He never spoke afterwards, though frequently importuned to describe his complaints.
He had sent her letters and rings, and made many tenders of his affection to her, and importuned her with love in honourable fashion: and she had given belief to his vows and importunities.
In all of them, he touched upon the points at issue between them, and importuned Mather to communicate his views, fully, as to one seeking light.
Although frequently importuned to prepare a new edition, I was unwilling to issue, again, what I had discovered to be an inadequate presentation of the subject.
Arriving in that city the distinguished Carl Czerny, pupil of Beethoven, was importunedto take the lad.
Having no money of his own, the father importuned his employer, the Prince, who rather smiled at the thought of spending time and money on such an elfin-like child.
Notwithstanding the scanty folds of the cassock, they importuned him still.
To-night, importuned as he had been by scenes and emotions quite other than ecclesiastical, Julius literally sought refuge in his cassock.
She begged him, she importuned him, to listen to reason, to be guided by her, to fight the wildness that had obsessed him, to make sure that she would not be left alone.
It seemed the more gold Jim acquired the more passionate he became, the more he importuned Joan, the more he hated Kells.
Jim cautioned Joan to rest, and importuned her and promised to watch while she slept.
He had sent her letters and rings, and made many tenders of his affection to her, and importuned her with love in honorable fashion; and she had given belief to his vows and importunities.
During this interval, several of our gentlemen passed us, at which they shewed great uneasiness, and importuned me so much to order them back, that I was at last obliged to comply.
They importuned us much to go towards their coast, letting us know, as we understood them, that we might anchor there.
When they importuned him, that mutterer of prayers went far off and remained on the north side of the Himalayas, muttering prayers.
Then Guhachandra, being importuned by that Brahman, told him with afflicted mind her whole story.
This wicked woman, when she saw him, rose up from your side, and eagerly importuned him, and the virtuous man did not consent to her proposal.
There he was tortured with the pain of love, and when his parents persistently importuned him to tell them the cause of his distress, he informed them by the mouth of a friend.
Then that goddess, beloved of Siva, importunedhim eagerly because she was proud in soul on account of his affection.
And the lady importuned him to tell her how he acquired so many elephants every day, and who he was.
Our friend William, of whom I have said nothing a great while, had a great mind one day to go on shore, and importuned me to let him have a little troop to go with him, for safety, that they might see the country.
William's sister importuned us daily to come to England, and wondered we should not dare to trust her, whom we had to such a degree obliged to be faithful; and in a manner lamented her being suspected by us.
Importuned for help, the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes supplied these planters with respectable southern blacks who met this unusual demand for labor in Connecticut.
The federal authorities were importuned to stop the movement.
For a long time southern farmers had been importuned to adopt a more diversified method of farming to offset the effects of unexpected misfortune in the cotton industry and to preserve the value of the soil.
Beggars there are none, to the credit of the city be it said; nor is one importuned by hackmen or other public servants; all are ready to serve you, but none to annoy you.
The stranger is jostled by staggering coolies, with buckets of the vilest contents, or importuned for alms by beggars who thrust their deformed limbs into his very face.
Travelers are looked upon as fair game in Spain; and still one is rather nonplused to be importuned for coppers by well-dressed strangers, and is apt to conclude that sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
It has become a habit, and strangers are importunedas a matter of course.
This writer had, some time before, importuned her for the privilege of reading the diary and using it in the preparation of his biography of Beethoven.
In the short introduction which precedes the work the author says he will accede to the request of the women who have importuned him for a rule.
But when present, they were importuned by questions of the senators, wringing from them an acknowledgment of their guilt rather than replies, and when ordered to depart from the senate, they caused a great contest.
Bo's raptures were not silent, and the instant the sun sank and the color faded she just as rapturously importuned Helen to get out the huge basket of food they had brought from home.
For the land's sakes, tell us all about it," importuned Mrs. Cass.
Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise!
Liana went to her mother, and when she felt in the hand of her darling a slight shudder, she importuned her to go out of the night-air, and would not give over till she left with her the magic spot.
It told of her trouble--importuned me to hurry to save her.
Thorne caught her, and in husky voice importuned her to bear up.
McCulloch was importuned to come forward without success.
This want destroyed the power of affluence to make him happy, and he importuned heaven with unceasing prayers.
Therefore be easy in your mind, and persuaded that far from thinking myself importuned I shall always take real pleasure in performing whatever you can desire.
Jay was importuned by Washington to take the position of Secretary of Foreign Affairs, one of the most important offices to be filled.
Progress along the King’s Road after dusk was a matter of difficulty, and at every lamp-post one was importuned by eager touters, and invitation cards thrust into one’s hand to visit this house or that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "importuned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
