Landlords could insist on even shorter leases and higher rents.
Population expansion had allowed landlords to insist on shorter leases and higher rents, instead of having to choose between accepting a long lease and good rent or allowing their estates to pass out of cultivation.
Olive had to repeat the strange terms of her grandmother's will and her own positive intention not to marry Donald Harmon, no matter what the second will might insist upon--even if it left her penniless.
They insist that it is going to cost you more to buy new machinery and try out new methods of mining than the gold is worth.
Moreover, even if Olive did not like Donald sufficiently well to consider marrying him, why should she insist that she intended devoting her future to teaching the Indian children?
The Senate voted immediately to insist upon its amendments, and the House answered with a vote insisting upon its position.
In fact, it was a fatal policy to insist upon its realization at all.
Naturally enough there are free-lances among book-men, people who are a law unto themselves, and insist upon doing precisely as they like, but it will be noticed that they very rarely fly in the face of any rule in important cases.
They showed that to reach the way of authority which the Catholics insist on, as long a train of acute reasoning, and as great erudition, was requisite, as would be sufficient for a Protestant.
I shall not insist on any circumstances in my own favour.
If you insist upon it, I have no doubt that I can do all that is necessary without bad results.
One day I wanted to be extra operator, and another day I would insist upon being placed in the train dispatcher's office, and again thought I would like the general freight office, either of which was considered a fine position.
At every house we would come to he would sullenly remark that there was no use stopping, they didn't want to buy anything; and finally went so far as to insist that we make no more stops.
But I don't choose you should talk of her, and I insist on being obeyed.
During the meetings which took place at Strasburg, Margaret explained the motives which made her insist on the fulfilment of the clauses with reference to her dowry.
The mother was always saying that the goat should not stay in the house another day, but she had not the heart to insist on its banishment, the children were so fond of it.
Before you all go abroad, you are to come and spend a week or two down in my sunny Cheshire; both my aunt and I insist upon it.
I refuse to listen to a word, sir--I insist upon this preposterous affair being given up.
We have an unoccupied seat here, you see, and we all insist upon your occupying it.
And after all, why should sheinsist on postponing the marriage?
You may do so if you insist on making yourself unhappy, but you have no right to--to pass an opinion on--on the present feelings of my first husband.
I wouldn't insist if I wasn't sure that I've got something to say in plain English that you all will overlook.
The monastic societies of Oxford and Cambridge are too apt to insist on certain forms of knowledge, and to think that real wisdom is the prerogative of the few.
Americans still have "Courts of Oyer and Terminer" and still insist on the unanimity of the jury, though their judges wear no robes and their counsel apply to the cuspidor as often as to the code.
The former does not insist so much on originality of theme, if the handling be but new and clever; there are certain elementary passions and dramatic situations of which the British public never wearies.
I have to clear myself before my queen, My worshipped queen; I will maintain the rights Which thou hast given me; these rights are sacred, And I insist upon it, that my lord Retire.
Strive to move Her magnanimity; insist not now Upon your rights, not now--'tis not the season.
When there is not sufficient vitality to cause appetite, or to digest food normally, it is often necessary to insist on regular meals being taken, notwithstanding the patient's distaste for food.
Tom," said his father, sternly, "I insist on your making an apology to Monsieur Zephyrus.
We insist that the attempt to explain away every inconsistency as spurious is a sorry refuge.
Again we insist (to borrow the jargon of the modern dramatic critic) it was but a "vehicle" for popular amusement.
Gordon meekly departed without attempting to insist on his identity.
Go--go, and tell Sir Mark--insist upon his staying here.
They used to insistupon my waiting upon them, though it was not exactly in the line of my duty to sell goods.
If you insist upon it, I shall, though I had much rather you would keep the money.
Here I would insist on the strictness in this point of our analogy between the individual and the national mind.
I insist that this is distinctly and primarily a psychological problem.
The men knew that he would insist on rigid discipline and orderliness, but they knew too that on their side they might count on justice, not unmixed with generosity and affectionate regard.
The Admiral ordered Captain Humphreys of the frigate Leopard to insist on the return of these deserters.
As a rule, girls may be married before or after puberty, but the Golkars of Chanda insist on infant marriage, and fine the parents if an unmarried girl becomes adolescent.
Though it is doubtful whether this practice is advocated by the Vedas, subsequent Hindu scriptures insist strongly on it.
