The latter had of course noticed Peter's imperiousness and malignity; but he did not understand it, nor ask the reason for it, for he really gave the matter very little thought.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
For a time Aunt Barbara turned a deaf ear to what she was saying, thinking only of Ethie, gone; Ethie, driven to such strait, that she must either run away or die; Ethie, the little brown-eyed, rosy-cheeked, willful, imperious girl, whom she loved so much for the very willful imperiousness which always went hand in hand with such pretty fits of penitence, and sorrow, and remorse for the misdeed, that not to love her was impossible.
"Ethelyn's Mistake"
Mary Jane Holmes
"I was very tired of standing," the girl promptly returned, "and of waiting, too"-with a certain imperiousness in her tone.
"The House by the Lock"
C. N. Williamson