She demanded further information, and he merely shrugged his shoulders, for it is the way of the Spaniard to know no man’s business but his own.
He held her hand a moment and gazed solicitously into her eyes with an entire absence of humor as he tenderly demanded if she had been ill or only tired the night before, and assured her of his disappointment in being cheated of their walk.
One day it was announced to the king, that all his subjects demanded that he should marry again in order to have a son who should reign after him.
Ourson and Violette seeing her air of consternation demandedthe cause of it.
The Kentuckian left the porch and went to the edge of the mesa cliff to look down upon the flood, rising now by imperceptible gradations as the enlarging area of the reservoir lake demanded more water.
Very," said Ballard, hearing nothing save the upward inflection which demanded a reply.
Like all young people, she imperiously demanded a fresh start--to cut all this mess away, and begin again as though nothing at all had happened.
Always he demanded her kisses, although at times she had such horror of being made love to by one so ill that she was pricked by a perfect frenzy of nerves.
Whiteside he demandedof editor Francis the name of the author.
The wholesome effects of a temperate life and the horrors of war were also subjects which claimed the services of his pen then, as they in later years demanded the devoted attention of his mind and heart.
When Burr arrived at the Tennessee Capital, Jackson, his manner now cold, demanded an explanation.
The British officers demanded of Commodore James Barron to search the American ship for British deserters and to take them if found.
Learning this from the bearer of these tidings, Burr's partner, Senator John Smith, demanded of his associate an explanation.
Two weeks later the discomfited but persistent and undaunted District Attorney again demanded of Judge Innes the apprehension of the "traitor.
So the prosecution demanded his imprisonment on ex parte evidence which would be contradicted by his own evidence if he could adduce it.
One of these has survived: "Why did you not tell Judge Marshall that the people of America demanded a conviction?
He demanded that the Justice be impeached and removed from the bench.
The Chief Justice at once wrote out,[980] signed, and issued a warrant by virtue of which the desperate yet composed prisoner was at last surrendered to the civil authorities, before whom he had so long demanded to be taken.
When Marshall learned that the publisher demanded a title-page bearing his name, he insisted that this was unnecessary and not required by the copyright law.
M^{c}Rae rose as soon as he had finished, and in terms mild yet determined, demanded an explanation of it.
Jefferson had long demanded of Wilkinson a copy of the incriminating Burr letter, and this was now forwarded, together with the General's account of the arrest of Bollmann, Swartwout, and Ogden.
Burr's counsel demandedthat Marshall deliver a supplementary charge to the grand jury.
Burr then challenged Colonel Wilson Cary Nicholas,[1048] who spiritedly demanded the objections to him.
Quick to press his advantage, Burr the next morningdemanded the production of the letters called for in the subpoena duces tecum to Jefferson.
There are many who have not done this, and are consequently unable to project their mental vision so far back into the very night of time, as is now demanded for the beginning of man's first appearance on the earth.
But if this rate of change be adopted as a measure of time, what shall we say is to the antiquity demanded to explain the origin of cultivated grain from the wild grasses of their first form?
Freely admitting that we can not determine the length of time demanded for this deposition, yet none can doubt that it requires a very long time indeed.
The rapidly growing city demanded its removal in 1869.
The miscellaneous articles demanded were generally such that they bore some relation to the natural resources of the pueblo.
He had made so little advance in the scale of wisdom, he possessed so little knowledge, he was so much a creature of instinct, that, during the thousands of years demanded for this age, he made no appreciable progress.
In speaking of the length of time demanded for this change, Dr.
Then their customs demanded that the most highly prized articles should be offered up for religious purposes; besides, the tribe and the gens each came in for a share.
If the land is not uniformly prepared, then the hole dug for the tree should be larger than demanded by spread of roots, and the earth fined in the bottom of it.
He demanded the pin, and, he threatened her and finally he used rough treatment.
She cast appealing glances at him, but he was oblivious to her piteous eyes, and demanded the pin.
Mr Somerville shook me most cordially by the hand with both of his, and eagerly demanded the history of my extraordinary adventures, of which I gave him a small abridgment.
Many of the Americans, either from hatred or jealousy, went along with him, and clamorouslydemanded that the Englishman should be punished for striking an officer.
My father sternly demanded how long I had been thus honourably employed.
But I beg of you to tell me everything," demanded the other.
The British Government demandedthat a general surrender should first take place, and if that were done they would grant the Boers certain privileges, and as soon as possible Self-Government.
Amnesty to be granted for all acts done in connection with the war by burghers of both Republics and of the Colonies, and no accounts to be demanded from officers of State monies spent during the war for military purposes.
