"Malapert" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'rt malapert," chided her mother, descending heavily into the boat, while a mutinous young voice ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... celebrated display of the spirit and the erudition of the queen of England. Speed, the ablest of our chroniclers, gives at length her extemporal Latin reply to his harangue; adding in his quaint but expressive phrase, that she "thus lion like rising, daunted the malapert orator no less with her stately port and majestical deporture, than with the tartness of her princely checks: and turning to the train of her attendants thus said, 'God's death, my lords,' (for that was her oath ever in anger,) 'I have been inforced this day to scour up my ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... than the behoueth For it wyll turne the to grete shame For who that from his rome remoueth He is often full gretely to blame And medeleth with other in theym lame As no thynge connynge nor expert They may hym say syr malapert ...
— The Example of Vertu - The Example of Virtue • Stephen Hawes
... to the pope, were verie much releeued, and found great freendship both with him and likewise with his court. So that it may be obserued that these dishclouts of the popes kitchen haue in all ages, since their first quickening bene troublesome and mutinous, sawcie and insolent, proud[19] and malapert. But, [Sidenote: M. Pal. in suo sag.] Proh pudor! hos tolerare potest ecclesia porcos, Cm sint lasciui nimim, nimimq; superbi, Duntaxt ventri, ...
— Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) - Richard the First • Raphael Holinshed
... Characters in this little volume are of a Ballad Maker, a Tapster, a Drunkard, a Rectified Young Man, a Young Novice's New Younger Wife, a Common Fiddler, a Broker, a Jovial Good Fellow, a Humourist, a Malapert Young Upstart, a Scold, a Good Wife, and a Self-Conceited ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various |
