Folly of Romeo interrupting disrespectful behaviour

Usage examples of imprudence.

At a preliminary meeting of the Estates of Dauphine at Romans, the Bishop, now bereft of his patrons in the government, had, it seemed, uttered some words of imprudence.

Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of encouraging such an attachment.

It was a boat sent out in search of us by the hotelkeeper, who had guessed at our imprudence.

The worthy lady sent me a bill of exchange for fifty thousand francs, which she had happily not entrusted to the robber, and the money rescued me very opportunely from the state to which my imprudence had reduced me.

I did not care to risk by a piece of imprudence the fruit of so much toil and danger, and to destroy all traces of our whereabouts the ladder must be drawn in.

I was not foolish enough to do so, as her imprudence might have been a hanging matter for me.

The text about publicans and sinners has always been very carelessly used to justify a lot of imprudence.

Mimi remained alone with me, and I addressed her some reproaches for her imprudence.

Before we attend him to this intended interview with the lady, we think proper to account for both the preceding notes, as the reader may possibly be not a little surprized at the imprudence of Lady Bellaston, in bringing her lover to the very house where her rival was lodged.

And, even accepting that imprudence in the extremest sense, - by the more penetrating judge of the higher order of character, it will probably be considered as the magnificent folly of a bold nature, excited at once by position and prosperity, by religious credulities, by patriotic aspirings, by scholastic visions too suddenly transferred from revery to action, beyond that wise and earthward policy which sharpens the weapon ere it casts the gauntlet.

He had conceived that she might have followed her uncle into Bridgetown, or committed some other imprudence, and he turned cold from head to foot at the mere thought of what might have happened to her.

But as the imprudence or prodigality of a dying man might exhaust the inheritance, and leave only risk and labor to his successor, he was empowered to retain the Falcidian portion.

Berthelot said to him comfortingly, “If the Germans commit the imprudence of an enveloping maneuver through northern Belgium, so much the better!

And if the soul is able by its own imprudence to create for itself a new misery, which was not unforeseen by the Divine Providence, but was provided for in the order of nature along with the deliverance from it, how can we, even with all the rashness of human vanity, presume to deny that God can create new things-new to the world, but not to Him-which He never before created, but yet foresaw from all eternity?

But the imprudence of man begins many things which, savouring of present good, conceal the poison that is latent, as I said before of the hectic fever.