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Example sentences for "peremptorily"

Lexicographically close words:
pereat; peregrination; peregrinations; peregrines; peregrini; peremptoriness; peremptory; perenne; perennial; perennially
  1. Thus, as we have seen, he found in his heart arguments so peremptorily decisive, that the Count consented to live, and gave himself up to his counsels.

  2. The two young men bowed their heads before an opinion so peremptorily put forth--all discussion became impossible.

  3. But the commission came, through Early, on the day before I left the valley, and when I reported here for duty, asking to have it cancelled, the chief of artillery peremptorily refused.

  4. He meant to ask excuse later, but for the time being there was nothing for him to do except assume the captain’s rank and command to which Early had thus peremptorily assigned him.

  5. She had from the first taken exclusive care of her own room, peremptorily ordering all the maids to keep out of it.

  6. Unless you peremptorily forbid, I am going to bring on a crisis between those two.

  7. Say so to all who may ask to see me, and peremptorily refuse to bring me any card or any name or any message.

  8. It was in vain the Venetians strove to appropriate the commerce of the Black Sea and the East; their efforts were fruitless, and the closing of the Dardanelles was peremptorily declared.

  9. In all social meetings etiquette peremptorily requires that the young ladies, instead of sitting in the drawing-room, shall remain by themselves in an adjoining apartment, and not allow any young man to approach them.

  10. This was peremptorily refused, but, notwithstanding the interdiction, he came on the following day.

  11. Enraged at the delay, Leonard peremptorily ordered the porter to come on; and Blaize, casting a rueful glance at his treasures, which he perceived at a little distance in the middle of the road, was compelled to obey.

  12. His air was that of a man intent on peremptorily settling a troublesome piece of business; his strongest characteristic seemed infallibility, and his chief expression omniscience.

  13. I pleaded that I should have no opportunity to prepare my defence, and I was peremptorily told I should have the same opportunity as I had had that day.

  14. Eventually the doctor peremptorily ordered him into the hospital, and the Prison Commissioners and Visiting Magistrates were reluctantly obliged to let him save the man's life.

  15. It became so great at last that she peremptorily forbade the subject to be mentioned under her roof.

  16. Sir Cloudesley peremptorily ordered the salute to be given, or to expect all the guns of the fleet to ask the question why it had not been at once accorded.

  17. Finding Mr. Poopendyke at work over some typing one day, Mr. Pless peremptorily ordered him out of the study and subsequently complained to me about the infernal racket the fellow made with his typewriter.

  18. In either case I could not afford to have him doing it with such brazen discourtesy to me, so I rather peremptorily ordered him below.

  19. This, the eloquent gentleman peremptorily refused, until an appeal for harmony, and the suggestion that Adams' election might open to him a broader field for usefulness than that of being governor, produced the desired change.

  20. Having been thrice a candidate and once elected, however, he peremptorily declined to stand.

  21. He had bitterly resented that gentleman's interference, one day when he was peremptorily commanding the nurse to place him in a position that had been forbidden, and the endeavour to control him had made him fearfully angry.

  22. I did expressly and peremptorily forbid his acceptance of the absolute government, in the hearing of divers of my council," said the Queen.

  23. He had studiously concealed from Davison that the Queen had peremptorily and distinctly forbidden his accepting the office of governor-general.

  24. She had also distinctly and peremptorily forbidden Leicester to assume any office or title that might seem at variance with such a refusal on her part.

  25. The open and public disgrace of the Earl, which was to have been peremptorily demanded, was now to be deferred, if such a measure seemed detrimental to the public service.

  26. He failed to see the editor of the "Fraser County Democrat" and peremptorily closed the incident.

  27. In a moment they heard Thatcher's voice peremptorily demanding his motor from the steps of the entrance.

  28. These scruples were peremptorily put down, and the chief parted amicably from his subordinate, but with a sense of uneasiness, lest he had left nice and difficult work in unwilling hands.

  29. With a choked, hoarse voice the seeming maniac called peremptorily for haste.

  30. This was too much; Alexander was furious, and the schemer was peremptorily ordered to leave a sufficient investing force before the city and return with the rest of his army to the lower Rhine.

  31. The Prince reluctantly acceded to the first part of this proposal; the last he peremptorily refused, as calling upon him at once to violate the faith of treaties and the rights of hospitality.

  32. The proposal of an armistice was also peremptorily refused, and the ground on which it was offered was construed to indicate Buonaparte's conscious weakness.

  33. Although Fanny asked the young man to walk in, and snatched the lamp peremptorily from Amabel's hand, she still hesitated.

  34. Amabel--" But Abby seated herself peremptorily before the kitchen stove and extended one soaked little foot in its shabby boot.

  35. There stirred in his mind an odd feeling of annoyance with Roderick for having thus peremptorily enlisted his sympathies.

  36. But it hardly mattered, for if, as was more than probable, Miss Garland had peremptorily released her cousin, her own heart had by no means recovered its liberty.

  37. Once during the evening he had endeavoured to make his way to the private box; but as he had only a pit check to show, he was peremptorily sent back.

  38. Lynx-eyed and fox-like in his movements, Miser Farebrother had never failed to discover when Mrs. Pamflett was watching him, and on every occasion he had peremptorily sent her about her business.

  39. However, I soon acquired sufficient presence of mind to remember the main point; and I now insisted peremptorily on his making me immediately his wife, whatever might be the consequence.

  40. Steele peremptorily forbade confiscation of Indian property and discouraged any interference "with the duties of agents, or with the National Council or government of the tribes" [Steele to Captain J.

  41. Reject it, if you love me, positively--peremptorily !

  42. The council again urged Mary to escape privately, but she peremptorily refused, and forbade the subject to be mentioned again, on pain of her severest displeasure.

  43. Therefore the proposition we were to prove in the present article, that the first Christians did not believe in the doctrine of endless hell, remains peremptorily established.

  44. And an unworthy suspicion about her mother crossed her mind, and was peremptorily expelled again.

  45. Thirty years were vainly spent in the endeavour to clear up this issue, a process rendered all the more arduous by Lord Londonderry's having peremptorily possessed himself of his father's papers after death.

  46. The King, said the Duke, refused this nomination peremptorily and bitterly, but had said that, if the Duke himself pressed it, he would yield to oblige the Duke.

  47. Platt received a telegram peremptorily demanding that he come for her.

  48. Peremptorily he was ordered away from all "work" to Southern France, later to Italy for the winter and to Switzerland for the next summer.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peremptorily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    masterfully; sharply; short; shortly; summarily