Mr Faulkland, in lover-like phrase, demanded from me the time of his destined happiness: I referred him to my mother.
I nodded to my maid to leave the room, which when she had done, I civilly demanded of the stranger his business.
I neither expect ceremony, nor tenderness from him; but the occasion of my letter demanded some notice.
This duty he zealously performed; in fact, Master Tyro would have cheerfully undertaken to take charge of the whole ship, and done his best to repel boarders, if the occasion had demanded it.
He was handy, therefore, when travelling, for he performed the duties of a light porter, and neverdemanded a fee.
Her respectability demanded a tour--to Tunbridge Wells and back, at least: indeed, it had always been to her the most prominent feature of the prospect while matrimony was yet prospective.
He has confessed his guilt to me, and demanded mercy; and I sent him to the empress, who has granted him his life, on the condition of his leaving my dominions forever.
What had I done, I demandedindignantly of myself, to deserve this wretchedness which no wealth could cure?
His Highness then demanded The eldest of the band, And clasped that horny-handed With his All-Highest hand.
As it was, even in the year 1848 a sovereign demanded that a professional exorcist should "drive the devil out of her.
He declined the suggestion, and sent word of her doings to Madame d'Agoult: Apropos of this too celebrated Anglo-Spanish woman, have you heard that King Louis of Bavaria has demanded the sacrifice of her theatrical career?
Presently, some officers galloped up and demanded me.
A thousand guns were pointed at her, and a hundred fat and apoplectic voices fiercely demanded that she should cause the repeal of what she had done.
As a result, a body of indignant tradesmen, accompanied by the Maire of the district, in tricoloured sash and wand of office complete, betook themselves to the villa and demanded a settlement of accounts for goods delivered.
This was that they represented de Beauvallon, who "demanded satisfaction for the insults he had received from M.
Is it suggested," hedemanded acidly, "that I should receive all these would-be ballerinas and put them through their paces?
Against the entreaties of her friends, she presented herself before the infuriated mob whichdemanded her life.
During, however, another domestic rupture, Heald demandedthat Lola's features should be painted out.
The French ambassador went to Ems and demanded that the Prussian king should apologize, and give a promise never to put forward a German candidate for the Spanish throne again.
But to accomplish a long march in the face of the enemy, something is demanded more than goodwill and endurance on the part of the men.
The extraordinary taxation demanded by the war already pressed heavily on the people.
Troops weredemanded from General Hunter, who had taken the last fort which defended Savannah, the port of Georgia.
He declared that such a creature should not continue a member of the Academy, and demanded that he should be tried by court-martial and expelled.
He had already demanded reinforcements from General Lee; and in anticipation of their speedy arrival their orders had been already framed.
But the exertions which had been then demanded from them were trifling in comparison with those which were to come.
But the handling of the Valley army, from the time it left Jefferson on the 25th until Longstreet reached Gainesville on the 29th, demanded higher qualities than vigilance and activity.
The qualities he demanded in his subordinates were those which were conspicuous in Napoleon.
The State had demanded its surrender, but no reply had been vouchsafed by Lincoln.
Several regiments of volunteers, who had engaged only for a short term of service, demanded their discharge, and reinforcements were slow in arriving.
At all events I was saved for the moment from choosing a drink, for three hilarious city gentlemen entered from the street just then, and demanded instant attention.
I felt instinctively that It never would give him any more; and that It had given him whatever he had, only as the result of personal sacrifices which should never have been demanded of him.
Ian rushed to the door, shut it, hurriedly took two acetylene carriage lamps from a cupboard and demanded matches.
Many human odds and ends of a military camp arrived, apparently from nowhere, and demanded to be allowed standing-room amongst the prisoners.
The king demandedan explanation, which I gave readily enough, but which did not convince him in the least.
That an influential faction, headed by Prince Toron, insisted upon an explanation being demanded from Queen Formis because of the detention of Princess Lilla by the ant-men.
The sport-loving Cupians in the field chafed under military restraint, and demanded to be returned home to their games.
Wilson, in entire ignorance of Brown's plans, demanded that the Aid Society be effectively protected against any such charge of betrayal of trust.
Clay expressed surprise that States from which few slaves escaped demanded a more stringent law than Kentucky, from which many escaped.
I sat down upon a stone, before the door of a baker's shop: the smell of hot bread tempted me in, and with a feeble voice I demanded charity.
They insisted upon knowing how I came by the garments, and demanded whether I had worn any of them myself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demanded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: imperative; indispensable; mandatory; obligatory; order; prerequisite
