Painting, then, for the reasons already assigned and insisted on, was the art demanded by the modern intellect upon its emergence from the stillness of the Middle Ages.
On the second day he spent nineteen shillings on nothing whatever, and Ruth insisted on his having tea with herself and Nellie at their boarding-house; for which of course he had to pay, while his own tea was wasting next door.
Men insisted on taking their papers from them and paying for them on the spot.
Some persons referred to the quarter as a slum, and ironically insistedon its adjacency to the Wesleyan chapel, as though that was the Wesleyan chapel's fault.
From that day forward, Lancelot was made free of the house, and Arthur insisted that he should be asked to every function, however great or small.
Anderson insisted upon a post-mortem examination, but was laughed out of countenance by the officious M.
But, Miss Banks, you are wanted in Chicago," insisted Anderson.
Well, he runs the barber shop, too," insisted the girl.
The township trustee--whatever his name is--for a long time insisted that he must appoint a teacher from Tinkletown and not an outsider.
Then she sang and played for him, gave him some refreshments, finally insisted on carrying his wheel to the door, and her servant accompanied Vivalla to his boarding-house.
He received a small salary for his services and the perquisites of what profit he could derive from purchasing candies on his own account to sell to their younger customers, and, as usual, his father insisted that he should clothe himself.
Arrangements had been made to exhibit the bears in Connecticut and Massachusetts during the summer, in connection with the Museum, and Adams insisted that Barnum should engage him to travel for the season and manage the bears.
A few weeks before Howard Paul had left them in disgust, because they insisted on smoking when his wife was on the stage.
It is but just to say, however, that she frequently remonstrated with Barnum and declared that the expenses ought to be deducted from the proceeds of the concert, but he always insistedon doing what he called his share.
In 1849 the Society insistedthat he should deliver the annual address.
Each man insisted upon taking a lighted candle to his room, and the whole thirty-six of them undressed and went to bed as though they proposed to stay all night.
Barnum remained inexorable until the chief finally brought a new buckskin Indian suit, which he insisted upon exchanging.
They were then living in Dresden, but Madame Goldschmidt hadinsisted on his hurrying over to England to see her old manager, and ascertain whether he really was in want.
At least a score of them invited him to breakfast with them the next morning, but he declined, until one young gentleman insisted on personal grounds.
General Garfield insisted that the delegates had acted within their rights, and appealed to Mr. Conkling to withdraw his resolution, which he finally consented to do.
It will be remembered that the Senate had insisted that officers of the Cabinet should be excepted from the operation of the Tenure-of-office Act, and the House had insisted that they should not be excepted.
The point of courtesy was strongly insisted upon by Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Hendricks and other members.
General Grant with his characteristic energy insisted that "active and continuous operations of all the troops that could be brought into the field regardless of season and weather were necessary to a speedy termination of the war.
Mr. Hooper of Massachusetts magnified the financial achievements of the Government, urged the policy embodied in the bill, and insisted on the importance of restoring the currency to a sound condition at the earliest practicable moment.
He now repeated this statement from the chair, but Ohio insisted and New York assented.
They insistedthat nothing remained but to recognize them as restored to their old position.
Hence the privilege of navigating the Mississippi (so earnestly desired by the British Government) could not beinsisted on, since the river from its source to the sea was wholly within the territory of the United States.
It was an exceptional form of appointment; but when the date was reached, President Johnson insisted that the new Secretary should assume the duties of the office.
He insisted that "so long as eleven of the old States remain unrepresented in Congress, no new State should be prematurely and unnecessarily admitted to a participation in the political power which the Federal Government wields.
He insisted on fair dealing, and suppressed all interference with voters by violence or threats of violence on the part of the late rebels.
He wanted to send chocolates, but I insisted on synonyms.
That organization imposed a label on all bread made in the Ghetto, and insisted that all the bakers should handle only bread of that brand.
But the sadness of Zunser's poetry is lightened by its spontaneity and by the felicity of verse and music, and the naive idea in each poem is never too solemnly insisted upon for popular poetry.
The real cause was that the management of the theatre, with the energetic Thomashevsky at the head, insisted that the actors should be prompt at rehearsals, and if they were not, indulged in unseemly epithets.
On receiving a reply in the affirmative, as if doubtful of what I had said, he insisted on my reciting a couplet of the former language.
In the negotiations which followed, Mahomed Shah insistedupon Pottinger’s dismissal.
Except when Mahomed Shah insistedon a combined assault, as on the 24th of June, and the Russian minister directed it, there was no union among them.
The large indemnity insisted upon by Russia drove the Persian financiers to extremities, and reduced them to all kinds of petty shifts to meet the extortionate demand.
He had insisted that it was the wisest policy to support the existing rulers, and to encourage the disunion among them.
It will be worse if you don't," insisted the broker.
An inveterate bridge player, she insisted on Laura staying, if only to learn the game.
Yes, they are," he insisted angrily; "angels and all.
Oh, yes, there is," insisted Elfie, shaking her head sagaciously.
Mrs. Williams, impressed with the visitor's talents and aristocratic appearance insisted on his staying to dinner, which cordial invitation he politely accepted.
