--has been betrayed. [9]
- When Charmian at last approached to encourage her, it was too late; the indignant Queen had turned away, exclaiming to Iras: "let her be taken back to Lochias. [10]
- It is an insult to Cleopatra--" But here an indignant "Again! [10]
- I didn't get indignant over it, as I do now when I think of it. [9]
- Paragraph from some indignant Englishman in the Pall Mall Gazette who pays me the vast compliment of gravely rebuking some imaginary ass who has set me up in the neighborhood of Rabelais; 3. [5]
- She was deeply indignant at the affront her husband had put upon her. [10]
- She started up, indignant and deeply wounded. [10]
- He grew hot in thinking of it, indignant at his relations and the whole artificial framework of things. [4]
- Mr. Emerson believed in pie, and was almost indignant when a fellow-traveller refused the slice he offered him. [6]
- Every rebellious atom in my blood sprang to indignant action. [11]
- The crowd grew impatient, and by and by indignant and rebellious. [5]
- In the same hour Ranulph heard a piece of hateful gossip which made him fell to the ground the man who told him, and sent him with white face, and sick, yet indignant heart, to the cottage in the Place du Vier Prison. [11]
- She put that horribly cruel and selfish thought away from her with an indignant word at herself. [11]
- He gave her his version of some recent transactions that had been commented on in the newspapers, and she was indignant over the insinuations about him. [4]
- The Marshal signs his name, Mr, Ballington trying not to look indignant as he makes for the door. [9]
- Once, shortly after his marriage, when he had come home in wrath after a protracted quarrel with Mr. Tredway over the orthodoxy of the new minister, in the middle of his indignant recital of Mr. Tredway's unwarranted attitude, Sarah Austen had smiled. [9]
- The priests reproached him with this, alleging that such a life was not suited to a monarch; and on one occasion he had thus replied to the indignant high-priest: "Look at this bow! [10]
- The prisoner seemed highly indignant, and the less his broken Greek oaths and his utterances in some other totally unintelligible language were understood by the Egyptian guards, the more violent he became. [10]
- Lagroin looked at her in indignant astonishment. [11]
- Good evidence was handed in time and time again that the young men had come and gone, and red-faced commanding officers cursed indignant subalterns, and implied that Beauty had had a hand in it. [9]
- Old Damia, however, had listened attentively to her indignant torrent of words, and had only shrugged her shoulders with a scornful smile at the implied accusation of herself. [10]
- Those five months had brought a change in her, had made her indignant at times against Rudyard. [11]
- As I made for the door, burning and indignant, I felt as tho' every eye in the room was upon me. [9]
- And then I felt the indignant blood rise to my cheek at this libel upon the Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal--perfectly equal--perfectly free and perfectly equal. [5]
- He made his escape by a window and sought my grandfather in the Duke of Marlboro' Street as fast as ever his indignant legs would carry him. [9]
- He came striding down toward me, and when he was come near he began to pour out a stream of indignant Italian; then suddenly took off his hat and made that beautiful bow and said: "Oh, it is you! [5]
- Mrs. Bennett presently discovered that her hosts were not hearing a word she was saying; so she got up, wondering and indignant, and went away. [5]
- Somehow, nothing Carnac did changed Junia's views of him, or surprised her, though he made her indignant often enough. [11]
- In six days--seven days--one short week--noble France, grateful France, indignant France, would be thundering at these gates--let us count the hours, let us count the minutes, let us count the seconds! [5]
- But Edith was crying now, with a heart both hurt and indignant. [4]
- She was indignant by the time she reached Locust Street. [9]
- Alice was indignant, but she did not think it wise to make too much of the incident. [4]
- Surprised and indignant, but perfectly calm, Herr Ernst had requested him to tell him whatever he had to say at a more convenient time. [10]
- Like a good British maid, she was angry at the defeat of the British, she was indignant at her lover's failure and proud of his brave escape, and she would have herself believe that she was angry at Iberville. [11]
- If he had been told that he neglected his wife he would have been justly indignant. [11]
- Revolutions never go backward, and when founded on a great moral sentiment stirring the heart of an indignant people their edicts are irresistible and final. [7]
- She had choked back the indignant words which had rushed to her lips as she left the tent where she had been lying. [11]
- Francois did not attend Mass, and such strange scandalous reports had reached the Cure that he was both disturbed and indignant. [11]
- Captain Debney, indignant at the lack of etiquette, and a little suspicious also now--for there was no Hornet in the Pacific Squadron, though there was a Hornet, he knew, in the China Squadron--was coming to visit the discourteous commander. [11]
- Susan, naturally indignant at such ingratitude, denied this. [9]
- She was indignant at herself that she had torn up the letter. [4]
- She was indignant at herself as she thought of it. [4]
- Angered or indignant at her treatment of him, Roscoe's affections declined unworthily elsewhere. [11]
- But, if you are indeed indignant at the scorn and heart-ache inflicted on your lord's wife, make it known in the Circus to him who has brought them on her. [10]
- He fancied something appealing in the look that the old man turned on him, and something indignant in Conrad's flush; but probably this was only his fancy. [8]
- Everybody was puzzled, and nineteen couples were surprised and indignant. [5]
- He is disgusted and indignant to the last degree at seeing "Mr. Quelconque" chosen over the illustrious statesman who was his favorite candidate. [6]
- She was hurt and indignant at this, and said: "It is not true. [5]
- They were shocked and indignant at first, but when the first scene had been faced they began to make the best of things all round. [11]
- Billy was excited, and apparently indignant. [11]
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