Umbrage Quotes
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Beauteous the fleet before the gale; Beauteous the
multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and
crested heads: Beauteous the
garden's umbrage mild, Walk, water,
meditated wild, And all the bloomy
beds.
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More Umbrage Quotes
But see the fading many-coloured Woods, Shade deep'ning over shade, the country round Imbrown: crowded umbrage, dusk and dun, Of every hue from wan declining green To sooty dark.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Autumn (1730), line 950.
The umbrage given to Cuzzoni by her [ Faustina Bordoni's] coming hither, proves that as Turkish monarchs can bear no brother near the throne, an aspiring sister is equally obnoxious to a theatrical Queen.
charles burney— A General History of Music ([1776-89] 1935) vol. 2, page 736
