But still the Envoy clung to the hope that something might be evolved in our favour; and delayed, in spite of their importunities from day to day, the dreadful hour of surrender.
He had resisted the importunities of the military authorities, clamouring for surrender, until there were no provisions in store for the morrow, and no hope of replenishing our empty granaries.
Rose informed me that he never would have favoured us with his company but for the importunities of his sister Jane, who was most anxious to show Mr. Lawrence that she had at least one brother more gentlemanly and refined than Robert.
From the importunities of Hargrave, however, Laura could sometimes escape.
Laura was not without some wishes that pointed towards Walbourne; but she remembered the importunities which she had there endured, and she firmly resisted giving occasion to their renewal.
She hoped her importunities would be forgiven, as they could proceed only from the tenderest regard to her dear girl's wishes.
If I had come I must have asked you many reall pardons, for the many importunities that I should have used towards you.
For whatimportunities in his behalf Donne here makes grateful acknowledgment we have no means of determining.
After three years, he left the bishop's house to satisfy the importunities of his mother, but continued the same manner of life in her house, during the space of two years.
The necessities and importunities of his flock recalled him to Ruspa a little before his exit.
To satisfy the importunities of others, about the year 305, the fifty-fifty of his age, he came down from his mountain, and founded his first monastery at Phaium.
Neither importunities nor compulsion could prevail upon him to submit to his being elected archbishop of Lyons in 1031.
No importunities could prevail upon him to consent to be ordained priest.
Many cities desired him for their bishop; but he withstood their importunities by urging, that it was sufficient he had relinquished his dear solitude for their instruction and comfort.
King Chilperic made him count or governor of Anjou, and being overcome by the importunities of his friends, the saint consented to take a wife about the year 578.
Her face quickly clouded, as if my words had brought to her mind a greater trouble than the mere importunities of an insolent adventurer.
Doubtless," I said with indignation, "the governor does this in order to escape the importunities you would make in your father's behalf.
Petrarch departed next morning for Verona, where he reckoned on remaining only for a few days; but it was impossible for him to resist the importunities of Azzo Correggio, Guglielmo di Pastrengo, and his other friends.
She felt a reluctance to fix another day for the marriage; and the importunities of John seemed only to increase it.
On Wednesday, Mr. Hunt gave audience to several tax-gatherers, to whose importunitieshe did not listen with an overstock of complacency.
He was noble, good, magnificent, ever willing to serve his friends; a little too much so, for he oftentimes wearied the King with importunities on their behalf.
She lost no opportunity of demanding an audience at Versailles, in order to clear herself of the charge which weighed upon her, and her importunities at length were not without effect.
He had the gift of prophecy, and foretold fates; but he had also the power of assuming various shapes, which enabled him to escape from the importunities of those who were anxious to consult him.
The name of the nymph who, to escape from the importunities of Pan, was by Diana changed into reeds, out of which he made his celebrated pipes, and named them "The Syrinx.
In accordance with her heart's desire, she was providentially protected from the forceful importunities of her wooers, and became a Benedictine nun.
What humility bade her conceal, the importunities of admirers compelled her to disclose: and so her visions have been preserved, and may be read in the Vita written by her brother Eckbert, Abbot of Schoenau.
There he stands amid all the clamorous appeals and importunities of the day, and of the necessities of life; in the midst of Society and State--and as what does he stand there?
I do not in the least doubt that Don Alvaro was the undertaker of this Enterprize; and I judged what I ought to fear from him, by what his Importunities have already made me suffer.
He felt the necessity of some relaxation from the terrible strain of anxiety and care; and while seated behind the screen in a box at the theatre he was secure from the everlasting importunities of politicians and office-seekers.
He owed, he supposed, his exemption from importunities to the circumstance that his name as a candidate was but a short time before the people, and that only a few sanguine friends anticipated the possibility of his nomination.
She found she could not prevent the interview with Francis, but she did persuade her husband, and possibly Mary here joined her importunities to hers, to shave his beard.
And his importunities displeased Cato so much, that though he came but in the evening, he stayed only that night, and went away early the next morning.
I was assailed by many kind importunities to repeat my visit; but as I intended to leave Calais on the morrow, I made my best possible excuses.
This resolution was at length overcome by the importunities of his friends, and above all by the strong desire of his father to see his son's poems in print before he died.
Importunities to Congress to institute a Territorial government began in 1852.
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