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Example sentences for "pressingly"

Lexicographically close words:
presses; presseth; pressgang; pressgangs; pressing; pression; pressit; pressman; pressmark; pressmen
  1. She dreaded lest Prince Wladomir might still more pressingly assail her, and perhaps deprive her of the throne.

  2. He surrendered at discretion, and pressingly entreated quarter.

  3. We are mainly dependent upon importation not only for the most pressingly necessary of our medicines but for that absolute necessity of life, salt.

  4. Under ordinary circumstances he might truthfully have pleaded that the work he was thus laying out for her was really and pressingly necessary.

  5. Bade farewell to Long Island, and my much esteemed friends, the Wheelers, who pressingly invited me to stay longer.

  6. Indeed, nowhere is such a harmonizing view more pressingly demanded than in universal history; and it can be attained only by recognizing the positive existence, in which that negative element is a subordinate and vanquished nullity.

  7. Now, I have given you my mind, because you so pressingly requested me to do it, as honestly as human language will allow me to do.

  8. At last, he opened his lips, but it was again pressingly to request me to settle the difficulty with the archbishop among ourselves, and to discharge him of that responsibility.

  9. Pierre had leant forward on seeing Laveuve's eyes open, and he spoke to him tenderly, telling him that he had come from a friend with a little money to enable him to buy what he might most pressingly require.

  10. This State was in perpetual rivalry with Florence, and sought to bar her from access to the sea, the command of which was now more pressingly needed than before.

  11. Meanwhile Boniface was pressingly urging Charles of Valois, the king's brother, to march into Tuscany from France, and Charles II.

  12. However, notwithstanding all his excuses, he failed to appease the King of England, who continued to entreat him so very pressingly that, at his request, the Proctor at last received a pardon and so returned to his own home.

  13. Mrs Merdle's verbs were so pressingly presented to Mr Merdle to conjugate, that his sluggish blood and his long coat-cuffs became quite agitated.

  14. Meetings there are; dinings with the Girondins: it is so pressingly essential that there be union.

  15. Where one is much pleased, one generally pleases; and accordingly I was pressingly invited to spend a few days in this little paradise.

  16. In compliance with an invitation which I had received in London, and which had since been pressingly renewed, I came hither yesterday morning.

  17. Scarcely had he observed my conversation with the young man I have mentioned, when he came up to me, and besought me pressingly to let him see what that gentleman had written in my pocket-book.

  18. Roland begged Claus and his family most pressingly to ride home with him; the huntsman refused, but Roland urged it so warmly that he at last yielded, and entered the carriage with his wife, leaving the children to walk.

  19. The English ladies asked very pressingly for a German song, but Lina, who usually was not backward, to-day was not willing to comply.

  20. He immediately wrote to Florence an account of what had happened, and urged most pressingly that the cardinal should be set at liberty without delay.

  21. Maisie knew it was fearfully awkward; she had known this now, she felt, for some time, and there was something else it more pressingly concerned her to learn.

  22. When, in a year's time, letters came from Augsburg, pressingly inviting her to the christening of a grandson, she excused herself on account of her age and infirmities which unfitted her to travel.

  23. Such arguments and others did Attilio too urge, and ever more and more pressingly as the time drew near when he must bid an eternal farewell to the eyes he adored.

  24. His benevolence took in all the objects of charity, but his discretion singled out those more particularly whose greater necessities called more pressingly upon his bounty.

  25. But whom could she mean by these last words but Don John himself, who then stood in close connexion with the Guises, whom she also recommended most pressingly to the King.

  26. He says: "My reason for writing so pressingly for the dragoon horses, was from the distress we were in.

  27. Early in October, we find him writing pressingly to General Greene and Governor Rutledge for a supply.

  28. But could Orion, the noblest of mankind, the idol of the whole town, so pressingly entreat her to do anything that was wrong?

  29. The Master, who had been busy in conversation up till that moment, turned now to respond to the pressingly affectionate advances of the unseen animal, whose cold muzzle he had felt at his wrist for some minutes past.

  30. Congress have pressingly called upon New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut for 1000 head weekly, less than which will not be more than sufficient for the immediate demands of the army.

  31. Her eldest, indeed, had done so well that the Lord Bishop of Bamberg, in his own person, had pressingly desired her late departed husband to make him a priest.

  32. Rome itself, and he pressingly urged increased activity on the inquisitors and greater zeal in their support by the bishops.

  33. He had sent a special papal commissioner to speed the holy work, and he wrote pressingly to Louis, assuming that the royal letters of protection must have been surreptitiously obtained.


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