He had been insistentthat he would not leave his mother, and Mrs. Butler was fully as insistent that he should accompany his companions on their coming journey.
I thought that Fellows ought to do it, but Charlie was so insistent that I told him to go ahead with it.
He paused a moment and passed his hand across his brow as if to chase away the bitter and insistent recollection of that crime of which he had been the chief instigator.
From the house itself--as Diogenes stood somewhat doubtfully before it--there came the pungent odour of fried onions, and from the one next door an equally insistent one of damp leather.
While he went on mumbling in his feeble querulous voice, Diogenes had been pacing up and down the floor apparently struggling with insistent thoughts.
She seemed to see him everywhere, and she had to close her eyes to chase away that all too insistent vision.
She feigned not to have noticed the purport of his words and continued with the same insistent eagerness: "Torn with anxiety, sir, he will be ready with a rich reward for one who would bring his only daughter safely home to him.
His earlier love for her, smothered by ambition, rose up at once more strong, more insistent than before; it became during all these months of renewed intrigues and plots the one ennobling trait in his tortuous character.
Her thoughts at present were still chaotic but gradually she was sorting them out, one or two becoming more clear, more insistent than the rest.
The lamp outside the hostel at the corner illumined for a moment Gilda's pale, wearied face, and Diogenes saw that she was trying her best to suppress an insistent outburst of laughter.
She had now to confront and solve the insistent problem of manning her decimated armies.
People often said it was a case of Greek meet Greek, and that two such insistent personalities were inevitably bound to clash.
The feeling is insistent here which has been ever-present since we entered this valley of the Peace--here is the home prepared and held in waiting for the people who are to follow.
There is a limit to every one's scientific research, and, personally, until insistent hunger gnaws at my vitals and starvation looms round the edge of the next iceberg, I draw the line at muskrat and am not ashamed to say so.
As the awkward suitor became more insistent Mademoiselle was seized by a determination to be rid of him.
So far from being genuinely submissive, they are states in which the self is making a violent and insistent demand for justification or social recognition.
Here is a young person (either sex), in the twenties, with insistent sex impulses, tempted to yield to the fascination of some mediocre representative of the other sex.
Above all, she was insistent that the dying should receive the consolations of religion, and it was a terrible thought to her that either friend or foe should perish unshriven and unassoiled.
He arose and walked about the room, pausing now and then in front of the clock to listen to the insistent ticking.
Tom, still more sleepily, and then, as the chums lapsed into silence, there sounded the loud and insistent ticking of the battered alarm clock.
This betrayed the unconscious dream agent as being one of the insistent gnawing wishes of the aging man.
I resolved that if this insistent dream should come again, I would throw it off and shout: 'This is only a make believe.
I had reached a point where I dodged Mr. Rolfs and Mr. Millington when I saw them, in order to avoid their insistent clamour for chickens, when one evening Isobel met me at the door with a smile.
I believe there was hardly a crime or misdemeanour that he did not lay at the door of our Mr. Prawley, and so insistent was he that Isobel and I had ceased to speak of him as living in our attic.
VIII The most insistent memory of my life in Passy at the Hôtel Féminine is the Battle of the Somme.
As he opened it, the sound of a woman's voice, thin, yet insistentand rasping, came out to meet her.
He could scarcely interrupt Lady Wolfer by a too-insistent restoration of the blossom.
The paneling about it is very simple, but the proportions are interesting, and the quaint, double-panel cupboards on each side lend the whole an insistent charm.
But in spite of all these unattractive features, there was an insistent appeal about the old place that made it seem worth venturing to restore.
But a little later she had the house to herself, and the hope came back again and asked the insistent question.
She was just the little daughter she had wanted all her days--to stay with her when the insistent world snatched her boy from her.
Habits by themselves are too organized, too insistent and determinate to need to indulge in inquiry or imagination.
Those who were compelled to obey them were most insistent to carry with them, at whatever risk to their own mobility and safety, an officer to whom they were devotedly attached.
Of the two, Russia was more insistentbecause her interests made the control of the exit from the Black Sea imperative for her.
Hanaud had been so insistent that the woman with the red hair was to be found in Geneva, had so clearly laid it down that a message, a telegram, a letter from Aix to Geneva, would enable him to lay his hands upon the murderer in Aix.
The thought of the concierge at the bottom of the stairs, insistent for the rent, frightened her.
In little journeys, branchward from the nest, A mother bird, with sweet insistent cries, Urges her young to use their untried wings.
There was a touch of boyishness that appealed, a touch of insistent masterfulness that alarmed.
Now that the days of suffering were as they had not been, insistent questions dinned in her ears: was she entitled to the joys to come?
Would it all change back again if he were to lessen theinsistent pressure on the hand in her lap.
But the girl's insistent friendliness troubled him.
The sight of John and Mary, the sound of their gay young voices, their insistent claim upon the general attention, had brought home to her the absence of the one great interest in her own home.
I may have been at the table an hour when I began to have the insistent feeling of someone in particular standing at my back.
While I lay waiting to do so the insistent ache of my bones, the racking of my wound and the sodden numbness of my brain, slowly blurred me into apathy.
But the children were so insistent and so circumstantial in their story that the older heads wavered and returned on the following evening.
I am only sorry that we yielded to Mrs. Caswell's insistent urging that we exclude you from the card club this summer.
The whole foreign non-Christian world is knocking with incessant, insistent clamor at our church door.
Its knocking at our front door is growing louder in its insistent earnestness.
Wherever they find out that there is a knowledge of God to be gotten, from there comes the insistent knocking that it be brought to them.
I was offered a number of propositions, but Mr. Hilliard was soinsistent and made such substantial inducements that I finally placed the business with him.
He wished to impress Mildred with the fact that if he had not quite succeeded, he had by no means failed; but she listened indifferently, with the air of humoring an insistent child.
So, for good or ill to himself, Harry made his momentous decision, and as if it had been a signal, at the same instant there came the quick, insistent ringing of the telephone on his desk.
And yet beneath her dread and apprehension there had come to her in her struggle the awakening of something as deep and imperative as her love--the insistent "Thou shalt!
During that silent, insistentgaze it had come to him with a strange glow of excitement what Brent intended to say.
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