His black eyes took her in from bonnet to heels in a glance that missed nothing, that old impudent unclothing glance which always gave her goose bumps.
Scarlett nodded, a grim pleasure and pride in her adopted town filling her. As Frank said, it was a pushy, impudent place and that was why she liked it.
She hated the impudent free negroes as much as anyone and her flesh crawled with fury every time she heard their insulting remarks and high-pitched laughter as she went by.
Atlanta folks are — begging your pardon, Miss Melly — as stubborn as mules about Atlanta. I don't know why, for I always thought that town a mighty pushy, impudent sort of place.
Elizabeth had not before believed him quite equal to such assurance; but she sat down, resolving within herself, to draw no limits in future to the impudence of an impudent man.
For a moment Shae did not speak. The only sound was the cricket, chirping, chirping. " Beg pardon, m'lord, " she said at last, in a heavy wooden voice. " I never meant to be impudent" .