He insistedalso on their financial arrangements, being kept on a strictly business basis.
Cecilia insisted upon hearing what he meant, and, after some hesitation, he hinted that there were means by which, with very little inconvenience, she might borrow the money.
Another registrant who was believed by the board to be above draft age insisted that he was not, and in stating that he was not married, explained that he "wanted only one war at a time.
He insisted and at length prevailed upon his captain to make the attempt, which was successful.
Jimmie clung to the machine and insisted that Ned was chasing the Milky Way when he lifted the aeroplane up the level of the divide.
Two of them even insisted on starting back to the rough shanty and preparing dinner.
They didn't set it, I tell you," insisted Liu, speaking as if in the defense of his employers.
No one said anything, however, till Laurie, who insisted on serving the bride, appeared before her, with a loaded salver in his hand and a puzzled expression on his face.
Meg always insisted upon it that the kiss won the victory; for after it was given, Demi sobbed more quietly, and lay quite still at the bottom of the bed, whither he had wriggled in his anguish of mind.
Mr. Brooke sent a bulletin every day, and, as the head of the family, Meg insisted on reading the despatches, which grew more and more cheering as the week passed.
When she was a baby, Jo had accidentally dropped her into the coal-hod, and Amy insisted that the fall had ruined her nose forever.
Meg, smoothing the silvery folds of her first silk dress; for Mr. Laurence had insisted on giving it.
Not a word did she say, however, till her mother found her in tears one day, and insisted on knowing what the matter was, for Meg's drooping spirits had not escaped her observation.
Other writers have insisted on the superb chances for gorgeous processions and the surging splendor of multitudes.
We insisted that every work of art must be somehow separated from our sphere of practical interests.
From a near-by spring he brought us a bright, new pail full of clear, sparkling water, but Mrs. Louderer insistedupon tea and in a short time he had it ready for us.
After making sure there were no moths in them, I spread blankets over them and put a sleepy, happy little girl to bed, for he had insisted on making molasses candy for her because they happened to be born on the same day of the month.
The boss insisted on taking the trail of his valued horse.
Rose insistedupon seeing Miss Barbara herself, and she was shown into a parlour to the young lady, who was reading a dirty novel, which she put under a heap of law papers as they entered.
He promised him that he should have half of whatever the Jew would give for the diamonds, and Piedro insistedupon being present at the transaction.
But Alice was the "star," according to Baldy Johnson, who insistedon being her instructor.
Those are the rules," insisted the forewoman, and she would not go out on the fire escape until Russ, Paul and Mr. Pertell had preceded her.
Bye and bye, home came the lady of the house from the bath, and no sooner did she see what the children had been about, than, with many screams and exclamations, she insisted on the young snakes being carried back again.
I insistedon having the men bastinadoed on the very spot where the outrage had been committed; the consequence was, that after some little demur, I carried the day, and they were punished as I had directed.
On my partial recovery, they insisted on my taking up my abode at their mansion at Hampstead; and owing to their kind attentions and recherché fare, I soon recovered my strength.
He was an early riser himself, and insisted on all his household following this healthful practice: his maxim was that sleep was for the dark hours of the night—work and recreation for the light—prayers and thanksgivings for all seasons.
She insisted upon drawing on this for the amount necessary to settle the bills of Louis.
Mr. Mason, the gentleman in whose name the note had been written, and who fortunately happened to be the sheriff of the county, insisted upon accompanying him back to the cottage, and aiding him to discover its mysterious purpose.
She insisted on bleaching it also, and flew about among the long grass, with her bright watering pot, like a living flower sprung up in the wilderness.
Mrs. Gleason came to relieve Helen from the care of nursing, and insisted upon her immediate return home.
She insistedupon his eating part of the strawberries, but he refused, and as they walked home, he gathered green leaves and flowers, and made a garland round them.
Her frantic opposition to being taken up stairs confirmed this belief, and he insisted on his wife's conveying her to her own room and giving her an anodyne.
Mrs. Anderson had insisted upon her having her breakfast in bed, and she had yielded readily.
Sometimes he insisted upon her going out to the stable and sniffing in the coach by way of evidence, and she would sniff admiringly and unenviously.
With the extra, Mrs. Carroll insisted upon buying a new hat for Charlotte.
Had we insisted on a concession of antecedent right, it may not misbecome us, either as moralists or politicians, to consider what Grimaldi could have answered.
But they should, say their opponents, have insisted upon more; they should have exacted not only, reparation of our honour, but repayment of our expense.
He severely censured Mr. Taylor's book, in which the principles of Paulus were explained and insisted on with much gratuitous indelicacy.
Morrison, who with an Englishman's love of justice and constitutionalism had insisted that there was only one thing for the President to do--to be bound by legality to the last no matter what it might cost him.
For although constitutional government is insisted upon as the sole solution, he speedily shows that this constitutionalism will depend more on the benevolence of the dictator than on the action of the people.
Japan insistedthat the boundary question and the railway and mining questions be settled at the same time.
Coming to a fork in the road they insisted on going to the right.
The smaller party consisted of the young men, who, anxious for a fight, insistedthat by running McPhail had brought disgrace upon himself which could be wiped out only by blood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
