Some brought a few land-otter and sea-otter skins to barter, but in very scanty parcels; the greater number came prying about to gratify their curiosity, for they are said to be
impertinently inquisitive; while not a few came with no other design than to pilfer; the laws of meum and tuum being but slightly respected among them.
on the very day of Janetta's Escape, as Sophia was majestically removing the 5th Bank-note from the Drawer to her own purse, she was suddenly most
impertinently interrupted in her employment by the entrance of Macdonald himself, in a most abrupt and precipitate Manner.
"Oh, I, at least, have certain thoughts and ideas, which, unfortunately, others have not," D'Artagnan replied,
impertinently.
"Tell me, please, what IS our business?" inquired a potato-masher, winking at Dorothy somewhat
impertinently. "I'm fond of little girls, myself, and it seems to me she has as much right to wander in the forest as we have."
Phil pounced
impertinently on the card that fell from it, read the name and the poetical quotation written on the back.
"'And what if I do not meet you in the fir grove?' said Ursula, a little
impertinently.
'I don't think he means it
impertinently at all,' replied Mrs Nickleby.
"She meant to be
impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be."
The Miss Steeles, as she expected, had now all the benefit of these jokes, and in the eldest of them they raised a curiosity to know the name of the gentleman alluded to, which, though often
impertinently expressed, was perfectly of a piece with her general inquisitiveness into the concerns of their family.
She spoke the last word emphatically, and with a glance
impertinently sly.
Credit me, it is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be
impertinently curious how it comes.
I am not
impertinently curious, but have a good object.