Next morning another set of my acquaintance congratulated me upon my performance, with suchimportunity of praise, that I was again forced to obviate their civilities by a treat.
While the regent, divided between the royal commands, the urgent importunity of her council, and her own fears, could not venture to come to a decision, William of Orange rose and proposed the assembling of the States General.
Accordingly, he left no expedient untried to evade the persevering importunity of the states, who demanded the withdrawal of these troops; and for this end he exhausted all the resources of chicanery and persuasion.
For importunity in love, like importunity at Court, first creates its own interest and then pursues it for the favour.
Again, Jesus teaches the importance of earnestness and importunityin prayer.
He knew that on such topics he could talk agreeably enough, revealing without stress or importunity his tastes, his powers, his attainments.
The dinner-party consisted of about a score of people, and throughout the evening Peak found himself hopelessly severed from the one person whose presence was anything but an importunity to him.
With an importunity that would not be denied, he entreated for her who despaired at his side.
But I persisted with a gentle importunity in urging him to the attempt, assuring him that we would return immediately if he found the effort too much for him.
How escape from the importunity of lamentable cries and from the look of staring, sad eyes in the faces which pressed round him till he gasped for breath under the crushing weight of worlds that hung over his aching shoulders?
Almayer, roused out of his apathy by the prayers and importunity of Nina, had managed to get down in time to the jetty so as to receive the officers at their landing.
Baudricourt at first made light of her application; but her importunity and the ardour she expressed at length excited him.
By wearisome and ceaseless importunitythey induce her to embark in a mercantile enterprise.
But it assuredly would not have been the last, perhaps it might not have been the worst, if William had not had the virtue and the firmness resolutely to withstand the importunity of his most zealous adherents.
He was himself inclined to a mild and moderate policy: but he had not sufficient firmness to withstand the clamorous importunity with which such politicians as John Howe and John Hampden demanded vengeance on their enemies.
It appeared that, if Schomberg had been weak enough to yield to the importunity of those who wished him to give battle, several French companies would, in the heat of the action, have fired on the English, and gone over to the enemy.
I have (at the importunity of some Reverend friends) digested my subitane apprehensions of these distracting controversies into the ensuing considerable Questions.
Such circumstances call with peculiar importunity not less for a disposition to unite in all those measures on which the honor, safety, and prosperity of our country depend than for all the exertions of wisdom and firmness.
Their manner is reserved and their habits are selfish; they beg with unceasing importunity for everything they see.
We may smile, but surely in good-natured sympathy, at the zeal of poor ladies for a post for husbands of unrecognised merit, or at the importunity of younger sons with large families but inadequate means.
Even importunity for a subscription never makes him curt: "I am sure you will not misconstrue me, when I beg respectfully to state that your efforts will stand better without my personal co-operation.
Grant me help, that I may always show a smiling face, even though the importunity of some be keenly felt!
On such wise did the worthy lady rid herself of the importunity of the malapert rector and Ciutazza gained the shift and a merry night.
Our importunity Won her consent, but not her heart, to Edmund.
My importunity at last has conquer'd: Weeping, my father gave, and bade me read it.
One is not shocked with those loathsome cripples, so common in London, nor teased with the importunity of idle fellows and wenches, that chuse (sic) to be nasty and lazy.
But her importunity prevailed with me, and I am extremely glad I was so complaisant.
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