What is "rebuff"

Usage examples of "rebuff".

Here indeed was a rebuff such as Augustus was little prepared for, or accustomed to.

But in the tense silence of his rebuff and then later in bed, he had felt some break just the same, as surely as if she had snipped them with a pair of shears.

Surely no seaworthy galleon had ever been outfitted for battle with the same equipage and weapons she possessed within her cache, but this fine vessel of womanly softness was rigged for a most unusual contest, the entrapment and studied rebuff of no pompous youth, but a man well versed in the art of seduction.

Thus the ambitious Island Empire cautiously felt its way towards its goal, until its rebuff elsewhere and the slowly-awakening consciousness of Australian public opinion made its rulers fearful of being anticipated by an influx of State-assisted white settlers into the north of the Commonwealth.

Sir Geoffrey Morecambe sighed in a languishing way, but turned his rebuff to good account by seizing the opportunity to ask Mr.

You must know that men of his type, accustomed as he is to being courted and flattered, are put very much on their mettle by a rebuff from any female who has not been so foolish as to pick up the handkerchief he has carelessly tossed towards them.

I propose to Arabella, risking a rebuff, or shall I address myself to the task of convincing her that I am not the incorrigible flirt she has plainly been taught to think me?

However, in the back of her mind she knew Jeremiah Gold was no gentleman, and feared he would react to such a rebuff with some audacity which would embarrass her at best and make her the speak of the town at worst.

He made no secret of the rebuff he had sustained from Colonel Belford, for his grievance clung to him like hot pitch--itching the more he meddled with it.

This rebuff he had accepted with prodigious amusement, which, not limiting itself to the immediate occasion, broke forth at intervals for above two weeks.

She began to cry, hating herself for letting his rebuff affect her so deeply.

She might be thought too forward, and invite a rebuff which would hurt more than she would find easy to accept.

She was glad he agreed, of course, and grateful, but it was an odd sense of rebuff that it was not for her.

And before an hour had passed Capitola thought herself well repaid for her sufferings from the storm and the rebuff, in having formed the acquaintance of Clara Day.

Frederic makes his pass at Catherine, who at first rebuffs him with a hard slap and then apologizes, not for rebuffing him but for hurting him by her reaction.