The lad had at first repulsed all questions as to the origin of this great change, but of late he had yielded to the importunate researches of his parents, and had disclosed the secret cause.
They obeyed his summons to a meeting with alacrity, partly from a desire to win the good graces of a victorious enemy, and partly from the importunate craving for liquor and presents, which never slumbers in an Indian breast.
With a hasty gesture, however, Monsignor Fornaro brushed this importunatesubject aside.
Yet still on Saturday evenings, the only time they can spare, my house is crowded with numbers of them, whose very countenances still carry the air of importunate petitioners for the same favours with those who came before them.
I should perhaps have waved this Undertaking, had not I been put in mind of my Promise by several of my unknown Correspondents, who are very importunate with me to make an Example of the Coquet, as I have already done of the Beau.
When the crowd became importunate and the drain upon his power had become severe, he sought the desert and in its quiet restored himself for the new labors.
The power of gratifying his appetites increases their demands; a thousand wishes crowd in upon him, importunate to be satisfied, and vanity and ambition open prospects to desire, which still grow wider, as they are more contemplated.
Uncle Sam, having hosts of importunate sons demanding recognition irrespective of merit, and being as yet barely a centenarian, is at the mercy of his clamorous and inconsiderate millions.
Perhaps Strauss only accustomed himself by degrees to the rôle of an importunate meddler, until he gradually acquired the courage of his calling.
Rey felt the irritation which every importunate being inspires, and with the air of one who brushes away a buzzing drone, he answered: "What has the French revolution to do with the robe of the Virgin?
These fat, importunate sounds redoubled as the machine rushed toward the bridge, growing up to its full staring, brazen dimensions.
They were persuaded that, from some mysterious motive, which they were unable to penetrate, their presence was often importunateand even painful to their father.
Of all our evils reason is often the worst; it frightens us in the full career of our pleasures, and with importunateremorses comes to bridle our fleet desires.
All these questions gyrated wildly in her mind, swept about, confused at finding no plausible answers to their importunate demands.
He married his wife, who was much older than himself, and whoseimportunate love soon began to annoy him, at Winchester.
In this dilemma, Francis sent repeatedimportunate entreaties to Henry to come to his rescue.
I am obliged to the gentleman,' said Edith, with a stately bend, 'for sparing me some annoyance from an importunate beggar just now.
Abe had a very quaint and original way of rendering the parable of our Lord on the importunate neighbour (Luke xi.
Nor did he omit the beautiful moral of the parable, showing the necessity of prayer, importunate prayer, prayer at all times.
He had a crown of silver paper on his head, and was trying to ward off the importunate advances of a young girl.
He took council with himself in the attempt to devise a means by which he might get rid of the importunate chatterer.
Conspicuous among the itinerant gypsies and peddlers was a woman who offered for sale long thongs fastened to the end of a stick, and was particularly importunate with Simplex.
Bartrow weighed the pros and cons for the twentieth time while the train was speeding over the ultimate mile of the long run, and finally yielded to the importunate urgings of the necessity.
In the mean time, Bartrow had an inspiration which was importunate enough to send him afoot to Alta Vista in the wake of the swinging passenger train.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "importunate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
