But that confidence was very tremulous, ready to yield to the first rebuff.

Britten wasn't subdued by his first rebuff; presently he was at us again.

That is, I am not one who will go down at the first rebuff.

Then Patsy went over to the general store, and there she met her first rebuff.

No woman who loves pleads beyond the first rebuff.

He was dismayed by this first rebuff.

It was the first rebuff that the hero had received, and straightway his tact and ingenuity left him.

My first rebuff was from that gentlemanly philosopher from Sweden, a great friend of the Governor, you know.

He behaved very tactfully after his first rebuff ensuing on Galen's tip to me and mine to Vedia.

Of course no more was to be said, and Phil walked out, a little dashed at his first rebuff.

He thrust his hand inside her arm, timidly, it is true, ready to snatch it back at the first rebuff.

There, heedless of first rebuffs, he undertook to realize the third great object of his life, the gaining of social position.